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16.30 » Singing in the Shower. A pipe closed at both ends can have standing waves inside of it, but you normally don't hear them because little of the sound ean get out, But you can hear them if you are inside the pipe, such as someone singing in the shower, (@) Show that the wavelengths of standing waves in a pipe of length £ that is closed at both ends are Ay = 2L/n and the fre- quencies are given by fy af, where n= 12,3, (by Modeling it as a pipe, find the frequency of the fundamental and the first two overtones for a shower 2,60 m tall. Are these frequencies audible? 16.39 »» Two small stereo speak Figure £16.39 cers are driven in step by the same variable-frequency oscillator. Their s ae sounds picked up by amicrophone 5.5, arranged as shown in Fig. E16.39,~ Microphone For what frequencies does their sound at the speakers produce (@) constructive interference and (b) destructive interference? <8 16.40 * Two guitarists attempt to play the same note of wave- Jength 6.50 cm at the same time, but one of the instruments is slightly out of tune and plays a note of wavelength 6.52.em instead, ‘What is the frequency of the beats these musicians hear when they play together? 16.47 + Two train whistles, A and B, each have a frequency of 392 Hz. is stationary and B is moving toward the right away from A) at @ speed of 35.0 m/s. A listener is between the (0 ‘whistles and is moving toward the right with a speed of 15.0 m/s (Fig. £16.47), No wind is blowing, (a) What isthe frequency from ‘A as heard by the listener? (b) What is the frequency from B as heard by the listener? (c) What is the beat frequency detected by the listener? Figure £16.47 yao ») 18.0m/6 16.66 * A bat flies toward a wall, emitting a steady sound of frequency 1.70 kHz. This bat hears its own sound plus the sound reflected by the wall, How fast should the bat fly in order to hear a beat frequency of 8.00 Hz?

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