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PRACTICE TEST - 23
Time : 75 Min TOPIC – WAVE MOTION M.M.160
Instructions: This paper has 40 Questions, each carrying +4 Marks for correct answer and -1 for wrong answer
1. A man is standing between two parallel cliffs and fires a gun. 7. A uniform rope of length L and mass m1 hangs vertically from
If he hears first and second echoes after 1.5 s and 3.5 s a rigid support. A block of mass m2 is attached to the free end
respectively, the distance between the cliffs is (Take, velocity of the rope. A transverse wave pulse of wavelength 1 is
of sound in air = 340 ms–1) produced at the lower end of the rope. The wavelength of the
(A) 1190 m (B) 850 m (C) 595 m (D) 510 m pulse, when it reaches the top of the rope is 2. The ratio 1 /
2. A point sound source emits 200 W power. The loudness of 2is
sound at a distance of 10 m from the source is nearly
m1 m1 m2
(A) 113 dB (B) 117 dB (C) 120 dB (D) 60 dB (A) (B)
m2 m2
3. A travelling wave represented by y1 A sin(t kx) is su-
perposed with another travelling wave represented by m2 m1 m2
(C) m1 (D)
y2 A sin(t kx) . The resultant is m1
(A) a wave travelling in + x-direction 8. A small piece of cork in a ripple tank oscillates up and down
(B) a wave travelling in – x-direction as ripples pass through it. If the ripples travelling at 0.3 m/s
1 have a wavelength of 1.5 cm and the cork vibrates with an
(C) a standing wave having nodes at x n ; n 0,1,2,.....
2 2 amplitude of 5 mm, the maximum velocity of the cork is
(A) 20 cm/s (B) 20 m/s (C) 0.02 m/s (D) 200 cm/s
n
(D) a standing wave having nodes at x ; n 0,1, 2,..... 9. Disturbances of two waves in same medium are shown as a
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function of time in the following figure. The ratio of their
4. The same progressive wave is represented by two graphs I intensities will be
and II. Graph I shows how the displcement y varies with
the distance x along the wave at a given time. Graph II
shows how y varies with time t at a given point on the
wave. The ratio of measurements AB to CD, marked on the
curves, represents
(A) 1 :4 (B) 4 : 1 (C) 1 : 2 (D) 1 : 1
10. Two identical plano wires, kept under the same tension T
have a fundamental frequency of 600 Hz. The fractional
increase in the tension of one of the wires which will lead to
occurrence of 6 beats when both the wires oscillate to-
gether would be
(A) 0.01 (B) 0.02 (C) 0.03 (D) 0.04
11. A sonometer wire has a total length of 2 m between the fixed
ends. Two wooden bridges are placed below the wire at a
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distance of m from one end and m from the other
(A) wave number (K) (B) wave speed (v) 7 7
(C) frequency () (D) angular frequency () [Link] three segments of the wire have their first overtone
5. A stone is dropped into a quite lake and waves move in frequencies in the ratio
circles spreading out radially at the speed of 5 cm/s. At the 1 1
(A) 1: : (B) 1: 2 : 3
instant when the radius of the circular wave is 8 cm, how 2 3
fast is the enclosed area increasing? (C) 1 : 1: 1 (D) 4 : 2 : 1
(A) cm2/s (B) 90cm2/s 12. Three successive frequencies of a stretched wire are 90, 150
(C) 85 cm /s
2
(D) cm2/s and 210 Hz. If the length of the string is 80 cm, the speed of
6. The speed of sound through oxygen at T K is v ms–1. As the the transverse wave in the string is ........ .
temperature becomes 2 T and oxygen gas disssociates into (A) 96 m/s (B) 48 m/s (C) 24 m/s (D) 32 m/s
atomic oxygen, the speed of sound
(A) remains the same (B) becomes 2v 13. A wire having a linear mass density 5.0 103 kg / m is
(C) becomes 2 v (D) None of these stretched between two rigid supports with tension of 450 N.
