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A sound wave has a frequency of 2 kHz and wavelength 35 cm. How long will it take to travel 1.5 km?

Important Questions on Sound

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A tuning fork having frequency 256 Hz emits a wave which has a wavelength of 1.35 m. Calculate the speed of sound in air.

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A periodic longitudinal wave is sent on a slinky. The wave proceeds at a speed of 48 m/s and each particle oscillates at a frequency of 12 Hz. Calculate the minimum separation between the positions where the slinky is most compressed.
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How far does sound travel in air when a tuning fork of frequency 560 Hz makes 30 vibrations? Take speed of sound in air = 336 m/s.
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Chandigarh radio station broadcasts at 1200 KHz. At what metre Chandigarh station would be tuned in your transistor? Take speed of the wave, v = 3×108 ms-1
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Radio Ceylon broadcasts at 25 m. What is the frequency of the station? Take speed of light, v = 3 ×108 ms-1.
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A wave of wavelength 0.60 cm is produced in air and it travels at a speed of 300 ms-1. Will it be audible? Take speed of the wave, v = 300 ms-1.
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A hospital uses an ultrasonic scanner to locate tumours in a tissue. What is the wavelength of sound in a tissue in which the speed of sound is 1.7 km/s? The operating frequency of the scanner is 4.2 MHz.
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A sound is producing 1500 sound waves in 3 seconds. If the distance covered by a compression and an adjacent rarefaction be 68 cm, calculate:
(i) frequency (ii) wavelength (iii) velocity of the sound wave