Revision on Waves (calculation)

Important concepts:
1. Amplitude, a = maximum displacement from equilibrium
2. Wave equation: v = f λ v = velocity (m/s) f = frequency (Hertz)
λ = wavelength (metres)
3. Frequency, f = 1 / T T = period (s)
4. Frequency of stroboscope = frequency of rotation * number of slits
5. Echo distance: 2D = speed * time
6. Constructive or destructive interference: resultant amplitude = sum of all amplitudes
7. λ = ax / D a = distance between two coherent sources
x = distance between consecutive antinodal lines
D = distance from source to plane
8. velocity of all electromagnetic waves = 3 * 108 m/s
Questions:
1. According to Diagram 1, what is the wavelength?
2. According to Diagram 2, what is the wavelength?
3. A water wave is produced a source of frequency 30 Hz. If the
wavelength is 0.8 cm, what is the velocity of the wave?
4. The length between eight consecutive wave crests is 35 cm.
Calculate the frequency of the wave if the speed is 20 cm/s.
5. According to Diagram 3, calculate the amplitude, frequency
and period of the wave.
6. In a ripple tank experiment, 24 waves are produced per
second and there is 20 cm between 5 successive ripples. If
the waves per second are halved, what should be the new
wavelength (velocity remains unchanged)?
7. Before refraction, the speed of wave is 15 m/s and the distance between three consecutive wave
fronts is 6 cm. Find the speed of wave after refraction if the distance
between four consecutive wave fronts is 6 cm.
8. A sound wave of wavelength 5mm has 600 compression regions in a
second. What is the time taken for the wave to travel 80 m?
9. In a ripple tank experiment, a stroboscope is used to observe the
wave patterns. The stroboscope has 4 slits and rotates at 5 revolutions per second. If the wave
pattern is frozen, find the frequency and period of the waves.
10. According to Diagram 4, what is the amplitude of the resultant wave?
11. An underwater sonar sends a pulse to the seabed to measure its depth. The time gap between
emission and receival is 40 ms. What is the depth of sea? (speed of sound = 1500 m/s)
12. The distance between man A and the wall, and the distance between man A and man B are the
same, which is x. Assuming that man A, man B and the wall are colinear, man A fires a shot and
man B hears two loud bangs 1.5 s apart, find x. (speed of sound = 320 m/s)
13. Monochromatic light of wavelength λ passes two narrow slits separated at a distance of 3.0 * 10-4
m. An interference pattern is formed on a screen placed 1.5 m away from the slits.
a. If the distance between three consecutive bright fringes on the screen is 4.2 * 10-3 m, find λ.
b. If λ is tripled, what is distance between five consecutive bright fringes?
14. Two speakers are placed at a distance of 1.5 m. An audio signal generator is set to 50 Hz and
connected to the speakers. A person stands at a horizontal distance of 3.0 m from the speakers
and hears four loud sounds successively when he walks in vertical direction for 3.6 m. Find the
wavelength and velocity of the wave.