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A sonometer wire under a tension of weight is in unison with a tuning fork of frequency . To make the wire vibrate in unison with a tuning fork of frequency , the tension should be altered by
(a) decreased
(b) increased
(c) decreased
(d) increased

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Important Questions on Sound Waves
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A tuning fork of frequency is moving towards a wall with a velocity of . If the speed of sound is , then the number of beats heard per second by a stationary observer lying between tuning fork and the wall is

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Two sound waves of wavelength and in a gas produce beats in . The velocity of sound in the gas is

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When a source is going away from a stationary observer with the velocity equal to that of sound in air, then the frequency heard by observer is times the original frequency. The value of is,

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When interference is produced by two progressive waves of equal frequencies, then the maximum intensity of the resulting sound are times the intensity of each of the component waves. The value of is,

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A tuning fork of frequency is sounded on a resonance tube. The first and second resonances are obtained at and . The velocity of sound is,

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A vehicle, with a horn of frequency , is moving with a velocity of in a direction perpendicular to the straight line joining the observer and the vehicle. The observer perceives the sound to have a frequency . If the velocity of sound in air is , then,

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A sound source emits frequency of when moving towards a rigid wall with speed and an observer is moving away from wall with speed . Both source and observer move on a straight line which is perpendicular to the wall. The number of beats per second heard by the observer will be [speed of sound],

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Two sound waves of wavelengths, and produce. The speed of sound is,
