Waves Assignment – Speed of waves ( July 28th 2025)
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1. The frequency of a wave is doubled. The speed of the wave does not change. What
happens to the wavelength of the wave?
a. It becomes four times as large.
b. It does not change.
c. It doubles.
d. It halves.
2. The speed of a wave is tripled while its frequency remains the same. What happens to
the wavelength of the wave?
a. It becomes three times as large.
b. It does not change.
c. It becomes one-third as large.
d. It doubles
3. The wavelength of a wave is halved, but its speed stays constant. What happens to the
frequency of the wave?
a. It becomes four times as large.
b. It does not change.
c. It doubles.
d. It halves.
4. The frequency of a wave is reduced to one-fourth its original value, and the wave speed
remains unchanged. What happens to the wavelength?
a. It becomes four times as large.
b. It does not change.
c. It doubles.
d. It halves.
5. The wavelength of a wave is doubled, and the wave speed is also doubled. What
happens to the frequency?
a. It becomes four times as large.
b. It does not change.
c. It doubles.
d. It halves.
6. A firework is fired straight upwards. It explodes 272 m above the ground. It takes the
sound wave from the firework 0.8 s to reach the ground. Calculate the speed of sound in
air.
7. A paddle vibrating up and down in a pool is used to produce waves on the water. The
wavelength of each wave is 1.2 m and exactly 2 complete waves are produced per
second. Calculate the speed of the wave.
8. A wave has a frequency of 4.0x107 Hz and a speed of 3.0x108 m/s. Calculate its
wavelength.
9. A water wave is generated by a wave machine in a pool. The wave travels to the end of
the pool, is reflected, and travels back to the wave machine. It takes 8.0 seconds for the
wave to return to the machine once it has been generated. The wave travels at a speed
of 4.5 m/s. How far from the end of the pool is the wave machine?
10. The speed of sound in seawater is known to be 1500 m/s. A sound wave with a
frequency of 3 kHz is produced under water. Calculate the wavelength of this sound
wave.
11. A firework is launched vertically and explodes 340 m above the ground. The sound from
the explosion takes 1.0 s to reach the ground. Calculate the speed of sound in air.
12. A vibrating paddle in a lake creates water waves with a wavelength of 0.8 m. If 3
complete waves are produced every second, what is the speed of the waves?
13. A radio wave has a frequency of 6.0 × 10⁷ Hz and travels at the speed of light (3.0 × 10⁸
m/s). What is its wavelength?
14. A wave machine in a lake generates waves that travel to the shore, reflect, and return in
6.0 seconds. If the wave speed is 3.0 m/s, how far is the wave machine from the shore?
15. The speed of sound in freshwater is 1480 m/s. A sonar pulse with a frequency of 2.5 kHz
is emitted. What is the wavelength of the sound wave?
16. A sound wave travels at 340 m/s in air. If its wavelength is 0.5 m, what is its frequency?
17. A boat generates waves with a speed of 2.4 m/s. If the wavelength is 0.6 m, how many
waves are produced each second?
18. A sonar signal in seawater (speed = 1500 m/s) has a wavelength of 0.5 m. What is its
frequency?
19. A wave on a string travels at 12 m/s. If 4 complete waves pass a point in 2 seconds, what
is the wavelength?
20. An explosion occurs 510 m above the ground, and the sound reaches the ground after
1.5 s. What is the speed of sound in this scenario?
