omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 609 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 347.8 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 1.75 meters9.57 meters1.14 meters0.57 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 9.1 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 54.6 m/sec3.03 m/sec27.3 m/sec1.52 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 280 m/sec and a wavelength of 9.1 meters. What is this wave's period? 2.89 x 102 seconds2.71 x 102 seconds3.08 x 101 seconds3.25 x 10-2 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 0.28 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 8.93 x 10-1 Hz1.12 x 100 Hz1.79 x 100 Hz3.57 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 3.045 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 2.72 x 100 m/sec1.09 x 101 m/sec3.41 x 100 m/sec5.44 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 6.12 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 2.45 x 10-7 meters2.04 x 106 meters4.9 x 10-7 meters1.63 x 10-15 meters

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