omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 446 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 344.8 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 1.55 meters1.29 meters7.91 meters0.77 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 4.8 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 0.96 m/sec24.0 m/sec12.0 m/sec1.92 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 230 m/sec and a wavelength of 4.8 meters. What is this wave's period? 4.79 x 101 seconds2.35 x 102 seconds2.25 x 102 seconds2.09 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 0.23 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 4.35 x 100 Hz1.09 x 100 Hz2.17 x 100 Hz9.2 x 10-1 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 2.23 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 4.85 x 100 m/sec2.42 x 100 m/sec9.7 x 100 m/sec2.05 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 5.54 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 1.85 x 106 meters1.81 x 10-15 meters5.42 x 10-7 meters2.71 x 10-7 meters

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