Physics

Sound

Question:

Obtain a relation between speed,frequency and wavelength of a wave.

Answer:

Refer to Art.6.11,Page 330.
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Sound

Q 1.

Fill in the blanks :
v = ? × ?

Q 2.

What are the factors speed of sound wave depends upon?

Q 3.

Why do we use upholstered seats in theatres and halls ?

Q 4.

What propagates along with the waves ?

Q 5.

What are ultrasonics?

Q 6.

How is sound propagated through a material medium ? What is wave motion ?

Q 7.

Explain how sound is produced by your school bell ?

Q 8.

A sound wave travels at a speed of 339 ms–1. If its wavelength is 1.5 cm, what is the frequency of the wave?

Q 9.

What are wavefronts?

Q 10.

Fill in the blanks :
The product of wavelength of wave and its frequency gives _____________.

Q 11.

What is a wave number?

Q 12.

A man standing at 51 m from a wall fires a gun.Calculate the time after which an echo is heard.The speed of sound is 340 m/s.

Q 13.

Explain how the human ear works.

Q 14.

The sound of distant horses can be heard by applying the ear to the ground whereas it is inaudible if the ear is held a little distance above the ground.Explain.

Q 15.

Obtain a relation between speed,frequency and wavelength of a wave.

Q 16.

Sounds we hear inform us of the state of world around us,especially of that part of it which our other senses,such as touch and sight,cannot reach.Illustrate this with appropriate examples.

Q 17.

sonar emits pulses on the surface of water which are detected after reflection from its bottom at a depth 1531 m.If the time interval between the emission and detection of the pulse is 2 s,find the speed of : sound in water.

Q 18.

Explain the working and application of a sonar.

Q 19.

What travels faster : a rifle bullet or the sound of the shot fired from it ?

Q 20.

How does sound travel in gases and liquids as longitudinal or as transverse waves?

Q 21.

Distinguish between loudness and intensity of sound.

Q 22.

A boat anchor is rocked by waves whose consecutive crests are 100 m apart.If the wave speed of the moving crests is 20 m/s,calculate the frequency at which the boat rocks.

Q 23.

A ship sends out ultrasound that returns from the seabed and is detected after 3.42 s.If the speed of the ultrasound through sea water is 1531 m/s,what is the distance of the seabed from the ship ?

Q 24.

What is audible range ?

Q 25.

What is the difference between an echo and a reverberation ?

Q 26.

A person standing between two vertical cliffs and 680 m away from the nearest cliff,shouted.He heard the first echo after 4 s and the second echo 3 s later.Calculate (a) the speed of sound in air and (b) distance between the two cliffs.

Q 27.

Try to imagine what you would feel, what sort of person you would be,had you been born totally deaf.

Q 28.

What is Sound? Why it is important for us?

Q 29.

Why transverse wave does not travel through air or gases?

Q 30.

Calculate the wavelength of a sound wave having a frequency 300 Hz and speed 330 m/s.

Q 31.

Fill in the blanks :
If a body repeats its motion, within fix interval of time, along a certain path, about a fixed point, it is said to have ____________.

Q 32.

Fill in the blanks :
RADAR (Radio Detection And Ranging) works on _____________ principle which is used to determine the velocities and movement of aircrafts.

Q 33.

A hospital uses an ultrasonic scanner to locate tumors in a tissue. What is the wavelength of sound in a tissue is which the speed of sound is 1.7 km/s. The operating frequency of the scanner is 4.2 MHz. (1MHz = 106 Hz).

Q 34.

What is infrasonic? Give an example.

Q 35.

A periodic longitudinal Wave is sent on a slinky.The wave proceeds at a speed of 48 m/s and each particle oscillates at a frequency of 12 Hz.Calculate the minimum separation between the positions where the slinky is most compressed.

Q 36.

Guess which has a higher pitch : a guitar or a car horn ?

Q 37.

How are the wavelength and frequency of a sound wave related to its speed ?

Q 38.

Write the name of the wave which propagates in terms of compressions and rarefactions.

Q 39.

How are compressions and rarefactions produced near a source of sound ?

Q 40.

What are wavelength, frequency, time period and amplitude of a sound wave?

Q 41.

Give an application use of ultrasonics.

Q 42.

What type of wave is represented by density- distance graph?

Q 43.

What is the audible range of the average human ear ?

Q 44.

What do you mean by reverberation and reverberation time ? How is reverberation controlled ?

Q 45.

Fill in the blanks :
Waves transport _________ not matter.

Q 46.

Write differences between Transverse waves and Longitudinal waves.

Q 47.

What is echo?

Q 48.

A person is listening to a tone of 500 Hz sitting at a distance of 450 m from the source of the sound. What is the time interval between successive compressions from the source?

Q 49.

The sonic boom of an aircraft has a time period of 0 00005 s.Calculate the frequency of the sound produced.

Q 50.

Radio Ceylon broadcasts at 25 m.What is the frequency of the station ?