SOUND TEST PAPER 2

MAXIMUM TIME: 35 minutes. MAXIMUM MARKS: 20 marks

1. What is wavelength? (1)
2. What is pitch? (1)
3. What should be the time interval between the originated sound and the reflected
sound to heard distinctly? (1)
4. A ship sends out ultrasound that returns from the seabed and is detected after 3.42 s.
If the speed of ultrasound through seawater is 1531 m/s . What is the distance of the
seabed from the ship? (3)
5. Define amplitude, time period and frequency of sound water. (3)
6. Why do we say that sound waves are longitudinal? (2)
7. Give three uses of ultrasound. (3)
8. Sound cannot travel in vacuum. Describe an experiment to demonstrate this. (4)
9. A child watching Dussehra from a distance sees the effigy of ravana burst into
flames and hears the explosion associated with it 2 sec after that. How far was he from
the effigy if the speed of sound in air that night was 335m/sec ? (2)

Test for Work and Energy

Total Marks: 30. Total Time: 40 mins

1. Define one watt of power. (2 Marks)
2. Name twy physical quantities whose unit is Joule. (2 Marks)
3. What is gravitational potential energy? (2 Marks)
4. What is the commercial unit of energy? Define it. (3 Marks)
5. Give one example where work done on an object is negative. (3 M)
6. What work is said to be done to increase the velocity of a car from 15 km/h to 30
km/h, if the mass of the car is 1000 kg? (3 Marks)
7. A body possess potential energy of 460 J whose mass is 20 kg and is raised to a
certain height. What is the height when g = 10 m/s2. (3 Marks)
8. Derive the formula for kinetic energy. (4 Marks)
9. With pendulum as an example the law of conservation of energy.
(4 Marks)
10. Derive the formula for potential energy. (4 Mark