
During the propagation of transverse waves:


Important Questions on Waves
Figure shows an incident pulse reflected from a rigid support. Which one represents the reflected pulse correctly?

and
,
Where is in metres and is in seconds. The phase difference between them is



A transverse pulse is given as, where, and are in and is in .
Assertion: The frequency of the pulse is .
Reason: We can write this equation as, where, and are the amplitude, wave number and angular frequency of pulse.

The respective displacements (in ) of two particles of a medium disturbed by a wave propagation at and are given by the equations:
The speed of the wave is


Consider a plane progressive wave propagating along negative -direction whose frequency is . At the displacement associated with the wave is given by the following equation:
Displacement associated with the wave as a function of at can be represented by equation.
