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A closed organ pipe is sounded near a guitar, causing one of the strings to vibrate with large amplitude. We vary the tension of the string until we find the maximum amplitude. The string is 80% as long as the closed pipe. If both the pipe and the string vibrate at their fundamental frequency, calculate the ratio of the wave speed on the string to the speed of sound in air.

Important Questions on Sound Waves

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A police siren emits a sinusoidal wave with frequency fS=300 Hz. The speed of sound is 340 m s-1. (a) Find the wavelength of the waves if the siren is at rest in the air. (b) If the siren is moving at 30 m s-1, find the wavelength of the waves ahead of and behind the source.
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Two identical violin strings, when in tune and stretched with the same tension have a fundamental frequency of 440.0 Hz. One of the strings is retuned by adjusting its tension. When this is done, 1.5 beats per second are heard when both strings are plucked simultaneously. (a) What are the possible fundamental frequencies of the retuned string? (b) By what fractional amount was the string tension changed if it was (i) increased (ii) decreased?

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JEE Advanced
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A swimming duck paddles the water with its feet once every 1.6 s, producing surface waves with this period. The duck is moving at constant speed in a pond where the speed of surface waves is 0.32 m s-1 and the crests of the waves ahead of the duck are spaced 0.12 m apart.
(a) What is the duck's speed?
(b) How far apart are the crests behind the duck?
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JEE Advanced
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A railroad train is travelling at 30.0 m s-1 in still air. The frequency of the note emitted by the train whistle is 262 Hz. What frequency is heard by a passenger on a train moving in the opposite direction to the first at 18.0 m s-1? and (a) approaching the first? (b) receding from the first? (Speed of sound in air =340 m s-1)
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JEE Advanced
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A boy is walking away from a wall at a speed of 1.0 m s-1 in a direction at right angles to the wall. As he walks, he blows a whistle steadily. An observer towards whom the boy is walking hears 4.0 beats per second. If the speed of sound is 340 m s-1, what is the frequency of the whistle?

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JEE Advanced
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A tuning fork P of unknown frequency gives 7 beats in 2 seconds with another tuning fork Q. When Q runs towards a wall with a speed of 5 m s-1, it gives 5 beats per second with its echo. On loading P with wax, it gives 5 beats per second with Q. What is the frequency of P? Assume speed of sound =332 m s-1.
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JEE Advanced
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A stationary observer receives sonic oscillations from two tuning forks one of which approaches and the other recedes with the same velocity. As this takes place, the observer hears the beats of frequency f=2.0 Hz. Find the velocity of each tuning fork if their oscillation frequency is fo=680 Hz and the velocity of sound in air is v=340 m s-1.
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JEE Advanced
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Sound waves from a tuning fork A reach a point P by two separate paths ABP and ACP. When ACP is greater than ABP by 11.5 cm, there is a silence at P. When the difference is 23 cm, the sound becomes loudest at P and when 34.5 cm, there is a silence again and so on. Calculate the minimum frequency of the fork if the velocity of sound is taken to be 331.2 m s-1.