3B Wave Motion II Chapter 7 Sound

Practice 7.2 (p.183) 7 (a) 600 Hz

1 C (b) By v = f,
2 C = = = 0.567 m
3 C
4 By v = f, Distance travelled during each flap
= distance travelled in 1 period
= = = 1.30 m
=
Its wavelength is 1.30 m. = 0.567 m
5 (a) Path difference at R 8 (a) By v = f,
= 1.88  1.37 f= = = 256 Hz
= 0.51 m
= 1.5 The frequency is 256 Hz.
 Destructive interference occurs at R. (b) Speed v in medium X
(b) Path difference at S = f
= 1.85  1.7 = 256  5.47
= 0.15 m = 1400 m s1
 Neither constructive nor destructive (c) Refraction
interference occurs at S. 9 (a) The path difference from the two
(c) Path difference at mid-point of P and Q loudspeakers varies along QR. At
=0 position where constructive interference
 Constructive interference occurs at occurs, loud sound is heard. At position
the mid-point of P and Q. where destructive interference occurs,
6 (a) By v = f, soft sound is heard. Therefore, when the
student walks along QR, alternate loud
= = = 0.68 m
and soft sounds are heard.
The average wavelength of the sound is (b) The path difference from the two
0.68 m. loudspeakers is zero along PQ.
Therefore, constructive interference
occurs at all positions along PQ.
= However, the further away from the
loudspeakers, the softer the sound. As a
= 2.21
result, when the student walks along PQ,
The width of the doorway is 2.21 times
(loud) sound with decreasing loudness is
the average wavelength of the sound.
heard.
(b) Since the width of the doorway is
10 The loudspeaker emits sound waves in
comparable to the wavelength of the
different directions. Some waves are reflected
sound, sound diffracts around the
by the wall and interfere with the waves
doorway when passing through it.

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without reflection. At position where

constructive interference occurs, loud sound is
detected. At position where destructive
interference occurs, soft sound is detected.
Therefore, when a microphone is moved along
XY, alternating loud and soft sounds are
detected.

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