BASARA GNANA SARASWATHI CAMPUS KAKATIYA HILLS

Sec: Star SC Waves & Sound Date: 23-10-2020

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SINGLE ANSWER TYPE

1. The equation of a wave travelling along the positive x-axis, as shown in figure at t = 0
is given by
(in mm)

1
0
-0.5
-1

   
A) sin  kx   t   B) sin  kx   t  
 6  6
   
C) sin   t  kx   D)sin   t  kx  
 6  6
1
2. A periodic wave is given by the equation y  f  x, t   ; where position x is in
 x  2t  1
2

meter and time t is in sec. The correct wave profile at the instant t=1s will be given by
which of the following graphs? (Consider Best Approximation graph)
2
y  m
2
y  m
1 1

-2 -1 0 1 2 3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
x
x  m
A) B)
2
y  m y  m
2
1

-2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 -2 -1 0 1 2
x m 
x  m
C) D)
3. The figure shows three progressive waves A, B, C. It can be concluded from the
figure that with respect to wave A.
 A) The wave C is ahead by a phase angle of  2 & the wave B lags behind by a phase
angle  2
B) The wave C lags behind by a phase angle of  2 & the wave B is ahead by a phase
angle of  2
C) The wave C is ahead by a phase angle of  & the wave B lags behind by the phase
angle of 
D) The wave C lags behind by a phase angle of  & the wave B is ahead by a phase
angle of  .
4. A rope hangs from a rigid support. A pulse is set by jiggling the bottom end. We want
to design a rope in which velocity  of pulse is independent of z, the distance of the
pulse from fixed end of the rope. If the rope is very long the desired function for mass
per unit length  (z) in terms of 0 (mass per unit length of the rope at the top (z = 0) is
given by
gz gz  2 
 
C)  ( z )  0 log e  2  z
  g
A)  (z) =  0 e v2
B)  ( z )  0 e v2
D)   z   0 e  gz 

 
5. Find the resultant amplitude of a point at which N sinusoidal waves interfere. All the
waves have same amplitude A and their phases increases in arithmetic progression of
common difference  .
 N   N 
N  N   sin 2   cos 2 
A) A  sin  B) A cos   C) A   D) A  
 2   2   
 sin   sin 
 2   2 
6. When a tuning fork and a stretched string fixed at both ends are sounded together the
beat frequency produced is 5 Hz when the tension in the string is either 121N or 144N.
Frequency of the string when its tension is 121N will be
A) 115 B) 110Hz C) 120 Hz D) 125 Hz
 
7. Consider the standing wave, y  A sin  x  sin  2 t  , where x is in cm and t is in
 30 
second. Phase difference (in radians) between two particles at x  25cm and
x  35cm is
 
A) 0 B)  C) D)
3 2
8. A sound wave travelling in a medium has equation in terms of displacement as
S  S0 sin 2 t  kx  . If bulk modulus of the medium is B, then equation for pressure
variation due to that sound is
A) BkS0 sin  2t  2kx  B)  BkS0 sin  2t  2kx 
C) BkS0 cos 2 (t  kx ) D)  BkS0 cos 2 (t  kx )
9. A sound wave of wavelength 40cm travels in air. If the difference between the
maximum and minimum pressures at a given point is 1.0  103 N / m 2 and the bulk
modulus of air is 1.6 105 N / m 2 , the amplitude of vibration of the particles of the medium
is nearly
A) 1.0  10 10 m B) 2.0 1010 m C) 3.3  10 10 m D) 4.4  1010 m
10. Progressive simple harmonic wave is moving in air along the x-axis. The part of this
wave at a given point x  x0 from the source and at a certain instant t  t0 has the
waveform shown below in the displacement  y  t  time graph and velocity  v  t  time
graph respectively.
displacement velocity
v x = x0
y
x = x0
a
t t = t0 time t
t = t0 time

