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A source emitting a sound of frequency 300 Hz is fixed on block A while detector is fixed on block B detects the sound. The blocks A and B are simultaneously displaced towards each other through a distance 1 m and then left to vibrate. Velocity of sound in air 340 m s-1 and SA and SB are identical blocks A and B are also identical. The frequency of vibration of SA is 2 Hz.

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Important Questions on Sound

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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:

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If the source is moving away from the observer, then the apparent frequency ____.
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A car P travelling at 20 m s-1 sounds its horn at a frequency of 400 Hz. Another car Q is travelling behind the first car in the same direction with a velocity 40 m s-1. The frequency heard by the passenger of the car Q is approximately [Take, velocity of sound =360 m s-1]
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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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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 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 small source of sound is in uniform circular motion of radius R and angular speed π/10rad·s-1. It emits continuous sound of fixed frequency f0. A detector placed at a distance 2R from the centre and in the plane of the circle records frequencies with maximum value 1200 Hz and minimum value 800 Hz. Take the speed of sound to be 330 m·s-1. Select the correct statement (s).
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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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A train approaching a railway crossing at a speed of 120 kmph sounds a whistle of frequency 576 Hz, when it is 288 m away from the crossing. The frequency heard by the observer standing on the road perpendicular to the track from the crossing at a distance of 384 m is (Speed of sound in air =340 m s-1)
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Two cars are approaching each other at an equal speed of 7.2 km hr-1. When they see each other, both blow horns having a frequency of 676 Hz. The beat frequency heard by each driver will be _______Hz. [Velocity of sound in air is 340 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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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 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 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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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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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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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 cars X and Y are approaching each other with velocities 36 km h-1 and 72 km h-1 respectively. The frequency of a whistle sound as emitted by a passenger in car X, heard by the passenger in car Y is 1320 Hz. If the velocity of sound in air is 340 ms-1, the actual frequency of the whistle sound produced is ________ Hz.
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A train moving at 30 m s-1 is blowing a whistle with a frequency 500 Hz. The speed of sound is 345 m s-1. The wind is blowing with a speed 10 m s-1 in the direction of moving train. The apparent wavelengths of the whistle as heard by an observer who is respectively in front of and behind the train are
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Two loudspeakers M and N are located 20 m apart and emit sound at frequencies 118 Hz and 121 Hz, respectively. A car is initially at a point P, 1800 m away from the midpoint Q of the line MN and moves towards Q constantly at 60 km h-1 along the perpendicular bisector of MN. It crosses Q and eventually reaches a point R, 1800 m away from Q. Let νt represent the beat frequency measured by a person sitting in the car at time t. Let νp, νQ and νR be the beat frequencies measured at locations P, Q and R, respectively. The speed of sound in air is 330 m s-1. Which of the following statement(s) is (are) true regarding the sound heard by the person?