DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL RANIPUR

CLASS: VIII
CHAPTER-13, SOUND
ASSIGNMENT FOR PRACTICE: NUMERICALS
1 A boy hears an echo of his own voice from a distant hill after 2.5 second. The speed of sound is
340m/s in air. Calculate the distance of the hill from the boy.
2 A person clapped his hands near a cliff and heard the echo after 5 s. What is the distance of the cliff
from the person if the speed of the sound in air is taken as 344 m/s?
3 A man stationed between two parallel cliffs fires a gun. He hears the first echo after 1.5 s and the
next after 2.5 s. What is the distance between the cliffs? Take the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s.
4 A person standing between two vertical cliffs and 680m away from the nearest cliff, shouted. He
heard the first echo after 4s and the second echo 3s later. Calculate (a) the speed of sound in air and
the (b) distance between the two cliffs.
5. A submarine emits a sonar pulse, which returns from an underwater cliff in 1.02 s. If the speed of
sound in salt water is 1531 m/s, how far away is the cliff?
6. A sonar device on a submarine sends out a signal and receives an echo 5 s later. Calculate the speed
of sound in water if the distance of the object from the submarine is 3625 m.
7. Calculate the time period of a sound wave of frequency 1000 Hz.
8. The frequency of a sound wave is 500 Hz. In how much time will it complete 10 oscillations?

9. A human heart, on an average, is found to beat 75 times a minute. Calculate its frequency.
10. A sound of wave produces 40 crests and 40 troughs in 0.4s. What is the frequency of the wave?
11. A source of wave produces 1 crest and 1 trough in 16 s. Find the frequency of the wave.
12. A fly flaps its wings back and forth 121 times each second. What is the time period of the wing
flapping?
13. Calculate the frequency of a sound wave the time period of which is 0.02 s.
14. a. Calculate the time period of the sound wave shown in the picture (GIVEN BELOW).
b. Calculate the frequency of the sound wave shown in the picture.
c. In how much time the given sound wave will be able to complete 7.5 oscillations?
15. Calculate the time period and the frequency of the sound wave shown in picture (GIVEN BELOW).

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