
A sine wave is travelling in a medium. The minimum distance between two particles always having same speed is is the wavelength of wave)


Important Questions on Wave Motion
A travelling wave passes through a point of observation. At this point, the time interval between successive crests is , then,

When a wave travels in a medium, displacement of a particle is given by, , where and are in metres and in seconds. The phase difference at a given instant of time between two particles apart in the medium is

If the wave equation of a particle is represented by, , where and are measured in metre and is measured in seconds, then the wave equation represents a wave travelling in

A transverse wave of amplitude , wavelength and frequency is propagating in a string in the negative-direction. The equation of this wave is

The equation of a wave is where are in and time is in second. The amplitude, wavelength, velocity and frequency of the wave are respectively

The equation of a wave is , where are in and is in second. The phase difference between two positions of the same particle which are occupied at time interval of is

The equation of a wave of amplitude and period travelling along a stretched string with a velocity of will be

The path difference between the two waves, and is
