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The speed of a wave on a string is 150 m/s when the tension is 120 N. The percentage increase in the tension in order to raise the wave speed by 20% is

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Important Questions on Wave Motion on a String

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A particle of mass 23 kg with velocity v=-15 m s-1 at t=-2 s is acted upon by a force F=k-βt2. Here, k=8 N and β=2 N s-2. The motion is one-dimensional. Then, the speed at which the particle acceleration is zero again, is
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A transverse wave along a stretched string has a speed of 30 m s-1 and a frequency of 250 Hz. The phase difference between two points on the string, 10 cm apart, at the same instant is
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A ball is moving uniformly in a circular path of radius 1 m with a time period of 1.5 s. If the ball is suddenly stopped at t=8.3 s, the magnitude of the displacement of the ball with respect to its position at t=0 s is closest to:
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A point particle is acted upon by a restoring force -kx3. The time period of oscillation is T when the amplitude is A. The time period for an amplitude 2A will be:
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A transverse wave is represented by : y = 1 0 π sin 2 π T t - 2 π λ x  For what value of the wavelength the wave velocity is twice the maximum particle velocity?
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On an average, a human heart is found to beat 72 times a minute. Its frequency and period are
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The phase difference between the following two waves y2 and y1 is:

y1=asinωt-kx

y2=bcosωt-kx+π3

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Two simple harmonic motion, are represented by the equations y1=10sin3πt+π3;  y2=5(sin3πt+3cos3πt). Ratio of amplitude of y1 to y2=x:1. The value of x is

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A simple wave motion is represented by y=5sin4πt+3cos4πt. Its amplitude is

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A simple harmonic progressive wave is represented as y=0.03 sinπ2t-0.01x m. At a given instant of time, the phase difference between two particles 25 m apart is
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A transverse wave described by y=0.02 msin1.0 m-1x+30 s-1t propagates on a stretched string having a linear mass density of 1.2×10-4 kg m-1. Tension in the string is
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The displacement of a wave is represented by y=0.6×10-3sin500t-0.05x, where all the quantities are in their proper units. The maximum particle velocity in ms-1 of the medium is
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Two waves are represented by: x1=Asinωt+π6 and x2=Acosωt. Then the phase difference between them is
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The distance between two points differing in phase by 60° on a wave having wave velocity 360 m s-1 and frequency 500 Hz is
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A transverse wave is represented by x=Asin(kx-ωt). The velocity of the wave is given by ________
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A uniform rope of length L and mass m1, hangs vertically from a rigid support. A block of mass m2 is attached to the free end of the rope. A transverse pulse of wavelength λ1 is produced at the lower end of the rope. The wavelength of the pulse when it reaches the top of the rope is λ2. The ratio λ2λ1 is:
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A longitudinal wave is represented by y=10sin2πnt-xλ cm. The maximum particle velocity will be four times the wave velocity if the determined value of wavelength is equal to
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A travelling wave in a medium is given by the equation y=asin (ωt-kx). The maximum acceleration of the particle in the medium is
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The figure below shows pressure variation in two different sound waves in air with time at a given position. Both the figures are drawn to the same scale.

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Which of the following statement is true?

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Consider a wire with density d and stress σ. For the same density, if the stress increases 2 times, the speed of the transverse waves along the wire changes by