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Target PMT/AIEEE: Topic Waves-1 You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there

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1. A transverse harmonic disturbance is produced in a string. The maximum transverse velocity is 3 m/s and maximum transverse acceleration is 90 m/s2. If the wave velocity is 20 m/s then find the waveform 7. 3 x ] (a) y = 0.1 sin [30t 2 3 x ] (b) y = 0.1 cos [30t 2 2 x ] (c) y = 0.1 sin [30t 3 2 (d) y = 0.1 sin [30t x ] 8. 3 A police car moving at 22 m/s, chases a motorcyclist. The police man sounds his horn at 176 Hz, while both of them move towards a stationary siren of frequency 165 Hz. Calculate the speed of the motorcycle, if it is given that he does not observes any beats. (a) 33m/s (b) 22m/s (c) zero (d) 11 m/s 9. Two pulses in a stretched string whose centers are initially 8 cm apart are moving towards each other as shown in the fig. considered to be a result of the superposition of independent harmonic motions. (a) two (b) three (c) four (d) five A uniform rope of length 12 m and mass 6 kg hangs vertically from a rigid support. A block of mass 2 kg is attached to the free end of the rope. A transverse pulse of wavelength 0.06 m is produced at the lower end of the rope. What is the wavelength of the pulse when it reaches the top of the rope? (a) 0.012 m (b) 0.12 m (c) 1.2 m (d) 12.0 m A transverse wave is described by the equation y = y0 sin x 2 ft . The maximum particle velocity is equal to four times the wave velocity if y y (b) = 0 (a) = 0 4 2 (d) = 2y0 (c) = y0 A travelling wave has the frequency v and the particle displacement amplitude A. For the wave the particle velocity amplitude is and the particle acceleration amplitude is (a) A (2v) & A (2v)2 (b) A (2v2) & A (2v) (d) A (2v) & (2 A v)2. (c) A2 (2v) & A (2v) A plane wave of sound travelling in air is incident upon a plane water surface. The angle of incidence is 60. Assuming snells law to be valid for sound waves, it follows that the sound wave will (a) be refracted into water away from the normal. (b) be refracted into water towards the normal. (c) be reflected back into air (d) propagate without deviation. A source of sound with frequency 256 Hz is moving with a velocity V towards a wall and an observer is stationary between the source and the wall. When the observer is between the source and the wall he will hear (a) beats of increasing pitch (b) beats of decreasing pitch (c) beats with constant pitch (d) No beats A balloon is filled with CO2,, then for sound waves this will behave as : (a) converging lens (b) diverging lens (c) both of the above (d) none of these If a balloon is filled with H2 gas then for sound waves this will behaves as a : (a) convex lens (b) concave lens (c) both of the above (d) none of the above The displacement time graphs for two sound waves A and B are shown in the fig. Then the ratio of their intensities IA/IB is equal to : A 3 (a) 1: 4 (b) 1 : 16 1 2 B (c) 1 : 2 (d) 1 : 1 4 The fig. shows an instantaneous profile of a rope carrying a progressive wave moving from left to right, then (a) the phase at A is greater than A C B the phase at B

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The speed of each pulse is 2 cm/s. After 2 seconds, the total energy of the pulses will be (a) zero (b) purely kinetic (c) purely potential (d) partly kinetic and partly potential A transverse sinusoidal wave of amplitude a, wavelength and frequency f is travelling on a stretched string. The maximum speed of any point on the string is v/10, where v is the speed of propagation of the wave. If a = 103 m and v = 10 ms1, then and f are given by (a) = 2 102 m & f = 103 Hz/(2) (b) = 103m & f = 103 Hz/(2) (c) = 103m & f =103 Hz/(2) (d) = 2 102 m & f = 104 Hz Two identical straight wires are stretched so as to produce 6 beats per second when vibrating simultaneously. On changing the tension slightly in one of them, the beat frequency remains unchanged. Denoting by T1, T2 the higher and the lower initial tension in the strings, then it could be said that while making the above changes in tension, (a) T2 was decreased & T1 was increased (b) T2 was increased & T1 was increased (c) T2 was decreased & T1 was decreased (d) T2 was increased & T1 was decreased The displacement y of a particle executing periodic motion is 1 given by y = 4 cos2 t sin(1000 t ) . This expression may be 2