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The wire resonates at frequency 400 Hz. The next higher (A) 8 (B) 7 (C) 4 (D) 2
frequency at which the wire resonates is 500 Hz. The length 22. The number of possible overtones of air column in a closed
of the wire will be pipe of length 83.2 cm and of diameter 6 cm, whose frequencies
(A) 1 m (B) 4 m (C) 4.5 m (D) 1.5 m lie below 1000 Hz, will be (Take, velocity of sound in air = 340
14. Two uniform strings A and B made of steel are made of vibrate m/s)
under the same tension. If the first overtone of A is equal to (A) 5 (B) 4 (C) 10 (D) 7
the second overtone of B and if the radius of A is twice that 23. An organ pipe filled with oxygen gas at 47oC resonates in its
of B, the ratio of lengths of the strings is fundamental mode at frequency 300 Hz. If it is now filled with
(A) 1 : 2 (B) 1 : 3 (C) 1 : 4 (D) 1 : 6 nitrogen gas, at what temperature will it resonate at the same
15. A tuning fork gives 4 beats with 50 cm length of a sonometer frequency in the fundamental mode?
wire. If the length of the wire is shortened by 1 cm, the (A) 7oC (B) 27oC (C) 87oC (D)107oC
number of beats is still the same. The frequency of the fork 24. S1 and S2 are two coherent sources of sound with no initial
is phase difference. The velocity of sound is 330 m/s. No minima
(A) 404 Hz (B) 400 Hz (C) 396 Hz (D) 384 Hz will be obtained on the line passing through S2 and perpen-
16. A tuning fork of frequency 512 Hz makes 4 beats per second dicular to the line joining S1 and S2, if the frequency of both
with the vibrating string of a piano. The beat frequency the sources is
decreases to 2 beats per second, when the tension in the
piano string is slightly increased. The frequency of the piano
string before increasing the tension was
(A) 510 Hz (B) 514 Hz (C) 516 Hz (D) 508 Hz
17. In a resonance-column experiment to measure the velocity
of sound, the first resonance is obtained at a length l1 and
the second resonance at a length l2. Then, if end correction
is taken in account :
(A) l2 > 3 l1 (A) 50 Hz (B) 60 Hz (C) 70 Hz (D) 80 Hz
(B) l2 = 3 l1 25. A source of sound placed at the open end of a resonance
(C) l2 < 3 l1 column sends an acoustic wave of pressure amplitude p0
(D) may be any of the above, depending on the frequency of inside the tube. If the atmospheric pressure is pA, then the
the tuning fork used ratio of maximum and minimum pressure at the closed end of
18. A hollow pipe of length 0.8 m is closed at one end. At its the tube will be
open end, a 0.5 m long uniform string is vibrating in its pA p0 pA 2 p0
(A) p p (B) p 2 p
second harmonic and it resonates with the fundamental A 0 A 0
frequency of the pipe. If the tension in the wire is 50 N and
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the speed of sound is 320 ms–1, the mass of the string is p A p0
pA 2
(A) 5 g (B) 10 g (C) 20 g (D) 40 g (C) p (D) 1
19. In a resonance tube experiment, the first resonance is ob- 0 p A p0
2
tained for 10 cm of air column and the second resonance for
32 cm. The end the correction for this pipe is 26. Oygen is 16 times heavier than hydrogen. Equal volumes of
hydrogen and oxygen are mixed. The ratio of the velocity of
1 sound in the mixture to that in oxygen is
(A) 3 cm (B) 2 cm (C) 1 cm cm
(D)
2
1 32 17
20. A stone is hung in air from a wire which is stretched over (A) (B) (C) (D) 8
a sonometer. The bridges of the sonometer are 40 cm apart, 8 17 32
when the wire is in unison with a tuning fork of frequency 27. A cylinder tube, open at one end and closed at the other, is
256 Hz. When the stone is completely immersed in water, in unison with an external source held at the open end of the
the length between the bridges is 22 cm for re-establishing tube, in its fundamental note. Then,
unison. The specific gravity of the material of the stone is (A) the displacement wave from the source gets reflected
with a phase change of at the closed end
40 40
2 2
(B) the pressure wave from the source gets reflected with-
(A) (B) out a phase change at the closed end
40 22 40 22
2 2 2 2
(C) the wave reflected from the closed end again gets
22 40 reflected at the open end
(C) 256 (D) 256 (D) All of the above
40 22
28. There are three sources of sound of equal intensity with fre-
21. A close organ pipe and an open pipe of a same length pro-
quencies 500 Hz, 502 Hz and 504 Hz, respectively. The num-
duce 2 beats when they are set into vibration simulta-
ber of beats heard per second is
neously in their fundamental mode. The length of the open
(A) zero (B) two (C) four (D) eight
organ pipe is now halved and of closed organ pipe is
29. The inetnsity of a plane progressive wave having frequency
doubled, the number of beats produced will be
1000 Hz is 10–10 W/m2. Given that the speed of sound is 330
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m/s and density of air is 1.293 kg/m3, then the maximum change sin (0.314x) cos (600 t), where x and y are in cm and t is in
in pressure (in N/m2) is second.
