IX – Foundation (Physics)

1. A sound wave travels from east to west, in which direction do the particles of air move:
(a) East-west (b) North-south (c) Up and down (d) None of these
2. In which medium sound travels fastest:
(a) Solid (b) Liquid (c) Gas (d) None of these
3. What is the name of short duration wave:
(a) Pulse (b) Frequency (c) Time period (d) Velocity
4. What is the velocity of sound in water at room temperature:
(a) 1500 m/s (b) 330 m/s (c) 1500 km/s (d) 330 km/s
5. The unit of quantity on which pitch of the sound depends is:
(a) Hertz (b) metre (c) metre/second (d) second
6. The unit of quantity on which loudness of sound depends is:
(a) metre (b) Hertz (c) metre/second (d) second
7. Nature of sound wave is:
(a) transverse (b) longitudinal (c) electromagnetic (d) seismic
8. Pitch of high frequency sound is:
(a) high (b) low (c) zero (d) infinite
9. Voice of a friend is recognised by its:
(a) pitch (b) quality (c) intensity (d) velocity
10. Sound waves in air are:
(a) Longitudinal waves (b) Radio waves
(c) Transverse waves (d) Electromagnetic waves
11. Sound waves can not pass through:
(a) A solid liquid mixture (b) A liquid gas mixture
(c) An ideal gas (d) A perfect vacuum
12. A periodic wave is characterized by:
(a) Phase only (b) Wavelength only (c) Frequency only (d) All the above
13. The speed of sound is maximum in:
(a) Air (b) Hydrogen (c) Water (d) Iron
14. When sound waves travelling in air enter into the medium of water, the quantity which remains
unchanged is:
(a) Wavelength (b) Velocity (c) Frequency (d) None
15. The density of medium through which longitudinal waves propagates is minimum in a region
which is called:
(a) Crest (b) Compression (c) Trough (d) Rarefaction
16. Mechanical waves can travel:
(a) In vacuum as well as in a medium (b) In vacuum but not in a medium
(c) In a medium but not in vacuum (d) Neither in a medium nor in vacuum
17. The speed of an object moving faster than the speed of sound in air is known as:
(a) Infrasonic (b) Ultrasonic (c) Supersonic (d) None of these
18. Waves produced by Supersonic jet planes are!
(a) Shock waves (b) Infrasonic waves (c) Seismic waves (d) None of these
19. Pitch of A is more than that of B, frequency of:
(A) A = B (b) A > B (c) A < B (d) None of these
20. The velocity of sound in air at 30°C is approximately:
(a) 332 ms-1 (b) 350 ms-1 (c) 530 ms-1 (d) 332 kms-1
21. With the rise of temperature, the velocity of sound :
(a) Decreases (b) Increases
(c) Remains the same. (d) Is independent of temperature
22. The speed of sound in air at constant temperature:
(a) Decreases with increase of pressure (b) Increase with increase of pressure
(c) Remains the same with the increase in pressure (d) None of these
23. Sound waves of wavelength  travels from a medium in which their speed is V into a medium in
which their speed is 4 V. The wavelength of the sound in the second medium is :
(a)  (b) 2  (c) 3  (d) 4 
24. The period of a periodic wave is 0.02 s. At a particular position, there is a crest at t = 0. A trough
appears at this position at t =
(a) 0.005 s (b) 0.01 s (c) 0.015 s (d) 0.02 s
25. The sound propagates in a gaseous medium by :
(a) Transverse waves (b) Longitudinal waves
