Waves questions
1337 published questions with worked solutions.
- An air column in a closed organ pipe vibrating is unison with a fork produces second overtone. The vibrating air column has
- The end correction of resonance tube is 1 cm. If the shortest length resonating with a tuning fork is 15 cm, the next resonating...
- If ' ' is the length of pipe, 'r' is the internal radius of the pipe and 'v' is the velocity of sound in air then fundamental...
- The pitch of a whistle of an engine appears to drop by 30% of original value when it passes a stationary observer. If the speed...
- The displacement of a wave is given by y = 0.002 (100t + x) where 'x' and 'y' are in metre and 't' is in second. This represents...
- A stationary wave is represented by Y = 12 ( 6 x ) (8 t), where x & y are in cm and t in second. The distance between two success...
- A train sounding a whistle of frequency 510 Hz approaches a station 72 km/hr. The frequency of the note heard by an observer on...
- A set of 28 turning forks is arranged in an increasing order frequencies. Each fork produces 'x' beats per second with the...
- Two waves Y_1 = 0.25 316t and Y_2 = 0.25 310t are propagating along the same direction. The number of beats produced per second...
- The distance between two consecutive points with phase difference of 60^ in wave of frequency 500 Hz in 0.6 m. The velocity with...
- A string A has twice the length, twice the diameter twice the tension and twice the density of another string B. the overtone of...
- A progressive wave of frequency 400 Hz. is travelling with a velocity 336 , m s . How far apart are two points which are 60^ out...
- A standing wave with number of loops is produced on a string fixed at both ends. Which one of the following statements is correct?
- Two waves of same frequency (n) are approaching each other with same velocity, v=20m/s and interfere. The distance between two...
- In resonance tube experiment, the first and second resonance are heard when water level is 24.1 cm and 74.1 cm respectively,...
- Consider the following statement about interference of light (a) The interference fringes are equally bright and equally spaced...
- A pipe P_c closed at one end and pipe P_o open at both ends are vibrating in second overtone. They are in resonance with a given...
- When tension 'T' is applied to a sonometer wire of length ' ' it vibrates with the fundamental frequency 'n'. Keeping the setup...
- The pitch of the whistle of an engine appears to drop by 20% of original value when it passes a stationary observer. If speed of...
- A string is vibrating in its fifth overtone between two rigid supports 2.4 m apart. The distance between successive node and...
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