Waves questions
1337 published questions with worked solutions.
- A vehicle starts from rest and accelerates along straight path at 2 m/s^2. At the starting point of the vehicle, there is a...
- An observer on sea-coast counts 45 waves in one minute. If the wavelength of the waves is 7 m, then the velocity of the waves...
- Two sources of sound are emitting progressive waves y_1=4 710 t and y_2=3 702 t. The sources are placed close to each other. The...
- A pipe open at both ends of length 1.5 m is dipped in water at one end such that 2^ nd overtone of vibrating air column is...
- In a pipe closed at one end, air column is vibrating in its second overtone. The column has
- The fundamental frequency of a sonometer wire is 50 Hz for some length and tension. If the length is increased by 25 % by keeping...
- When source of sound and observer both are moving towards each other, the observer will hear
- An organ pipe has fundamental frequency 80 Hz. If its one end is closed, the frequencies produced will be (in Hz) (Neglect end...
- The equation of wave is y=60 (1200t-6x), where 'y' is in micron, 't' is in second and 'x' is in metre. The ratio of maximum...
- Two waves of same frequency (n) are approaching each other with same velocity of 12 m/s along the same linear path and interfere....
- An open organ pipe is closed such that the third overtone of the closed pipe is found to be higher in frequency to 200 Hz than...
- The fundamental frequency of sonometer wire is 'n'. If the tension and length are increased 3 times and diameter is increased...
- If a source emitting waves of frequency 'F' moves towards an observer with a velocity V 3 and the observer moves away from the...
- Two sound waves travelling in the same direction have displacement y_1 = a (0.2 x - 50 t) and y_2 = a (0.15 x - 46 t) How many...
- A particle performs S.H.M. of amplitude 'A' and wavelength ' ', Then the velocity of the wave (V) and the maximum particle...
- Two identical straight wires are stretched so as to produce 6 beats per second when vibrating simultaneously with tensions 'T_1'...
- Two tuning forks when sounded together produce 4 beats per second. One of the forks is in unison with 23 cm length of sonometer...
- A pipe open at both ends produces a fundamental frequency n_1. When the pipe is kept with 3 4 ^ th of its length in water, it...
- In an open end organ pipe of length 'L', if the velocity of sound is 'V', then the fundamental frequency will be (Neglect end...
- At what speed should a source of sound move so that the observer finds the apparent frequency equal to half the original...
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