omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 473 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 344.8 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 1.37 meters1.46 meters8.18 meters0.73 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 8.1 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 48.6 m/sec2.70 m/sec1.35 m/sec24.3 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 230 m/sec and a wavelength of 8.1 meters. What is this wave's period? 3.52 x 10-2 seconds2.38 x 102 seconds2.84 x 101 seconds2.22 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 0.23 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 9.2 x 10-1 Hz4.35 x 100 Hz2.17 x 100 Hz1.09 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 2.365 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 1.03 x 101 m/sec2.18 x 100 m/sec2.57 x 100 m/sec5.14 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 6.24 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 1.6 x 10-15 meters2.41 x 10-7 meters4.81 x 10-7 meters2.08 x 106 meters

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