Unit Test- Waves and Sound

Name:____________________________________ Time: 75 min

The students are expected to understand, analyze, plan, and then solve the questions. Please check the
pointers to before submitting the test:

 Show all your work

 Write units
 Follow GRAPS method.
 Draw sketch/diagram where ever required.

This test will check their understanding, knowledge, thinking, communication, and application.

Knowledge /14 Inquiry /7 Communication /10 Making Connections /5

1. Figure 1 applies to questions A to D

A. The wavelength of this wave can be found by measuring the distance between-
a. A and X
b. B and E
c. C and X
d. D and X
B. What is the amplitude of the wave?
a. 8.0cm
b. 20cm
c. 40cm
d. 4.0cm
C. Which points is vibrating in phase with point X?
a. A
b. C
c. A and C
d. C and D
 D. The period of the wave can be found by measuring the time it takes the wave to travel from-
a. Point C to point X
b. Point D to point X
c. Point B to point E
d. Point A to point X

(K-4)

2. What property of a sound wave determines its pitch?

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What property of a sound wave determines its intensity?
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(K-2)

3. A tsunami has a wavelength of 260km and a period of 30 minutes. How long will it take the
wave to travel 10 km?

(M-2)

4. In figure 2, pulses A and B are moving towards the right at 1.0cm/s. Pulses C and D are moving
towards the left at 1.0cm/s. Their position at t=0 is shown. Draw the resulting shapes of the
pulses after (i) 1.5s and (ii) 2.5s.
Each division is 0.5cm
(K-2)

5. A chime (a hollow metal tube, open at both ends) is 0.5 cm long. If the speed of sound is
330m/s, what are the two lowest frequencies which can be produced when the chime is struck?
Sketch the nodes and antinodes in the tube for each frequency.

(I-2, C-2)
 6. When playing a violin string at the same time as a 440-Hz tuning fork, 30 beats are heard in 5.0s.
What are the possible frequencies of the string?

(K-2)

7. When speeding past a parked police car with its siren blaring, the perceived pitch of the sound
should be
A) Higher when travelling towards the sirens, then lower as you pass by
B) Lower when travelling towards the siren, then higher as you pass by
C) Higher when travelling towards the siren, then the same as you pass by
D) Lower when travelling towards the siren, then the same as you pass by

Why? Explain?

(K-1, C-2)

8. Two seagulls are floating on the ocean, bobbing up and down on waves which are 2m in
amplitude and in opposite phase. If the frequency of the waves is 0.25Hz, how quickly is each
seagull moving up or down with respect to the other? Sketch a diagram of the birds on the
water as part of your solution.

(K-2, I-2)

9. It was dark and stormy night. Buffy heard thunder exactly 6 seconds after she saw lightning.
How far away from Buffy did the lightening strike if the temperature is 15 degree C?
(M-3)

10. Clint Eastwood is standing in the middle of the bottom of a canyon 200m wide and fires a
revolver. He hears the echo 0.6s after he hears the shot. What is the temperature at the bottom
of the canyon?

(I-3)

11. A friend is a few hundred meters away from you inside a subway tunnel. He yells when he drops
his cell phone, which hits the medal subway track. Which sound do you hear first, the yelling or
the sound of the phone hitting the track? Why?

(K-1, C-1)