
A disc of radius oscillates as a physical pendulum about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the disc at a distance from its centre. Consider a distance from the centre. What is the approximate period of oscillation ?
(Take )

Important Questions on Oscillations

The position co-ordinates of a particle moving in a coordinate system is given by
and
The speed of the particle is:






An ideal gas enclosed in a vertical cylindrical container supports a freely moving piston of mass . The piston and the cylinder have equal cross-sectional area . When the piston is in equilibrium, the volume of the gas is and its pressure is . The piston is slightly displaced from the equilibrium position and released. Assuming that the system is completely isolated from its surrounding, the piston executes a simple harmonic motion with frequency
[Assume the system is in space.]







A source of sound emits sound waves at frequency . It is moving towards an observer with fixed speed , where is the speed of sound in air). If the observer were to move towards the source with speed , one of the following two graphs (A and B) will give the correct variation of the frequency heard by the observer as is changed.
The variation of with is given correctly by:









