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Which of the following wave require a material medium to propagate?

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Important Questions on Waves

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In a resonance tube experiment when the tube is filled with water up to a height of 17.0 cm, from bottom, it resonates with a given tuning fork. When the water level is raised the next resonance with the same tuning fork occurs at a height of 24.5 cm. If the velocity of sound in air is 330 m s-1, the tuning fork frequency is :
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The electric field of a plane electromagnetic wave propagating along the x direction in vacuum is E=E0jcos(ωt-kx). The magnetic field B, at the moment t=0 is:
 
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The driver of bus approaching a big wall notices that the frequency of his bus's horn changes from 420 Hz to 490 Hz when he hears it after it gets reflected from the wall. Find the speed of the bus if speed of the sound is 330 ms1:
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A pendulum vibrates with a time period of 1 second. The sound produced in it is in the range of
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If the uncertainty in the position of an electron is 10-10 m, then the value of uncertainty in its momentum will be _____ kg ms-1. h=6.62×10-34 J-s
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An electron is constrained to move along the y-axis with a speed of 0.1c (c is the speed of light) in the presence of electromagnetic wave, whose electric field is E=30j^sin1.5×107t-5×10-2x V m-1. where t is in seconds and x is in meters. The maximum magnetic force experienced by the electron will be: (given c=3×108 m s-1 and electron charge =1.6×10-19 C
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Assume that the displacement s of air is proportional to the pressure difference Δp created by a sound wave. Displacement (s) further depends on the speed of sound (v), density of airρ and the frequency (f). If Δp=10 Pa, n=300 m s-1, p=1 kg m-3 and  f=1000 Hz, then s will be of the order of (take the multiplicative constant to be 1)
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Which of the following is not a transverse wave?
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Matter waves are
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Given below in the left column are different modes of communication using the kinds of waves given in the right column.
(1) Optical Fibre Communication (P) Ultrasound
(2) Radar (Q) Infrared Light
(3) Sonar (R) Microwaves
(4) Mobile Phones (S) Radio Waves

From the options given below, find the most appropriate match between entries in the left and the right column.
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For an electromagnetic wave, which of the following statements is true?
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Four electrons, each of mass me are in a one dimensional box of size L. Assume that, the electrons are non-interacting, obey the Pauli exclusion principle and are described by standing De Broglie waves confined within the box. Define α=h28meL2 and U0 to be the ground state energy. Then,
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To propagate both longitudinal and transverse waves, a material must have
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The correct match between the entries in column I and column II are :

  I   II
  Radiation   Wavelength
a Microwave i 100 m
b Gamma rays ii 10-15m
c A.M. radio iii 10-10m
d X–rays iv 10-3m

 

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Match the following:

  Column-I   Column-II
(a) Transverse wave through a steel rod (i) B+43ηρ
(b) Longitudinal waves in earth's crust (ii) ηρ
(c) Longitudinal waves through a steel rod (iii) 2πTgλ
(d) Ripples (iv) λρ
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A wave travelling on a string is described by y=πsin10x-πt+π4. All the physical quantities are in SI units. The frequency of the wave is
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When a sound wave is reflected from the boundary of a denser medium, the compression of the incident wave is returned as:
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The electric field of a plane electromagnetic wave is given by E=E0x^+y^sinkz-ωt. Its magnetic field will be given by

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In Raman scattering, Stokes and Antistokes lines respectively represents lines with ______ and ______ wavelength.
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A transverse wave travels on a taut steel wire with a velocity of v when tension in it is 2.06×104N. When the tension is changed to T, the velocity changed to v2. The value of T is close to: