Unit – V – Sound & Wave-Assignemt

Velocity of wave

Where is velocity of the wave and its unit being m/s.

is the frequency of the wave its unit being s.
is the wavelength of the wave its unit being m.
v
f λ

1
or f λ
Where is the periodic time of the wave and its unit being s.
is the frequency of the wave and its unit being Hz or

1. What is the period of a water wave with a frequency of 0.5 Hz?

2. The frequency of the George Washington Bridge is 2.05 Hz. What is its period?
3. If a sound wave with a speed of 340 m/s and a frequency of 3400 Hz, what is its
wavelength?
4. What is the speed of a water wave with a frequency of 0.35 Hz and a wavelength of 7
meters?
5. What is the frequency of a wave with a speed of 45 m/s and a wavelength of 2.5 m?
6. A pendulum has a period of 2.5 seconds and a wavelength of 2.5 meters. What is its wave
speed?
7. What is the speed of a water wave with a frequency of 10 kHz and a wavelength of 2
meters?
8. If a wave with a speed of 50 cm/s and a frequency of 4 kHz, what is its wavelength?
9. Consider a wave that has a wavelength of 3.7 m. If the frequency was 2.5 Hz, then calculate
the speed of the wave.
10. A wave has a period time of 12.0 s. The distance between a crest and the adjacent trough
is 2.00 m.
(a) What is the frequency?
(b) What is the wavelength?
(c) What is the velocity?
11. The speed of a wave is 500 m/s and wavelength are 25 m, what is its frequency?
12. The wavelength of radio wave is 3000 m and frequency are 100 kHz, what is its speed?
13. What is the speed of a water wave with a frequency of 30 kHz and a wavelength of 10
meters?
14. If a wave with a speed of 11 km/s and a frequency of 5.5 kHz, what is its wavelength?
15. The frequency of a certain color of light is 4.2 × 10 . The speed of light is
3.0 × 10 / . Find its wavelength.
16. What is the frequency of a wave that has a speed of 2.45 m/s and a wavelength of 75.0 cm?
17. The speed of a longitudinal wave is 11.8 m/s. If the wave has a wavelength of 1.44 m, what
is the period of the wave?
18. Radio stations: 93.9 MHz, 97.9 MHz, 101.1 MHz, 103.5 MHz
a) Which of the above radio stations would have the highest period?
b) Which of the above ratio stations would have the shortest wavelength?
19. A Marine weather station reports waves along the shore that are 8 seconds apart. What
is the frequency of the waves?
20. A vibrating source with a frequency of 20.0 Hz produces water waves that have a
wavelength of 3.0 cm. Calculate the speed of the waves.
21. What is the period of a wave that travels through a spring at 2.5 m/s and has a wavelength
of 1.3 meters?
22. A wave travels at 10.0 m/s. If the wavelength is .10m, what are the frequency and period
of the wave?
23. It takes a water wave 5.2 seconds to travel between two docks that are 19 m apart. An
observer notices that 20. crests pass the first dock in 17 seconds. Find the wavelength of
the water waves.
24. A hiker shouts toward a cliff 685 miles away. The returning echo is heard 4.00 s later.
25. a) What is the speed of sound?
26. b) If the wavelength is .750 m, what is the frequency?
27. c) What is the period?
28. A radio station broadcasts its radio signals at 9.26 x 107Hz. Find the wavelength if the
waves travel at 3.00 x 108 m/s.
29. A sound wave produced by a clock 515 m away is heard 1.50 s later.
30. a) What is the speed of sound in the air?
31. b) The sound wave has a frequency of 426 Hz. What is the period?
32. c) What is the wavelength?
33. The annoying sound from a mosquito is produced when it beats its wings at the average
rate of 600 wing beats per second. What is the frequency of the sound waves? What is
the wavelength? (Assume the speed of sound is 340. m/s)
34. Two tuning forks with frequencies of 256 Hz and 512 Hz are struck. Which of the sounds
will move faster through air?
35. What is the speed of a sound wave with frequency 2000 Hz and wavelength 0.4m?
36. For research purposes a sonic buoy is tethered to the ocean floor and emits an infrasonic
pulse of sound. The period of this sound is 71 ms. Determine the wavelength of the sound.
37. Dogs can hear frequencies of up to 45 kHz. What is the wavelength of a sound wave with
this frequency traveling in air?
38. The distance between a loudspeaker and the left ear of a listener is 2.70 m. (a) Calculate
the time required for sound to travel this distance. (b) Assuming that the sound frequency
is 523 Hz, how many wavelengths of sound are contained in this distance?
39. The wavelength of the wave is 50 cm and speed are 9 km/s, what is its frequency?
40. A bottlenose dolphin can hear sounds with frequencies up to 150,000 Hz. If the speed of
sound in sea water is approximately 1,500 m/s, what is the wavelength?
41. If it takes 1.33 seconds for radio waves (which travel at the speed of light) to reach the
moon from Earth, how far away is the moon?
42. Joe the whistle maker knows the maximum volume for a whistle will occur if the length of
the whistle is exactly 1 4 of the wavelength. If Joe must make the whistle that plays at a
pitch of 340 Hz, how long the whistle be?
43. A certain FM radio station broadcasts electromagnetic waves at a frequency of
9.05 × 10 . These radio waves travel at a speed of 3.0 × 10 / . What is the
wavelength of these radio waves?
44. A dog whistle is designed to produce a sound with a frequency beyond that which can be
heard by humans (between 20 000 Hz and 27 000 Hz). If a particular whistle produces a
sound with a frequency of 2.5 × 10 , what is the sound’s wavelength? Assume the speed
of sound in air is 331 m/s.
45. The lowest pitch that the average human can hear has a frequency of 20 Hz. If sound with
this frequency travels through air with a speed of 331 m/s, what is its wavelength?
46. A 10 m wire is hung from a high ceiling and held tightly below by a large mass. Standing
waves are created in the wire by air currents that pass over the wire, setting it in motion.
If the speed of the standing wave is 335 m/s and its frequency is 67 Hz, what is its
wavelength?
47. Sonar is a device that uses reflected sound waves to measure underwater depths. If a sonar
signal has a frequency of 288 Hz and the speed of sound in water is 1.45 × 10 / , what
is the wavelength of the sonar signal?
48. Cicadas produce a buzzing sound that has a wavelength in air of 2.69 m. If the speed of
sound in air is 346 m/s, what is the frequency of the sound produced by a cicada? What is
its period?
49. A drum is struck, producing a wave with a wavelength of 110 cm and a speed
of2.42 × 10 / . What is the frequency of the wave? What is the period?
50. One of the largest organ pipes is in the auditorium organ in the convention hall in Atlantic
City, New Jersey. The pipe is 38.6 ft long and produces a sound with a wavelength of about
10.6 m. If the speed of sound in air is 346 m/s, what is the frequency of this sound?
51. Yellow light with a wavelength of 5.89 × 10 travels through quartz glass with a speed
of 1.94 × 10 / . What is the frequency of the light?
52. A ship anchored at sea is rocked by waves that have crests 14 m apart. The waves travel at
7.0 m/s. How often do the wave crests reach the ship?
53. A wave with a frequency of 60.0 Hz travels through vulcanized rubber with a wavelength
of 0.90 m. What is the speed of this wave?
54. A wave with a frequency of 60.0 Hz travels through steel with a wavelength of 85.5 m.
What is the speed of this wave?
55. Earthquakes generate shock waves that travel through Earth’s interior to other parts of
the world. The fastest of these waves are longitudinal waves, like sound waves, and are
 called primary waves, or just P-waves. A P-wave has a very low frequency, typically around
0.050 Hz. If the speed of a P-wave with this frequency is 8.0 km/s, what is its wavelength?
56. Earthquakes also produce transverse waves that move more slowly than the P-waves.
These waves are called Secondary waves, or S-waves. If the wavelength of an S-wave is
2.3 × 10 , and its speed is 4.5 km/s, what is its frequency?
57. A dolphin can typically hear sounds with frequencies up to 150 kHz. What is the speed of
sound in water if a wave with this frequency has a wavelength of 1.0 cm?
58. Waves in a lake are 6 m apart and pass a person on a raft every 2 s. What is the speed of
the waves?
59. A buoy bobs up and down in the ocean. The waves have a wavelength of 25 m, and they
pass the buoy at a speed of 4.0 m/s. What is the frequency of the waves? How much time
does it take for one wave to pass under the buoy?
60. Violet light has a wavelength of 4.10 × 10 . What is the frequency?
61. Green light has a frequency of 6.01 × 10 . What is the wavelength?
62. Calculate the wavelength of radiation with a frequency of 8.0 × 10 .
63. What is the wavelength of light with a frequency of 7.66 × 10 ?
64. A helium laser emits light with a wavelength of 633 nm. What is the frequency of the light?
65. What is the wavelength of X-rays having a frequency of 7.80 × 10 ?
66. An FM radio station broadcasts at a frequency of 107.9 MHz then, what is the wavelength
of the radio signal?
67. Calculate the wavelength of a photon of radiation with a frequency of 8.5 × 10
68. Calculate the wavelength of a gamma ray photon whose frequency is 5.02 × 10 ?
69. Calculate the frequency wavelength of a photon of radiation with a wavelength of
6.4 × 10 .
70. What is the frequency wavelength of light whose wavelength is 4.06 × 10 ?
71. A wave with a frequency of 14 Hz has a wavelength of 3 meters. At what speed will this
wave travel?
72. The speed of a wave is 65 m/s. If the wavelength is 0.8 meters, what is the frequency of
the wave?
73. A wave has a frequency of 46 Hz and a wavelength of 1.7 meters. What is the speed of this
wave?
74. A wave traveling at 230 m/s has a wavelength of 2.1 meters. What is the frequency of this
wave?
75. A wave has a frequency of 540 Hz and is traveling at 340 m/s. What is its wavelength?
76. What is the wavelength range for the FM radio band (88 MHz – 108 MHz)?
77. The portion of the visible spectrum that appears brightest to the human eye is around 560
nm in wavelength, which corresponds to yellow-green. What is the frequency of 560 nm
light?
78. What is the frequency of highly energetic ultraviolet radiation that has a wavelength of
125 nm?
79. When poked by a spear, an operatic soprano lets out a 1200-Hz shriek. What is its
wavelength if the speed of sound is 345 m/s?
80. What frequency sound has a 0.10-m wavelength when the speed of sound is 340 m/s?
81. Calculate the speed of sound on a day when a 1500 Hz frequency has a wavelength of 0.221
m.
82. (a) What is the speed of sound in a medium where a 100-kHz frequency produces a 5.96-
cm wavelength?
83. Dolphins make sounds in air and water. What is the ratio of the wavelength of a sound in
air to its wavelength in seawater? We know speed sound in sea water is 1540 m/s.
84. A sonar echo returns to a submarine 1.20 s after being emitted. What is the distance to the
object creating the echo? (Assume that the submarine is in the ocean, not in fresh water.)
If a submarine’s sonar can measure echo times with a precision of 0.0100 s, what is the
smallest difference in distances it can detect?
85. A physicist at a firework display times the lag between seeing an explosion and hearing its
sound, and finds it to be 0.400 s. How far away is the explosion?
86. Jerome and Claire are doing the Period of a Pendulum Lab. They observe that a pendulum
makes exactly 10 complete back and forth cycles of motion in 21.8 seconds. Determine the
period of the pendulum.
87. Strong winds can apply a significant enough force to tall skyscrapers to set them into a
back-and-forth motion. The amplitudes of these motions are greater at the higher floors
and barely observable for the lower floors. It is said that one can even observe the
vibrational motion of the Sears Tower in Chicago on a windy day. As the Sears Tower
vibrates back and forth, it makes about 8.6 vibrations in 60 seconds. Determine the
frequency and the period of vibration of the Sears Tower.
88. The spin rate of a CD-ROM varies according to the location on the disc from where data
is being accessed. When accessing data from the inner circles of the disc, the CD can spin
at a rate as high as 400 revolutions per minute. Determine the frequency (in Hertz) and
the period (in seconds) of the spinning CD.
89. Like all planets, the planet Venus orbits the Sun in periodic motion and simultaneously
spins about its axis. Just as on Earth, the time to make one complete orbit (i.e., the period
of orbit) is what defines a year. And the time to make one complete revolution about its
axis (i.e., the period of rotation) is what defines a day. The period of orbit for the Earth is
365.25 days and the period of rotation is 24 hours (1.00 day). But when these same values
for Venus are expressed relative to Earth, it is found that Venus has a period of orbit of
225 days and a period of rotation of 243 days. So, for Venus inhabitants, a day would last
longer than a year! Determine the frequency of orbit and the frequency of rotation (in
Hertz) on Venus.
90. Extreme waves along ocean waters, sometimes referred to as freak waves or rogue waves,
are a focus of much research and study among scientists. Several merchant ships report
rogue waves which are estimated to be 25 meters high and 26 meters long. Assuming that
these waves travel at speeds of 6.5 m/s, determine the frequency and the period of these
waves.
91. Tsunamis are much different than rogue waves. While rogue waves and other waves are
generated by winds, tsunamis originate from geological events such as movements of
tectonic plates. Tsunamis tend to travel very fast. A tsunami generated off the coast of
Chile in 1990 is estimated to have traveled approximately 6200 miles to Hawaii in 15
hours. Determine the speed in mi/hr and m/s. (Given: 1.0 m/s = 2.24 mi/hr)
92. A geological disturbance in California produces seismic waves which are detected in
Phoenix, approximately 990 km from the epicenter. If the waves travel 6.3 km/s,
determine the time delay between the disturbance and the detection.
93. Microbats use echolocation to navigate and hunt. They emit pulses of high frequency
sound waves which reflect off obstacles and objects in their surroundings. By detecting
the time delay between the emitted pulse and the return of the reflected pulse, a bat can
determine the location of the object. Determine the time delay between the sending of a
 pulse and the return of its reflection from an object located 12.5 m away. Approximate the
speed of the sound waves as 345 m/s.
94. Logan, Cassie and Abbey are doing the Pulse Speed Lab. Logan and Cassie stand 6.8 m
apart and stretch a zinc-coiled snakey between them. Logan introduces a pulse into the
snakey at his end. Using a stopwatch, Abbey measures that it takes 15.1 seconds for the
pulse to travel to Cassie's end and back two times. They then repeat the experiment with
a copper-coiled snakey stretched the same distance and find that pulses travel back and
forth two times in 16.9 seconds.
a. Determine the speed of the pulse in the zinc-coiled snakey.
b. Determine the speed of the pulse in the copper-coiled snakey.
95. Sachi is rock'n to her favorite radio station - 102.3 FM. The station broadcasts radio
signals with a frequency of 1.023 x 108 Hz. The radio wave signal travel through the air at
a speed of 2.997 x 108 m/s. Determine the wavelength of these radio waves.
96. A transverse wave is observed to be moving along a lengthy rope. Adjacent crests are
positioned 2.4 m apart. Exactly six crests are observed to move past a given point along
the medium in 9.1 seconds. Determine the wavelength, frequency and speed of these
waves.
97. A marine weather station detects waves which are 9.28 meters long and 1.65 meters high
and travel a distance of 50.0 meters in 21.8 seconds. Determine the speed and the
frequency of these waves.
98. Humpback whales are known to produce a collection of elaborate and repeating sounds
with frequencies ranging from 20 Hz to 10 kHz. The sound waves travel through water at
speeds of approximately 1400 m/s. Determine the wavelengths of the waves at the lower
and the upper end of this frequency range.
99. Nick and Kara were lounging on rafts in the shallow waters of the beach at Lake Bluebird.
They were spaced 1.8 meters apart. A motor boat zoomed past creating ripples which
traveled towards Nick and Kara. Nick and Kara's rafts began to bob up and down as the
ripples passed by them, making exactly 4 up and down cycles in 8.4 seconds. When Nick's
raft was at a high point, Kara's raft was at a low point and there were no crests between
their boats. Determine the wavelength, frequency and speed of the ripples Assume that
the ripples traveled in a direction parallel to the imaginary line connecting the two rafts.
100. A ruby-throated hummingbird beats its wings at a rate of about 70 wing beats per second.
a. What is the frequency in Hertz of the sound wave?
b. Assuming the sound wave moves with a velocity of 350 m/s, what is the wavelength of
the wave?
101. Ocean waves are observed to travel along the water surface during a developing storm. A
Coast Guard weather station observes that there is a vertical distance from high point to
low point of 4.6 meters and a horizontal distance of 8.6 meters between adjacent crests.
The waves splash into the station once every 6.2 seconds. Determine the frequency and
the speed of these waves.
102. Two boats are anchored 4 meters apart. They bob up and down, returning to the same up
position every 3 seconds. When one is up the other is down. There are never any wave
crests between the boats. Calculate the speed of the waves.
 Wave Calculations

