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A source emits a sound of a frequency of 400 Hz, but the listener hears it 390 Hz. Then

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Important Questions on Sound

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A siren emitting a sound of frequency 800 Hz moves away from an observer towards a cliff at a speed of 15 s-1. Then, the frequency of sound that the observer hears in the echo reflected from the cliff is
(Take velocity of sound in air =330 s-1)
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An observer is moving with half the speed of light towards a stationary microwave source emitting waves at frequency 10 GHz. What is the frequency of the microwave measured by the observer? (speed of light =3×108 m s-1)
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Two vehicles, each moving with speed u on  the same horizontal straight road, are approaching each other. The wind blows along the road with velocity w. One of these vehicles blows a whistle of frequency f1. An observer in the other vehicle hears the frequency of the whistle to be f2. The speed of sound in still air is v. The correct statement (s) is (are):
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Two cars moving in opposite directions approach each other with speed of 22 m s-1 and 16.5 m s-1 respectively. The driver of the first car blows a horn having a frequency 400Hz. The frequency heard by the driver of the second car is [velocity of sound 340 m s-1]
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A train moves towards a stationary observer with speed 34 m/s. The train sounds a whistle and its frequency registered by the observer is f1. If the speed of the train is reduced to 17 m/s, the frequency registered is f2. If speed of sound is 340 m/s, then the ratio f1/f2 is:
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A whistle emitting a loud sound of frequency, 540 Hz is whirled in a horizontal circle of radius, 2 m and at a constant angular speed of, 15 rad s-1. The speed of sound is, 330 m s-1. The ratio of the highest to the lowest frequency heard by a listener standing at rest at a large distance from the center of the circle is:
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The observer is moving with velocity v0 towards the stationary source of sound and then after crossing moves away from the source with velocity v0 . Assume that the medium through which the sound waves travel is at rest. If v is the velocity of sound and n is the frequency emitted by the source then the difference between apparent frequencies heard by the observer is
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Two sources of sound S1 and S2 produce sound waves of same frequency 660 Hz. A listener is moving from source S1 towards S2 with a constant speed u0 m s-1 and he hears 10 beat s-1. The velocity of sound is 330 m s-1. Then, u0 equals:
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A source of sound S emitting waves of frequency 100 Hz and an observer O are located at some distance from each other. The source is moving with a speed of 19.4 s-1 at an angle of 60o with the source observer line as shown in the figure. The observer is at rest. The apparent frequency observed by the observer corresponding to the wave emitted by the source at the instant shown is

(velocity of sound in air 330 s-1 )

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A bat moving at 10 m s1 towards a wall sends a sound signal of 8000 Hz towards it. On reflection, it hears a sound of frequency f. The value of f in Hz is close to
(speed of sound=320m s1)
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Two engines pass each other moving in opposite directions with uniform speed of 30 m/s. one of them is blowing a whistle of frequency 540 Hz. Calculate the frequency heard by driver of second engine before they pass each other. speed of sound is 330 m/sec:
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A musician using an open flute of length 50 cm produces second harmonic sound waves. A person runs towards the musician from another end of a hall at a speed of 10 km h-1. If the wave speed is 330 m s-1, the frequency heard by the running person shall be close to
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A train S1, moving with a uniform velocity of 108 km/h, approaches another train S2 standing on a platform. An observer O moves with a uniform velocity of 36 km/h towards S2, as shown in figure. Both the trains are blowing whistles of same frequency 120 Hz. When O is 600 m away from S2 and distance between S1 and S2 is 800 m, the number of beats heard by O is____.

[Speed of the sound =330 m s-1]
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An engine moving away from a vertical cliff blows a born at a frequency f . Its speed is 0.5% of the speed of sound in air. The frequency of the reflected sound received at engine is
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Two cars A and B are moving away from each other in opposite directions. Both the cars are moving with speed of 20 m s-1 with respect to the ground. If an observer in car A detects a frequency 2000 Hz of the sound coming from car B, what is the natural frequency of the sound source in car B?
(speed of sound in air =340 m s-1 )
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A stationary source emits sound waves of frequency  500 Hz . Two observers moving along a line passing through the source detect sound to be of frequencies 480 Hz and  530 Hz . Their respective speeds are, in  m s-1 ,
(Given speed of sound =300 m s-1 )
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A submarine A travelling at 18km hr-1 is being chased along the line of its velocity by another submarine B travelling at 27 km hr-1B sends a sonar signal of 500 Hz to detect A and receives a reflected sound of frequency v. The value of v is closed to (Speed of sound in water 1500 s-1 )
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A source of sound emits sound waves at frequency f0 . It is moving towards an observer with fixed speed vs (vs<v) , where v is the speed of sound in air). If the observer were to move towards the source with speed v0 , one of the following two graphs (A and B) will give the correct variation of the frequency f heard by the observer as v0 is changed.

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The variation of f with v0 is given correctly by:

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Two men are walking along a horizontal straight line in the same direction. The man in front walks at a speed 1.0 m s-1 and the man behind walks at a speed 2.0 m s-1 . A third man is standing at a height 12 m above the same horizontal line such that all three men are in a vertical plane. The two walking men are blowing identical whistles which emit a sound of frequency 1430 Hz . The speed of sound in air is 330 m s-1. At the instant, when the moving men are 10 m apart, the stationary man is equidistant from them. The frequency of beats in Hz , heard by the stationary man at this instant, is __________.
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A train is moving on a straight track with speed 20 m s-1 . It is blowing its whistle at the frequency of 1000 Hz. The percentage change in the frequency heard by a person standing near the track as the train passes him is (speed of sound =320 m s-1 ) close to: