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A point source emits sound waves isotropically. The intensity of the waves 6.00 m from the source is 4.5×104W m-2. Assuming that the energy of the waves is conserved, find the power of the source.

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0.900 m long tube is closed at one end. A stretched wire is placed near the open end. The wire is 0.330 m long and has a mass 9.60 g. It is fixed at both the ends and oscillated in its fundamental mode. By resonance, it sets the air column in the tube to oscillation at that column's second lowest harmonic frequency.(Take, velocity of sound as 330 m s-1)

Find

A that frequency.

B the tension in the wire.

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Earthquakes generate sound waves inside the Earth. Unlike a gas, the Earth can experience both transverse S and longitudinal P sound waves. Typically, the speed of S waves is about 4.5 km s-1 and that of P waves is 8.0 km s-1. A seismograph records P and S waves from an earthquake. The first P waves arrive 3.5 min before the first S waves. If the waves travel in a straight line, how far away did the earthquake occur?
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Pipe A, which is 1.80 m long and open at both ends, oscillates at its lowest harmonic frequency. If it is filled with air for which the speed of sound is 343 m s-1. Pipe B, which is closed at one end, oscillates at its second lowest harmonic frequency. This frequency of B happens to match the frequency of A. An x-axis extends along the interior of B, with x=0 at the closed end. a How many nodes are along that axis? What are the b smallest and c second smallest value of x locating those nodes? d What is the fundamental frequency of B?
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A Find the speed of waves on a violin string of mass 860 mg and length 22.0 cm when the fundamental frequency is 920 Hz.

B What is the tension in the string?

For the fundamental, what is the wavelength of,

C the waves on the string?

D the sound waves emitted by the string?

(Take, velocity of sound in air as 343 m s-1)

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Show the output from a pressure monitor mounted at a point along the path taken by a sound wave of a single frequency traveling at 343 m s-1 through air with a uniform density 1.21 kg m-3. The vertical axis scale is set by ps=5.0 mPa.The displacement function of the wave is sx,t=smcoskxωt.

What is

A sm?

B k?

C ω?

The air is then cooled so that its density is 1.35 kg m-3 and the speed of a sound wave through it is 320 m s-1. The sound source again emits the sound wave at the same frequency and same pressure amplitude.

What is

D sm?

E k?

F ω?

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A violin string 15.0 cm long, fixed at both ends oscillates in n=1 mode. The speed of waves on the string is 280 m s-1, and the speed of sound in air is 348 m s-1.

What is the

A frequency of the emitted sound wave?

B wavelength of the emitted sound wave?

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Figure shows four isotropic point sources of sound that are uniformly spaced on the x-axis. The sources emits sound at the same wavelength λ and same amplitude Sm, and they emit in phase. A point P is shown on the x-axis. Assume that as the sound waves travel to P, the decrease in their amplitude is negligible. What multiple of Sm is the amplitude of the net wave at P, if the distance d in the figure is (a) λ4, (b) λ2 and (c) λ?

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A state trooper chases a speeder along a straight road; both vehicles move at 143 km h-1. The siren on the trooper's vehicle produces sound at a frequency of 915 Hz. What is the Doppler shift in the frequency heard by the speeder?