(A) The frequency of vibration is 300 Hz
(A) 3 104 (B) 3 105 (C) 3 103 (D) 3 102 (B) The length of the string is 30 cm
30. A cord fixed at one end while other end is attached to a (C) The nodes are located at x = 0, 10 cm, 20 cm and 30 cm
vibrating fork oscillates in 8 loops, when tension in the cord (D) All of the above
is 49 N. The tension at which it will vibrate in 4 loops is 36. A person is producing wave in string by moving his hand
(A) 98 N (B) 124 N (C) 36 N (D) 196 N 1
first up and then down. If frequency is Hz, then find out
31. A string of length l is fixed at both ends. It is vibrating in 3rd 8
overtone with maximum amplitude a. The amplitude at a dis- time taken by particle which is at a distance of 9 m from
tance l/3 from one end is source to move to lower extreme first time.(Take, = 24 m)
(A) 3 s (B) 5 s (C) 9 s (D) 8 s
(A) a (B) 0 (C) 3 a / 2 (D) a / 2
37. A piano string 1.5 m long is made of steel of density
32. A sonometer with resonates with a given tuning fork forming
standing waves with five antinodes between the two bridges, 7.7 103 kg / m 3 and Young’s modulus 2 1011 N / m2 . It is
when a mass of 9 kg is suspended by the wire. When an maintained at a tension which produces an elastic strain of
additional mass m is attached, the wire resonates with the 1% in the [Link] fundamental frequency of transverse
same tuning fork forming three antinodes for the same position vibrations of string is
of the bridges. The value of m is (a) 85 Hz (b) 170 Hz (c) 340 Hz (d) 310 Hz
(A) 25 kg (B) 20 kg (C) 16 kg (D) 12 kg 38. A massless rod is suspended by two identical strings AB and
33. Four open organ pipes of different lengths and different gases CD of equal length. A block of mass m is suspended from
at same temperature as shown in figure. Let fA, fB, fC and fD point O, such that BO is equal to x. Further, it is observed that
be their fundamental frequencies, then (Take, CO 7 / 5 ) the frequency of fundamental note in AB is equal to 2nd
2
harmonic frequency in CD. Then, length of BO is
L 4L 3L L
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(A) f A / f B 2 (B) f B / f C 72 / 28 5 5 4 4
39. At t = 0, a transverse wave pulse travelling in the positive x-
(C) f C / f D 11/ 28 (D) f D / f A 76 / 11 direction with a speed of 2 m/s in a wire is described by the
34. Two wires of same material and radii r and 2r respectively, 6
are welded together end-to end and the combination is used function y . Given that x 0 .Transverse velocity of a
x2
in the sonometer and is kept under tension T. The welded
particle at x = 2 m and t = 2 s is
point is midway between the bridges in the sonometer. What
(A) 3 m/s (B) –3 m/s (C) 8 m/s (D) –8 m/s
should be the ratio of number of loops formed in wires, such
40. If the initial tension on a stretched string is doubled, then
that the joint is a nide?
the ratio of the initial and final speeds of a transverse
(a) 2 : 3 (b) 1: 4 (c) 1: 2 (d) 1: 3
35. The equation of the standing wave in a string clamped at wave along the string is
both ends, vibrating in its third harmonic is given by y = 0.4 (A) 2 : 1 (B) 1 : 2 (C) 1 : 2 (D) 1 : 1
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AB C D AB C D AB C D AB C D AB C D
1. O O O O 9. O O O O 17. O O O O 25. O O O O 33. O O O O
2. O O O O 10. O O O O 18. O O O O 26. O O O O 34. O O O O
3. O O O O 11. O O O O 19. O O O O 27. O O O O 35. O O O O
4. O O O O 12. O O O O 20. O O O O 28. O O O O 36. O O O O
5. O O O O 13. O O O O 21. O O O O 29. O O O O 37. O O O O
6. O O O O 14. O O O O 22. O O O O 30. O O O O 38. O O O O
7. O O O O 15. O O O O 23. O O O O 31. O O O O 39. O O O O
8. O O O O 16. O O O O 24. O O O O 32. O O O O 40. O O O O
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