(i) (y - t) graph (ii) (v - t) graph

Velocity of the wave has value v0 and its angular velocity is  . Which of the
following equations will correctly represent the complete wave at x0 agreeing with
above wave forms?
 2    2  
(A) y  a cos   t  t 0    (B) y  a sin   t  t 0   
 T 2   T 2 
 2    2  
(C) y  a sin   t  t 0    (D) y  a cos   t  t 0   
 T 2   T 2 
11. A man standing at some distance from a cliff hears the echo of sound after 2s. He
walks 495 m away from the cliff. He produces a sound there and receives the echo
after 5s. What is the speed of sound?
A) 330 m/s B) 340 m/s C) 390 m/s D) 380 m/s
1
12. A point source of sound emits sound with a constant power with I , where r is the
r2
distance from the source. Distance of a point P2 from the source is twice the distance of
the source from the point P1,the number of decibels by which the intensity of sound
level drop when we move from P1 to P2 is (approximately)
A) 2 dB B) 4 dB C) 6 dB D) 8 dB
13. Figure shown is a graph, at a certain time t, of the displacement function
S(x,t) of three sound waves 1,2 and 3 as marked on the curves that travel
 along x–axis through air. If P 1 ,P 2 and P 3 represent their pressure amplitudes
respectively, then correct relation between them is:

(A) P 1 > P 2 > P 3 (B) P 3 > P 2 > P 1 (C) P 1 = P 2 = P 3 (D) P 2 > P 3 > P 1
14. A source emitting sound of frequency 180 Hz is placed in front of a wall at a distance
of 2m from it. A detector is also placed in front of the wall at the same distance. The
minimum distance between the source and the detector for which detector detects a
maximum of sound is (velocity of sound in air = 360 ms-1)
A)1.8 m B) 2.4 m C) 3.0 m D) 4.8 m
15. Three coherent sonic plane sources initially in same phase are emitting sound of single
wavelength ‘  ’ are placed on the x – axis at points    11 / 6, 0  ,  0, 0  ,   11 / 6, 0  . The
intensity of sound reaching a point  0,5 / 6  from each source has the same value I0.
Then the resultant intensity at this point due to the interference of the three waves will
be:
A) 9I 0 B) 7I0 C) 5I 0 D) 4I0
16. As shown in the fig two loudspeakers are located at point A and B. Both are vibrating
in phase at a frequency  and P1 and P2 are their respective power. Point C lies on a
line joining two loudspeakers at a distance of d1 from A and d2 from B. When both the
speakers are switched on, what is the intensity (in W/m2) at point C? Take velocity of
sound 300 ms-1, frequency  =100Hz, d1=1 m and d2 = 1.5 m, p1= 8  W and p2=18 
W. Also assume that loudspeakers behave like isotropic point sources: (emit sound
uniformly in all directions)
P1 P2
A C B
d1 d2

(a) 6W/m2 (b) 9W/m2 (c) 12W/m2 (d) 15W/m2

17. An open pipe is suddenly closed at one end, as a result of which the frequency of third
harmonic of the closed pipe is found to be higher by100 Hz than the fundamental
frequency of the open pipe. The fundamental frequency of the open pipe is (neglect
end correction)
(a) 200 Hz (b) 300 Hz (c) 240 Hz (d) 480 Hz
18. In an experiment of resonance tube to measure the velocity of sound, first resonance
occurs at l = 10cm from the open end of the tube. End correction of the tube is 1.0cm
and the frequency of tuning fork is 700Hz.
(I) Velocity of sound is 308m/s
(II) Next resonance will occur at l = 32cm from the open end of the tube
(III) Radius of resonance tube is 1.67cm
 The correct statement is/are
A) I, II B) I, III C) II, III D) I. II. III
19. A tube U-shaped has a uniform cross-section with arm lengths l1 and l2 (l2  l1 ) .Tube
1
has a liquid of density 1 filled to a height h. Another liquid of density 2  is
2
poured in arm A. Both liquid are immiscible. The length of the second liquid that
should be poured in A so that first overtone of A is in unison with fundamental
frequency of B is.

3 3 2 2
a)  l1  3l2  2h  b)  l1  3l2  2h  c)  l1  3l2  2h  d)  l1  3l2  2h 
2 2 3 3
20. A standing wave is produced in a vapor of an element of atomic mass
127 (g mol-1) at 400 K. Nodes are found to be 6.77 cm apart when frequency of source
was 1000 Hz. The vapor used for the experiment is (R = 8.31 JK-1mol-1)
(A) Monatomic (B) diatomic (C) polyatomic (D)cannot determine

KEY
1 D 2 C 3 B 4 A 5 C 6 B 7 B 8 A
9 B 10 C 11 A 12 C 13 B 14 15 B 16 A
17 A 18 D 19 D 20 B