CBSE TEST PAPER-03

CLASS - XI PHYSICS (Oscillations and Waves)

Topic: - Waves

1. Explosions on other planets are not heard on earth. Why? [1]

2. Why longitudinal waves are called pressure waves? [1]

3. Why do tuning forks have two prongs? [1]

4. A pipe 20 cm long is closed at one end. Which harmonic mode of the pipe is [2]

resonantly excited by a 430 Hz source? Will this source be in resonance with the

pipe if both the ends are open?

5. Can beats be produced in two light sources of nearly equal frequencies? [2]

6. A person deep inside water cannot hear sound waves produces in air. Why? [2]

7. If the splash is heard 4.23 seconds after a stone is dropped into a well. 78.4 [2]

metes deep, find the velocity of sound in air?

8. How roar of a lion can be differentiated from bucking of a mosquito? [2]

9. Explain briefly the analytical method of formation of beats? [3]

10. Give two cases in which there is no Doppler effect in sound? [2]

11. The length of a sonometer wire between two fixed ends is 110cm. Where the [2]

two bridges should be placed so as to divide the wire into three segments whose

fundamental frequencies are in the ratio of 1:2:3?

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