(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) Neither (a) nor (b)
26. The frequency of sound waves in water is:
(a) Same as that of frequency of source (b) Less than frequency of source
(c) More than frequency of source (d) None
27. During summer, an echo is heard:
(a) Sooner than during winter (b) Later than during winter
(c) After same time as in winter (d) Rarely
28. Sonar is based on the principle of :
(a) Echo (b) Reverberation (c) Resonance (d) Any one of the above
29. A graph drawn between the angles of incidence and the angles of reflection will be:
(a) a straight line. (b) a parabola. (c) a circle. (d) a random curve.
30. The property of sound, which leads to the formation of echoes is :
(a) refraction of sound waves (b) reflection of sound waves
(c) transverse nature of sound waves (d) longitudinal nature of sound waves
31. The echo of a gun shot is heard 8 sec. after the gun is fired. How far from him is the surface that
reflects the sound (velocity of sound in air = 350 m/s)
(a) 1400 m (b) 2800 m (c) 700 m (d) 350 m
32. Infrasonic frequency range are :
(a) Below 20 Hz (b) 20 Hz to 20 kHz (c) Above 20 kHz (d) No limit
33. Ultrasonic frequency range is :
(a) Below 20 Hz (b) 20 Hz to 20 kHz (c) Above 20 kHz (d) No limit
34. A sonar echo takes 4.4s to return from a submarine. If the speed of sound in water is 1500 ms-1,
then the distance of submarine from the sonar is :
(a) 1500 m (b) 3000 m (c) 3300 m (d) 3600 m
35. The equipment (device) used for locating the position and distance of an object inside sea, using
ultrasound is called :
(a) Pukar (b) Upkar (c) Radar (d) Sonar
36. A fishing boat using sonar detects a shoal of fish 190 m below it. How much time elapsed between
sending the ultra sonic signal which detected the fish and receiving the signal’s echo ? (speed of
sound in sea water is 1519 ms-1) :
(a) 0.25 s (b) 0.50 s (c) 0.75 s (d) 1.0 s
37. The minimum distance between the source of sound and the obstacle for an echo to take place is
(speed of sound is 340 m/s) :
(a) 17 m (b) 172 m (c) 17 cm (d) 34.4 m
38. In a Stethoscope, sound of heartbeats travel to the stethoscope tube :
(a) By bending along the tube (b) In a straight line
(c) By undergoing multiple reflections (d) As a sonic boom
39. Ultrasonic waves are used in :
(a) Sonar (b) Emulsification (c) Sonography (d) All of these
40. Human ear can hear :
(a) audible sound (b) infra sound (c) ultra sound (d) all the above
41. The eardrum is a :
(a) bone (b) coiled tube (c) stretched membrane (d) fluid
42. The part of the ear, that is filled with a liquid is the :
(a) cochlea (b) ear canal (c) anvil (d) hammer
43. Human ears cannot sense sound waves travelling in air having wavelength of :
(a) 10-3 m (b) 10-2 m (c) 1 m (d) 102m
44. Ear drum is also called as :
(a) Cochlea (b) Tympanum (c) Stirrup (d) Hammer
45. The linear distance between the compression and the adjacent rarefaction is 0.8 m. The
wavelength of the longitudinal wave is :
(a) 0.8 m (b) 1.6 m (c) 0.4 m (d) 3.2 m
46. A broadcasting station transmits waves of frequency 71 × 10 Hz with a speed of 3 × 108 m/s. The
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wavelength of the wave is :

