Free, Damped and Forced Vibrations; Resonance

Author:R P Goyal & S P Tripathi
10th ICSE
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Important Questions on Free, Damped and Forced Vibrations; Resonance

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How do you tune your radio set to a particular station? Name the phenomenon involved in doing so and define it.

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Why are the stringed instruments like guitar provided with a hollow sound box?

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When a troop crosses a suspension bridge the soldiers are asked to break steps. Explain the reason.

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In the figure, A, B, C, and D represent test tubes each of height 20 cm which is filled with water up to heights of 12 cm, 14 cm, 16 cm, 18 cm respectively. If a vibrating tuning fork is placed over the mouth of test tube D, a loud sound is heard. Describe the observations with tubes A, B, and C when the vibrating tuning fork is placed over the mouth of these tubes.

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What adjustments would you make for tuning a stringed instrument for it to emit a note of a desired frequency?

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State two ways of increasing the frequency of vibrations of a stretched string.

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State one way of increasing the frequency of a note produced by an air column.

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Name one factor on which the frequency of sound emitted due to vibrations in an air column depends.

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State one condition for a body to execute free vibrations.

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Draw a graph between displacement from mean position and time for a body executing free vibrations in vacuum.

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What is meant by the natural frequency of vibrations of a body? Name one factor on which it depends?

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What do you understand by free vibrations of a body? Give one example.

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The digram in fig. 7.12 shows the displacement time graph of a vibrating body.

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(iv) What happens to the vibrations of the body after some time.

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The digram in fig. 7.12 shows the displacement time graph of a vibrating body.

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(iii) Why is the amplitude of vibrations gradually decreasing.

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The digram in fig. 7.12 shows the displacement time graph of a vibrating body.

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(i) Give one example of such vibrations.

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The digram in fig. 7.12 shows the displacement time graph of a vibrating body.

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(i) Name the kind of vibrations.

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What are damped vibrations? How do they differ from the vibrations? Give one example of each.

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How does the medium affect the amplitude of free vibration of a body? Explain.