Which one of the following statements is true?
1. | Both light and sound waves in the air are transverse. |
2. | The sound waves in the air are longitudinal while the light waves are transverse. |
3. | Both light and sound waves in the air are longitudinal. |
4. | Both light and sound waves can travel in a vacuum. |
The time of reverberation of a room \(A\) is one second. What will be the time (in seconds) of reverberation of a room, having all the dimensions double those of room A?
1. 2
2. 4
3.
4. 1
A transverse wave propagating along the \(x\text-\)axis is represented by:
\(y(x,t)=8.0\sin\left(0.5\pi x-4\pi t-\frac{\pi}{4}\right)\), where \(x\) is in meters and \(t\) in seconds. The speed of the wave is:
1. \(4\pi\) m/s
2. \(0.5\) m/s
3. \(\frac{\pi}{4}\) m/s
4. \(8\) m/s
Two sound waves with wavelengths \(5.0~\text{m}\) and \(5.5~\text{m}\), respectively, propagate in gas with a velocity of \(330~\text{m/s}\). How many beats per second can we expect?
1. \(12\)
2. \(0\)
3. \(1\)
4. \(6\)
The wave described by \(y=0.25\sin (10\pi x-2\pi t)\), where \(x \) and \(y\) are in metre and \(t\) in second, is a wave travelling along the:
1. | \(1\) Hz | –ve x-direction with frequency
2. | \(\pi\) Hz and wavelength \(\lambda=0.2\) m | +ve x-direction with frequency
3. | \(1\) Hz and wavelength \(\lambda=0.2\) m | +ve x-direction with frequency
4. | \(0.25\) m and wavelength \(\lambda=0.2\) m | –ve x-direction with amplitude
1. | \(5\) | 2. | \(7\) |
3. | \(8\) | 4. | \(3\) |
A tuning fork of frequency \(512\) Hz makes \(4\) beats/s with the vibrating string of a piano. The beat frequency decreases to \(2\) beats/s when the tension in the piano string is slightly increased. The frequency of the piano string before increasing the tension was:
1. \(510\) Hz
2. \(514\) Hz
3. \(516\) Hz
4. \(508\) Hz
A transverse wave is represented by y = Asin(ωt -kx). At what value of the wavelength is the wave velocity equal to the maximum particle velocity?
1. A/2
2. A
3. 2A
4. A
1. | increase by a factor of \(20\). |
2. | increase by a factor of \(10\). |
3. | decrease by a factor of \(20\). |
4. | decrease by a factor of \(10\). |