omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 367 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 343.6 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 0.94 meters7.11 meters1.07 meters1.87 meters omit Question 2  A fisherman notices that wave crests pass the bow of his anchored boat every 6 seconds. He measures the distance between two wave crests to be 3.7 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 22.2 m/sec0.62 m/sec11.1 m/sec1.23 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 210 m/sec and a wavelength of 3.7 meters. What is this wave's period? 2.14 x 102 seconds1.76 x 10-2 seconds5.68 x 101 seconds2.06 x 102 seconds omit Question 4  A sinusoidal wave travels along a string. The time for a particular point to move from maximum displacement to zero is 0.21 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 8.4 x 10-1 Hz2.38 x 100 Hz1.19 x 100 Hz4.76 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 1.835 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 2.18 x 100 m/sec1.54 x 100 m/sec8.74 x 100 m/sec4.37 x 100 m/sec omit Question 6  Light has a speed in a vacuum of 3 x 108 m/s. The frequency of visible light is about 4.48 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 1.49 x 106 meters6.7 x 10-7 meters3.35 x 10-7 meters2.23 x 10-15 meters

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