Power Transmitted by a Wave on a String
Power Transmitted by a Wave on a String: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Energy and Momentum in Waves, Power Required to Maintain Waves, Intensity of Waves, Kinetic Energy of a Particle in a Sinusoidal Wave, Potential Energy of a Particle in a Wave, etc.
Important Questions on Power Transmitted by a Wave on a String
For a wave, , time-average of kinetic energy is given by:

The kinetic energy of pulse (in ) travelling in a taut string is Given Find the value of

The clocktower ("ghantaghar") of Dehradun is famous for the sound of its bell, which can be heard, albeit faintly, upto the outskirts of the city away. Let the intensity of this faint sound be The clock is situated high. The intensity at the base of the tower is:-

Two parallel boundaries separate three media as shown in figure. Planar wave of intensity I from continuous incoherent source is incident normally on boundary. Wave travels with speed and respectively in the media. Consider reflection and transmission of waves at each interface. Average energy density in steady state in medium (middle one) is . Value of is (consider where and are amplitudes of incident and reflected waves and are wave speed in media where transmitted and incident waves are present respectively)
(Take, )

The ratio of intensities of two waves are given by , then the ratio of amplitudes of the two waves is

A uniform string (length ,linear mass density and tension ) is vibrating with amplitude and frequency in its mode. The total energy of oscillation is given by :

At a certain instant, a stationary transverse wave produced in a string oscillating in fundamental mode fixed at both the ends is found to have maximum kinetic energy. The Amplitude at the antinode is . The appearance of string at that instant is

A sound has an intensity of . Its intensity level (in decibel) is: :

The intensity of light pulse travelling in an optical fiber decreases according to the relation . The intensity of light is reduced to of its initial value after a distance equal to

A sensor is exposed for time to a lamp of power placed at a distance . The sensor has a circular opening that is in diameter. Assuming all energy of the lamp is given off as light, the number of photons entering the sensor if the wavelength of light is is :-

Intensity due to point light source:-

is singing a note and at the same time is also singing a note with the frequency of The energies of the two sounds are equal. The displacement amplitude of the note of is:

A longitudinal standing wave, is maintained in a homogeneous medium of density . Here is the angular speed and k, the wave number and a is the amplitude of the standing wave. This standing wave exists all over a given region of space.
If a graph E (= EP + EK) versus t, (i.e.,) total space energy density versus time were drawn at the instants of time t = 0 and , between two successive nodes separated by distance which of the following graphs correctly shows the total energy (E) distribution at the two instants.

A longitudinal standing wave, is maintained in a homogeneous medium of density . Here is the angular speed and k, the wave number and a is the amplitude of the standing wave. This standing wave exists all over a given region of space.
The space density of the kinetic energy K.E = EK (x, t) at the point (x, t) is given by

For next three question please follow the same
A longitudinal standing wave, is maintained in a homogeneous medium of density . Here is the angular speed and k, the wave number and a is the amplitude of the standing wave. This standing wave exists all over a given region of space.
The space density of the potential energy P.E.= EP (x, t) at a point (x, t) in the space is

In order to have half the velocity in the second case than in the first case, the potential applied should be

A point source emits sound in all directions in a non-absorbing medium. Two points P and Q are at distances of and respectively from the source. What will be the ratio of the intensities of that sound waves at point P and Q ?

Two waves represented by the following equations are travelling in the same medium
The intensity ratio of the two waves is

If A is the amplitude of the wave coming from a line source at a distance r, then

With the propagation of a longitudinal wave through a material medium, the quantities transmitted in the propagation direction are