Speed of a wave = wavelength x frequency The speed of a wave depends on the medium
that it is travelling through.
=

v = velocity (speed), measured in =

meters/second (m/s)
f = frequency, measured in Hertz (Hz)
λ = wavelength, measured in meters (m)
T = period, measured in seconds (s)
f = frequency, measured in Hertz (Hz = 1/s)

1. A wave along a guitar string has a frequency of 540 Hz and a wavelength of 2.5 meters. Calculate
the speed of the wave.
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= 50

= 2.5

2. The speed of sound in air is about 340 m/s. What is the wavelength of sound waves produced by
a guitar string vibrating at 490 Hz?
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=
/
= / = = = .

= 490

3. The speed of light is 300,000,000 m/s. What is the frequency of microwaves with a wavelength of
0.01 meter?
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4. What is the period of the microwaves in the question above?

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5. The string on a piano that produces an A sharp vibrates with a frequency of 235 Hz. If the sound
waves produced by this string have a wavelength (in air) of 1.49 meters, what is the speed of
sound in air?
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6. The average wavelength in a series of ocean waves is 15.0 meters. A wave crest arrives at the
shore an average of every 10.0 seconds, so the frequency is 0.100 Hz. What is the average speed
of the waves?
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7. An FM radio station broadcasts electromagnetic waves at a frequency of 94.5 MHz (equal to

94,500,000 Hz). These radio waves have a wavelength of 3.17 meters. What is the speed of the
waves?
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8. Green light has a wavelength of 0.00000052 meters. The speed of light is 300,000,000 m/s.
Calculate the frequency of green light waves with this wavelength.
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9. Calculate the period of the green light waves in the above question.
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10. What is the wavelength of a sound wave with a frequency of 220 Hz if its speed is 340 m/s?
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11. What is the period of the sound wave above?

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a. Ocean waves are hitting a beach at a rate of 3.5 Hz. (a)What is the period of the waves?
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b. Calculate the speed of the waves if the distance between wave crests is 1.3 meters.
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12. The note A above middle C on a piano emits a sound wave with a wavelength of 0.77 meters.
c. What is the frequency of the wave? Use 340 m/s as the speed of the sound wave.
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 d. What is the period of the sound wave?
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13. If the distance between 2 troughs is 2.6 meters and a wave is traveling at a speed of 129 m/s,
find the period of the wave.
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 Speed of sound in various materials
Solids v (m/s) liquids v (m/s)
aluminum 6,420 alcohol, ethyl 1,207
beryllium 12,890 alcohol, methyl 1,103
brass 4,700 mercury 1,450
brick 3,650 water, distilled 1,497
copper 4,760 water, sea 1,531
cork 500 gases (STP) v (m/s)
glass, crown 5,100 air, 0℃ 331
glass, flint 3,980 air, 20℃ 343
glass, pyrex 5,640 argon 319
gold 3,240 carbon dioxide 259
granite 5,950 helium 965
iron 5,950 hydrogen (H2) 1,284
lead 2,160 neon 435
lucite 2,680 nitrogen 334
marble 3,810 nitrous oxide 263
rubber, butyl 1,830 oxygen (O2) 316
rubber, vulcanized 54 water vapor, 134℃ 494
silver 3,650 biological materials v (m/s)
steel, stainless 5,790 soft tissues 1,540
titanium 6,070
wood, ash 4,670