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9th CBSE
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A man standing between two parallel cliffs fires a gun. He hears the first echo after 1.5 s and the next after 2.5 s. Calculate the distance between the cliffs. When does he hear the third echo? Take the speed of sound in air is 340 m s-1.

Important Questions on Sound

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9th CBSE
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A person standing between two vertical cliffs and 680 m away from the nearest cliff, shouts. He heard the first echo after 4 s and the second echo 3 s later. Determine (ï) the speed of sound in air and (ii) distance between the two cliffs.
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9th CBSE
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A girl stands 60 m in front of a wall and claps. She continues to clap every time an echo is heard. Another girl watches her and observes that the time between the first (1st) and the fifty first (51 st) clap is 18 s. What is the speed of sound?
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9th CBSE
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A man fires a shot and hears an echo from a cliff after 2 s. He walks 85 m towards the cliff and the echo of a second shot is now heard after 1.4 s. Calculate the velocity of sound and find how far was the man from the cliff when he first heard the echo?
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An engine is approaching a hill at constant speed. When it is at a distance of 0.9 km, it blows a whistle, whose echo is heard by the driver after 5 s. If the speed of sound is 340 ms-1, find the speed of the engine.
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9th CBSE
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It takes 2.4 s to record the echo of a sonar. If the speed of sound in water is 1450 ms-1, calculate the depth of the ocean floor.
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9th CBSE
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A ship sends out ultrasound that returns from the seabed and is detected after 3.42 s. If the speed of the ultrasound through seawater is 1531 ms-1. Calculate the distance of the seabed from the ship.
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9th CBSE
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A ship which is stationary, is at a distance of 2900 m from the seabed. The ship sends an ultrasound signal to the sea bed and its echo is heard 4 s. What is the speed of sound in water?
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9th CBSE
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Consider the following sound waves marked A, B, C and D:
(a) Which two waves represent sounds of the same loudness but different pitch?
(b) Which two waves represent sounds of the same frequency but different loudness?
(c) State whether all these sound waves have been produced by the same vibrating body or different vibrating bodies?
(d) Which vibrating body/bodies could have generated the sound waves shown here?
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