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(b) the phase at B is greater than the phase at A (c) A is moving upwards (d) B is at rest Fig. below shows the wave y = A sin ( t kx), at any instant travelling in the +ve x-direction. What is the slope of the curve at B ? (a) A (b) k / A A C B (c) kA (d) A The fig. represents a longitudinal wave traveling in positive x-direction. Then (a) part ABC represents E compression and part CDE represents B compression D C (b) part ABC represents rarefaction and part CDE also represents rarefaction (c) part ABC represents rarefaction and part CDE represents compression (d) part ABC represents compression and part CDE represents rarefaction Sound wave is traveling along positive x-direction. Displacement (y) of particles from their mean positions at any time t is C D E shown in fig. Choose the incorrect A B alternative (a) particle located at E has its velocity in negative xdirection (b) particle located at D has zero velocity (c) particles located near C are under rerefaction. (d) change in pressure at D is zero The amplitude of a wave disturbance propagating in the positive x-direction is given by y = 1/(1+x2) at time t = 0 and by y = 1/[1+(x1)2] at t = 2 seconds, where x and y are in meters. The shape of the wave disturbance does not change during the propagation,

then the velocity of the wave is : (a) 0.5 m/s (b) 1.0 m/s (c) 2.0 m/s (d) none of the above 20. The loudness of noise falling on the window (area A = 2 m2) of a hall is 40 dB. What is the amount of sound energy entering the window every second ? (b) 2 108 J (a) 2 104 J 4 (d) 108 J (c) 10 J 21. A certain amount of acoustic energy is emitted in a uniform hemispherical pattern from a point source. At a distance of 5 m from the source the intensity is 5W/m2. At a distance of 15 m the intensity will be : (b) 2.5 W/m2 (a) 5W/m2 2 (d) (5/9) Wm2 (c) (5/3) Wm
22. A sine wave is traveling in a medium. The minimum distance between the two particles, always having same speed, is (a) /4 (b) /3 (c) /2 (d) 23. Both the strings, shown in fig. are made of same material and have same cross-section. The pulleys are light. The wave speed of a transverse wave in the string AB is v1 and in CD it is v2. Then v1/v2 is (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 2 (d) 1/2 24. If the velocity of wave is C and energy per unit volume is E, the, energy transferred per second unit area of wave front is then (a) E/C (b) C/E (c) EC (d) 1/2CE2 25. A small source of sound moves on a circle as shown in figure and an observer is sitting at O. Let v1, v2 & v3 the frequencies heard when the source is at A, B & C respectively then B (a) v1 > v2 > v3 (b) v1 = v2 > v3 O (c) v1 < v2 < v3 C (d) v1 < v3 < v2

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A normal ear cannot listen to waves of frequency exceeding .. cycles/second which are called .. waves. A plane progressive wave of frequency 25 Hz amplitude 2.5 10-5 m and initial phase zero propagates along the negative x-direction with a velocity of 300 m/s. At any instant, the phase difference between the oscillations at two points 6 m apart along the line of propagation is .. and the corresponding amplitude difference is .. .

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A point source emits sound equally in all directions in a non-absorbing medium. Two points P and Q are at a distance of 9 metres and 25 metres respectively from the source. The ratio of the amplitudes of the wave at P and Q is .. .

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A travelling wave has the frequency v and the particle displacement amplitude A. For this wave, the particle velocity amplitude is .. and the particle acceleration amplitude is .. .

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In ordinary talk, the pressure change in air is about .. . Non mechanical transverse waves can travel through .. . The amplitude of vibration of a particle in air in ordinary talk is about .. . The velocity of sound in vacuum is .. .

10. Two sound waves reaching a point at time t are represented by P = P01 sin (KX - t) and P = P02 sin [K(x + X) - t + 0] respectively. The phase difference between these waves is .. . (Roorkee 1997)