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Two sound waves, one with a frequency of 250 Hz and the other with 750 Hz, travel through the same medium. Which wave has a longer wavelength?
250 Hz wave
750 Hz wave
Both have the same wavelength
Wavelength cannot be determined
A sound wave travels from air into water. Which of the following properties of the sound wave remains unchanged?
Frequency
Wavelength
Velocity
Amplitude
If the frequency of a sound wave is doubled, what happens to its speed in the same medium?
Doubles
Halves
Remains the same
Quadruples
The fundamental frequency of a closed air column is 200 Hz. If the speed of sound is 340 m/s, what is the next resonant length of the air column?
85 cm
127.5 cm
170 cm
255 cm
A sonometer is set on the floor of a lift. When the lift is at rest, the sonometer wire vibrates with fundamental frequency 256 Hz. When the lift goes up with acceleration vibration of the same wire changes to
512 Hz
320 Hz
256 Hz
204 Hz
A sonometer is set on the floor of a lift. When the lift is at rest, the sonometer wire vibrates with fundamental frequency 256 Hz. When the lift goes up with acceleration vibration of the same wire changes to
512 Hz
320 Hz
256 Hz
204 Hz
5 beats/second are heard when a turning fork is sounded with a sonometer wire under tension, when the length of the sonometer wire is either 0.95 m or 1 m. The frequency of the fork will be :
195 Hz
251 Hz
150 Hz
300 Hz
To decrease the fundamental frequency of a stretched string fixed at both ends. Which of the following option is correct?
Increase its tension
Increase the wave velocity in it
Increase its length
Decrease its linear mass density
To decrease the fundamental frequency of a stretched string fixed at both ends. Which of the following option is correct?
Increase its tension
Increase the wave velocity in it
Increase its length
Decrease its linear mass density
If the distance between successive compressions and rarefraction in a sound wave is 2m and velocity of sound is 360 m/s, then the frequency is
180 Hz
45 Hz
120 Hz
90 Hz