omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 304 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 344.8 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 6.49 meters2.27 meters0.88 meters1.13 meters omit Question 2  A fisherman notices that wave crests pass the bow of his anchored boat every 5 seconds. He measures the distance between two wave crests to be 6.5 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 1.30 m/sec32.5 m/sec2.60 m/sec16.3 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 230 m/sec and a wavelength of 6.5 meters. What is this wave's period? 2.83 x 10-2 seconds2.37 x 102 seconds2.24 x 102 seconds3.54 x 101 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 0.23 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 2.17 x 100 Hz1.09 x 100 Hz4.35 x 100 Hz9.2 x 10-1 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 1.52 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 3.3 x 100 m/sec1.65 x 100 m/sec6.61 x 100 m/sec1.4 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 4.35 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 1.45 x 106 meters2.3 x 10-15 meters6.89 x 10-7 meters3.45 x 10-7 meters

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