Waves questions
1337 published questions with worked solutions.
- A train is moving on a straight track with speed 20 m ,s^ -1 . It is blowing its whistle at the frequency of 1000 Hz. The...
- An observer moves towards a stationary source of sound with a speed 1/5^ th of the speed of sound. The wavelength and frequency...
- Equation of a simple harmonic progressive wave is y = 0.03 8 ( t 0.016 - x 1.6 ), where all the quantities are in S.I. units. The...
- The equation of a plane progressive wave is given by, y = 3 ( t 0.02 - x 20 ). The frequency of the wave is
- The pitch of the whistle of an engine appears to drop to ( 5 6 )^ th of original value when it passes a stationary observer. If...
- The frequency of tuning forks A and B are respectively 3% more and 2% less than the frequency of tuning fork C. When A and B are...
- If the maximum particle velocity is 4 times of the wave velocity then relation between wavelength and amplitude is
- A source of unknown frequency gives 4 beats/s, when sounded with a source of known frequency 250 Hz. The second harmonic of the...
- A wave travelling along the x-axis is described by the equation y(x,t) = 0.005 ( x - t). If the wavelength and the time period of...
- The transverse displacement of a string fixed at both ends is given by y = 0.06 ( 2 x 3 ) (120 t), where y and x are in metres...
- 11 tuning forks are arranged in increasing order of frequency. Each gives 8 beats/s with previous one. If 11^ th fork is octave...
- A source and an observer move away from each other with a velocity of 10 m/s with respect to ground. If observer finds the...
- A motor cycle starts from rest and accelerates along a straight path at 2 m/s^2 . At the starting point of the motor cycle, there...
- The phase difference between two points separated by 0.8 m in a wave of frequency 120 Hz is 90^ . The wave velocity is
- A source of sound S is moving with a velocity 50 m/s towards a stationary observer. The observer measures the frequency of the...
- A source of sound is travelling towards a stationary observer. The frequency of sound heard by the observer is of three times the...
- A transverse wave is represented by, y = y_0 2 (vt - x) . For what value of , maximum particle velocity will be equal to twice...
- A man is watching two trains, one leaving and the other coming in with equal speeds of 4 m/s. If they sound their whistles, each...
- What is time interval between two successive beats, if two waves are moving with frequencies, n_1 = 320 Hz and n_2 = 325 Hz?
- Two tuning forks A and B produce 8 beats per second when sounded together. When B is slightly loaded with wax, the beats are...
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