Physics Quiz Review

G8 S2 – Sound
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1. A child hits a bedug before starting adzan, someone is located at distance 500 meters from that direction
just hear the sound of bedug after 2 seconds the bedug is hit. What is sound velocity of that bedug?

2. A school bell is sounded by school officer as the sign to enter the class. A student at 100 meters from the bell
just hear the sound of bell fter several times the bell is sounded. If the sound velocity of the be; is 350 m/s,
what is the time reuired by the sound wave from the bell to arrive at the student?

3. Ririn an SMP student stands infront her school wall for 25 meters then Ririn shouts, the reflected is heard
after 0.5 second. What is sound velocity of the shout of Ririn?

4. The echo sound is heard 1.5 second after the originaal sound is spoken. What is distance between sound
with reflector wall, if sound velocity on air is 300 m/s?

5. The sonar of ship sends a ultrasonic pulse toward the seabed and the reflected pulse is received 1.6 s later. If
the speed of the sound wave in seawateris 1500m/s, what is the depth of the sea?
6. A sound wave is directed toward a vertical cliff 680 m from the source. A reflected wave is detected 4 s after
the wave is produced.
a. What is the speed of sound in the air
b. If the frequency of sound wave is 340 Hz, what is its wavelength?

7. Rando stands between two cliffs as shown in the figure below. If the speed of the sound in air is 340 m/s,
what will be the time interval between two loudest echoes?

8. The young man shouted so that the sound of his screams bounced off the cliffs A and B. If the time the sound
of the reflection from cliff A to youth = 0.5 seconds, then the time reflected by cliff B to the youth is

9. Sounds take about 3 ms (3 milliiseconds) to travel 1 m.

a. How long will it take to travel from the centre of a cricket pitch to spectators who are 200 m away?
b. What fraction of a second is this?

10. Sound waves with a frequency of 5 kHz travel in the air at a temperature of 30o C. If the speed of sound
travel in air at 0o C is 330 m/s.
a. Sound velocity at temperatuter of to C
b. Sound wavelength