Practice Problems
Wave Fundamentals
Directions:
On this worksheet, you will deal with the fundamental definitions of waves.
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Question 1
A sound wave has a frequency of 594 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 344.8 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions?
0.58 meters
1.72 meters
1.16 meters
9.39 meters
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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 9.4 meters. How fast are the waves traveling?
28.2 m/sec
56.4 m/sec
1.57 m/sec
3.13 m/sec
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Question 3
A wave has a speed of 230 m/sec and a wavelength of 9.4 meters. What is this wave's period?
2.39 x 10
2
seconds
2.45 x 10
1
seconds
4.09 x 10
-2
seconds
2.21 x 10
2
seconds
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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
Hz
4.35 x 10
0
Hz
2.17 x 10
0
Hz
1.09 x 10
0
Hz
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Question 5
If the wavelength is 2.97 meters in
Question 4
, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string?
1.29 x 10
1
m/sec
6.46 x 10
0
m/sec
3.23 x 10
0
m/sec
2.73 x 10
0
m/sec
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Question 6
Light has a speed in a vacuum of 3 x 10
8
m/s. The frequency of visible light is about 5.73 x 10
14
Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light?
1.91 x 10
6
meters
1.75 x 10
-15
meters
2.62 x 10
-7
meters
5.24 x 10
-7
meters
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