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A sonometer wire under a tension of 10 kg weight is in unison with a tuning fork of frequency 320 Hz. To make the wire vibrate in unison with a tuning fork of frequency 256 Hz, the tension should be altered by

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Important Questions on Sound Waves

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A tuning fork of frequency 256 Hz is moving towards a wall with a velocity of 5 m s-1. If the speed of sound is 330 m s-1, 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 1 m and 1.01 m in a gas produce 10 beats in 3 s. 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 n times the original frequency. The value of n 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 N times the intensity of each of the component waves. The value of N is,

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A tuning fork of frequency 500 Hz is sounded on a resonance tube. The first and second resonances are obtained at 17 cm and 52 cm. The velocity of sound is,
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A vehicle, with a horn of frequency n, is moving with a velocity of 30 m s-1 in a direction perpendicular to the straight line joining the observer and the vehicle. The observer perceives the sound to have a frequency n+n1. If the velocity of sound in air is 300 m s-1, then,
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A sound source emits frequency of 180 Hz when moving towards a rigid wall with speed 5 m s-1 and an observer is moving away from wall with speed 5 m s-1. 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=355 m s-1],
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Two sound waves of wavelengths, λ1 and λ2 λ2>λ1 produce n beats s-1. The speed of sound is,