Name: Rabyan

Standing waves

Date: 13/01/2021

Time: N/A

Total marks available: 17

Total marks achieved: 15

Questions
Q1.

The length of the string is 4 m.

What is the wavelength of the stationary wave?

A 1m

B 2m

C 4m

D 8m

(Total for question = 1 mark)

Q2.

Select one answer from A to D and put a cross in the box ( )

Two waves have the same frequency and are travelling in the same medium.
The two waves can produce a standing wave if they

A have different amplitudes and travel in opposite directions.

B have different amplitudes and travel in the same direction.

C have the same amplitude and travel in opposite directions.

D have the same amplitude and travel in the same direction.

(Total for Question = 1 mark)

Q3.

The diagram represents a stationary wave on a string.

Which diagram correctly shows the position of nodes N and/or antinodes A?

(Total for question = 1 mark)
Q4.

Select one answer from A to D and put a cross in the box ( )

Two loudspeakers produce identical sounds of frequency 440 Hz which superpose to produce a standing
wave. Adjacent nodes are formed 0.75 m apart.

Select the correct statement about the waves.

A The frequency heard is 880 Hz.

B The speed of the waves is 165 m s−1.

C The wavelength of the waves is 1.5 m.

D The waves are travelling in the same direction.

(Total for Question = 1 mark)

Q5.

(a) A transverse wave travelling along a wire under tension has a speed v given by

where T is the tension in the wire and μ is the mass per unit length of the wire.

Show that the units on both sides of the equation are the same.
(3)
.................T = kg/ms^-1 ............................................................................................................................

.................U = kg/ms^-2............................................................................................................................

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(b) The diagram shows a wire held under tension by hanging weights at one end and supported by a
vibration generator at the other end. The frequency of the vibration generator is slowly increased from
zero until a standing wave is formed.

(i) Explain how the standing wave is produced.

(3)
The waves travel in both direction along the wire after that the superposition occurs casing the waves to produce
nodes and antinodes, the node is produced at 180 degrees out of phase the anti-nodes are produced where the
waves are in phase.

(ii) Calculate the wavelength of the standing wave.

(1)
.............l = .4m..............................................................................................................................
Wavelength = ...........................................................
(iii) The weight is 150 N and the mass per unit length of the wire is 0.0050 kg m-1.

Using the equation given in (a), calculate the speed of the transverse wave along the wire.
(2)

Speed of transverse wave = V = √150/0.0050 = 173 m/s^-1

(iv) The wire is observed as the frequency of the vibration generator is steadily increased to several times
the frequency that produced the first standing wave.

Describe and explain what is seen as the frequency is increased.

(4)
As the frequency increases the wavelength decreases, at higher frequencies there are more anti-nodes occurring in
the wave as well as the amplitude decreases as the nodes also increase in the wave. Most of the frequencies the
standing waves do not occur only in some frequencies there is a possibility.

(Total for Question = 13 marks)

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