Standing waves

1) A 2.00-m long piano wire with a mass per unit length of 12.0 g/m is under a tension of
8.00 kN. What is the frequency of the fundamental mode of vibration of this wire?
Ans: 204 Hz

2) A platinum wire that is 1.20 m long has a radius of 0.500 mm and is fixed at both ends.
In its third harmonic it vibrates at 512 Hz. The density of platinum is 21.4 × 103 kg/m3.
What is the tension in the wire?
Ans: 2.82 kN

3) A thin taut string is fixed at both ends and stretched along the horizontal x-axis with its
left end at x = 0. It is vibrating in its third OVERTONE, and the equation for the vertical
displacement of any point on the string is y(x,t) = (1.22 cm) sin[(14.4 m-1)x] cos[(166
rad/s)t].
(a) What are the frequency and wavelength of the fundamental mode of this string?
(b) How long is the string?
(c) How fast do waves travel on this string?
Answer: (a) 6.60 Hz, 1.75 m (b) 0.873 m (c) 11.5 m/s

4) A thin 2.00-m string of mass 50.0 g is fixed at both ends and under a tension of 70.0 N.
If it is set into small-amplitude oscillation, what is the frequency of the first harmonic
mode?
Ans: 13.2 Hz

5) A guitar string 0.650 m long has a tension of 61.0 N and a mass per unit length of 3.00
g/m.
(a) What is the speed of waves on the string when it is plucked?
(b) What is the string's fundamental frequency of vibration when plucked?
Answer: (a) 143 m/s (b) 110 Hz

6) A standing wave is oscillating at 690 Hz on a string, as shown in the figure. What is the
speed of traveling waves on this string?

Ans: 280 m/s

7) A 2.0-m string is fixed at both ends and tightened until the wave speed is 78m/s. What is
the frequency of the standing wave shown in the figure?

Ans: 120 Hz

8) A 1.0-g string that is 0.64 m long is fixed at both ends and is under tension. This string
produces a 100-Hz tone when it vibrates in the third harmonic. The speed of sound in air is
344 m/s. The tension in the string, in is closest to
Ans: 2.8 N.