Waves questions
1337 published questions with worked solutions.
- Two vibrating tuning forks produce waves given by y_1=4 53 t, y_2=2 50 t. If they are held near the ear of a person, the person...
- Two waves of wavelength 40 cm and 42 cm produce 15 beats s^ -1 . The velocity of sound will be
- Three sources of equal intensities with frequencies 401, 402 and 403 vib s^ -1 are sounded together. The number of beats s^ -1 is
- A wave of frequency 500 Hz has a velocity 360 m ,s^ -1 . The phase difference between two displacements at a certain point at...
- A sine wave has an amplitude A and a wavelength . Let v be the wave velocity and V be maximum velocity of a particle in the...
- A wave travelling along a string is described by the equation y=A ( t-kx). The maximum particle velocity is
- The equation of a wave travelling on a string is y=8 [ 2 (4t- x 16 ) ], where x,y are in cm and t in second. The velocity of the...
- The transverse displacement y(x,t) of a wave on a string is given by y(x,t)=e^ -(ax^2+bt^2+2 ab ,xt) . This represents a
- The equation of a standing wave is y=0.2 ( 2 0.3 x ) ( 2 t 0.01 ), where x and y are in metres and t is in seconds. The velocity...
- Two waves represented by y=a ( t-kx) and y=a ( t-kx) are superimpose. The resultant wave will have an amplitude
- Standing waves are produced by the superposition of two waves y_1=0.05 (3 t-2x) and y_2=0.05 (3 t+2x) where, x and y are in...
- Sound waves of =600 Hz fall normally on a perfectly reflecting wall. The shortest distance from the wall at which all particles...
- The equation of a wave on a string of linear mass density 0.04 kg ,m^ -1 is given by y=0.02( m) [2 ( t 0.04( s) - x 0.50( m) ) ]....
- A progressive wave y=a (kx- t) is reflected by a rigid wall at x=0. Then, the reflected wave can be represented by
- The extension in a string obeying Hooke's law is x. The speed of sound in the stretched string is v. If the extension in the...
- A stretched string is vibrating in the second overtone, then the number of nodes and antinodes between the ends of the string are...
- A wire under tension vibrates with a fundamental frequency of 600 Hz. If the length of the wire is doubled, the radius is halved...
- A string fixed at both ends oscillates in 5 segments, length 10 m and velocity of wave is 20 m ,s^ -1 . What is the frequency?
- A pipe is open at both ends and 40 cm of its length is in resonance with an external frequency 1.1 kHz. If the speed of sound is...
- The frequency of the third overtone of a closed pipe of length L_c is the same as the frequency of the sixth overtone of an open...
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