(a) 418.8m (b) 324.6m (c) 208.4m (d) 422.5m
47. A person is listening to a tone of 500 Hz sitting at a distance of 450 m from the source of the
sound. What is the time interval between the successive compression from the source ?
(a) 5 ms (b) 1 ms (c) 2 ms (d) 2 s
48. The moon is at a distance of 4 × 10 m from the earth. A radar signal is transmitted from the earth
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will reach the moon in about :

(a) 2.6 s (b) 1.3 s (c) 5.2 s (d) 6.5 s
49. A man is standing asymmetrically between two parallel cliffs. He claps his hands and starts
hearing a series of echoes at intervals of 1 second. If the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, then the
distance between the two parallel cliffs will be :
(a) 170 m (b) 510 m (c) 340 m (d) 680 m
50. The angle between particle velocity and wave velocity in a transverse wave is :
(a) Zero (b)  / 4 (c)  / 2 (d) 
51. A man beats drum at a certain distance from the mountain. He slowly increases the rate of beating
and finds that the echo is not heard distinctly, when the drum beating is at the rate of 40 per
minute. He moves by 80 m towards the mountain and finds that the echo is again not heard
distinctly when the rate of beating of the drum is 1 per second. What is the original distance of the
man from the mountain ?
(a) 120 m (b) 240 m (c) 270 m (d) 340 m
52. When a tuning fork produces sound waves in air, which one of the following properties of sound is
same in the material of tuning fork as well as air ?
(a) Wavelength (b) Frequency (c) Velocity (d) Amplitude
53. In a slinky:
(a) Both transverse pulse as well as longitudinal pulse can be generated .
(b) Both types of pulse cannot be generated
(c) Only a transverse pulse can be generated
(d) Only a longitudinal pulse can be generated
54. Waves inside a gas are :
(a) longitudinal (b) transverse
(c) partly longitudinal, partly transverse (d) none of these
55. The waves produced by a motor boat sailing in water are :
(a) Transverse (b) Longitudinal (c) Longitudinal and transverse (d) Stationary
56. The frequency of sound waves in water is :
(a) same as that of frequency of source (b) Less than frequency of source
(c) More than frequency of source (d) Can’t say
57. The speed of sound in air and sea-water are given to be 340 m/s and 1440 m/s respectively. A
ship sends a strong signal straight down and detects its echo after 1.5 secs. The depth of sea at that
point is :
(a) 2.16 kms (b) 1.08 kms (c) 0.51 kms (d) 0.255 kms
58. Sound with frequency more than 20 KHz is known as :
(a) Audible Sound (b) Ultra sonic (c) Inaudible sound (d) None of these
59. The frequency of a source of sound is 50 Hz. How many times does it vibrate in one minute ?
(a) 50 (b) 300 (c) 3000 (d) 30000
60. How many times does the polarity of an A.C. supply of frequency 50 hz changes in one second ?
(a) 50 (b) 100 (c) 25 (d) 200
61. The ratio of velocity of sound in hydrogen to the velocity of sound in oxygen is (at constant
temperature)
(a) 4 : 1 (b) 16 : 1 (c) 2 : 1 (d) 8 : 1
62. Frequency of Ultrasonic waves is ……………..
(a) less than 20,000 Hz (b) greater than 20,000 Hz
(c) less than 20 Hz (d) 1000 Hz.
63. If the velocity of a wave is 400 m/sec and frequency is 100 Hz, then the wavelength of the wave
is …………..
(a) 6m (b) 2.8 m (c) 3 m (d) 4 m
64. A pundubbi sends a sonarsignal to locate a body and receives the echo after 5 s. If the velocity of
the sound is 340 m/s. What is the distance of the body ?
(a) 0.85 km (b) 1.7 km (c) 0.425 (d) 4.25 km
65. A person clapped his hands near a cliff and heard the echo. The minimum distance of the cliff from
the person if the speed of sound is taken as 346 m/s is :
(a) 17.1m (b) 17.2m (c) 17.3m (d) 34.6m
66. A stone is dropped into a well 44.1 m deep. The sound of splash is heard 0.13 seconds after the
stone hits the water. What should be the velocity of sound in air ?
(a) 319 m/s (b) 339 m/s (c) 359 m/s (d) 369 m/
67. A person sees a jet plane flying from east to west. When the plane is just above his head, the sound
of plane appears to reach him at 60o with horizontal. If the velocity of sound is  , then velocity of
jet plane is :
 
(a) 2 (b)  (c) (d)
2 2
68. A sound wave has a wavelength of 3.0 m. The distance from a compression centre to the adjacent
rarefaction centre is :
(a) 0.75 m (b) 1.5 m (c) 3.0 m (d) 6.0 m
69. Calculate the wavelength of radio waves of frequency 10 Hz. The speed of radio waves is 3 × 108
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m/s.
(a) 60 cm (b) 40 cm (c) 30 cm (d) 10 cm
70. A sound wave has a frequency of 10 kHz and wavelength 3 mm. How much time will it take to
travel 3 metre ?
(a) 0.1 sec (b) 1 sec (c) 10 sec (d) 0.01 sec

Answer Key
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D D D C D C C A B A
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B C D A B A A A A B
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A A C C D A A C D A
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C A C B C D D B C B
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B C B B A B B B A B
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A B D A C B D B C A