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Sec 002, TR 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM

PHYS1325: General Physics II

Test 1 Fall 2015
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Date: 09/15/2015

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1) What is the frequency of the wave shown in the figure?

A) 0.5 Hz.
B) 1 Hz.
C) 2 Hz.
D) It cannot be determined from the given information.
Answer: A
2 ) When a certain string is under tension T, the speed of a wave in the string is v. What will be
the speed of a wave in the string if the tension is increased to 2T without changing the mass or
length of the string?
A) v/2
B) v/
C) v
D) 2v
Answer: C
3) Four waves are described by the following equations, where distances are measured in meters
and times in seconds.
I. y = 0.12 cos(3x - 21t)
II. y = 0.15 sin(6x + 42t)
III. y = 0.13 cos(6x + 21t)
IV. y = -0.23 sin(3x - 42t)
Which of these waves have the same period?
A) I and III, and also II and IV
B) I and IV, and also II and III
C) I and II, and also III and IV
D) All of them have the same period.
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Answer: A
4) You double your distance from a sound source that is radiating equally in all directions. What
happens to the intensity of the sound? It reduces to
A) one-half its original value.
B) one-fourth its original value.
C) one-sixteenth its original value.
D) none of the above
Answer: B
5) A fisherman fishing from a pier observes that the float on his line bobs up and down, taking
2.4 s to move from its highest point to its lowest point. He also estimates that the distance
between adjacent wave crests is 48 m. What is the speed of the waves going past the pier?
A) 1.0 m/s
B) 20 m/s
C) 10 m/s
D) 5.0 m/s
Answer: C

6) If a wave has a speed of 362 m/s and a period of 4.17 ms, what is its wavelength?
A) 1510 m
B) 1.51 m
C) 86.8 m
D) 86,800 m
Answer: B
7) A wire that has a linear density 0.09 kg/m is under tension. When a transverse wave of
frequency 890 Hz travels down the wire, its wavelength is 0.10 m and its amplitude is 6.5 mm.
What is the tension in the wire?
A) 710 N B) 820 N
C) 930 N D) 1000 N
E) 1100 N
Answer: A
8) Sound waves produced in one end of a cardboard tube (point A) move to the ear of a listener
at the other end of the tube (point B). As the waves move from A to B inside the tube, which of
the following are true?
A) Energy is transferred from A to B
B) Air molecules are transferred from A to B
C) Oscillations of molecules occur perpendicular to a line from A to B
D) The frequency of oscillations decreases as the waves move father in the tube from A to B
Answer: A

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9) What is the unit for sound intensity?
A) W/ m2
B) W/ m
C) Joules/ m2
Answer: A

D) Joules/ m

10) Two speakers output the same tone in the same phase. A person sitting in a chair across the
room at the same distance from both speakers hears the tone very well. However, when the
person moves the chair to the right so that she is one half meter closer to one speaker than the
other, she is not able to hear the tone very well. What is the wavelength of the tone produced by
the speakers?
A) 0.25 m
B) 0.5 m
C) 1 m
D) 1.5 m
Answer: C
11) A railroad train is traveling at 29.0 m/s in still air. The frequency of the note emitted by the
train whistle is 263 Hz . The speed of sound is 344 m/s. What frequency is heard by a passenger
on a train moving in the opposite direction to the first at 18.0 m/s and approaching the first?
A) 344 Hz
B) 302 Hz
C) 202 Hz
D) 262 Hz
E) 310 Hz
Answer: B
12) Two beams of coherent light start out at the same point in phase and travel different paths to
arrive at point P. If the maximum destructive interference is to occur at point P, the two beams
must travel paths that
A) Differ by a whole number of wavelengths
B) Differ by a whole number of half-wavelengths
C) Differ by an odd number of half-wavelengths
D) Are the same length.
Answer: B
13) A stretched string is observed to have four equal segments in a standing wave driven at a
frequency of 480 Hz. What driving frequency will set up a standing wave with five equal
segments?
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A) 600 Hz
Answer: A

B) 360 Hz

C) 240 Hz

D) 120 Hz

E) 960 Hz

14) Consider a pipe of length L that is open at both ends. What are the wavelengths of the three
lowest-pitch tones produced by this pipe?
A) 4L, 2L, L
B) 2L, L, L/2
C) 2L, L, 2L/3
D) 4L, 4L/3, 4L/5
Answer: C
15) Consider two pipes of the same length: one pipe is open at both ends and the other pipe is
closed on one end but open at the other end. If the fundamental frequency of the totally open
pipe is 300 Hz, what is the fundamental frequency of the other pipe?
A) 150 Hz B) 300 Hz C) 450 Hz
Answer: C

D) 600 Hz

16) If the number of slits in the grating is increased, with everything else (including the slit
spacing) the same, then
A) The fringes stay the same brightness and get closer together.
B) The fringes stay the same brightness and get farther apart.
C) The fringes stay in the same positions but get brighter and narrower.
D) The fringes stay in the same positions but get dimmer and wider.
Answer: C
17) If the index of refraction of a material is 2, this means that light travels
A) 2 times as fast in air as it does in vacuum.
B) 2 times as fast in the material as it does in air.
C) 2 times as fast in vacuum as it does in the material.
D) 2 times as fast in the material than it does in vacuum.
E) 1/2 as fast in air as it does in the material.
Answer: C
18) When light travels from air into water,
A) its velocity, wavelength and frequency all change.
B) its velocity changes, but its frequency and wavelength do not change.
C) its frequency changes, but its velocity and wavelength do not change.
D) its velocity and wavelength change, but its frequency does not change.
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E) its wavelength changes, but its velocity and frequency do not change.
Answer: D
19) Radio waves are diffracted by large objects such as buildings, whereas light is not noticeably
diffracted. Why is this?
A) Radio waves are unpolarized, whereas light is normally polarized.
B) The wavelength of light is much smaller than the wavelength of radio waves.
C) The wavelength of light is much greater than the wavelength of radio waves.
D) Radio waves are coherent and light is usually not coherent.
E) Radio waves are polarized, whereas light is usually unpolarized.
Answer: B
20) In a two-slit experiment using coherent light, the distance between the slits and the screen is
1.10 m, and the distance between the slits is 0.100 mm. If the first-order bright fringe is
measured to be 3.40 cm from the centerline, what is the wavelength of the light?
A) 354 nm
B) 241 nm
C) 133 nm
D) 3.09 m
E) 2.11 m
Answer: D
Answer: A