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Class : XI - PHYSICS
Assignment 1 PHYSICAL WORLD AND MEASUREMENT
Give Dimensions of following quantities :Power (ii) Relative Density (iii) Solid angle (iv) Resistance (v) Amount of heat (vi) G
2. Velocity of sound (v) depends upon
(i)
density ( )
(ii)
modulus of elasticity, E (dimensional formula of E is ML-1T-2). Deduce a formula for v.
1.
(i)

A planet moves around the sun in nearly circular orbit. Its period of revolution T depends upon :
Radius r of orbit
(ii) mass M of the sun and (iii) the gravitational constant G..
Show dimensionally
that T2 r3
4. In the equation : Y = a Sin (t-kx), where t and x stand for time and distance respectively.
Obtain the
1
1
dimensional formula for w and k. (Ans: T
, K L )
3.
(i)

5.
(i)

6.

Name the physical quantities whose dimensional formulae are as follows:

[M1L2T-2]
(ii) [M1L2T-3]
(iii)[ M1T-2]
(iv) [M1L-1T-1 ] (v) [M1L-1T-2]
State the number of significant figures in the following:

(i) 453.5
(ii) 53,000,000
(iv) 0.000243 (v) 0.0650
7.
(i)

(iii) 400.08
(vi) 2.43 x 105 Ans. (4, 2, 5, 3, 3, 3)

. Round the following numbers as indicated:

18.35 upto 3 digits (ii) 143.45 upto 4 digit

8.

The measure of the diameter of a cylinder is (1.60 0.01) cm and its length is (5.0 0.1) cm. Calculate the
percentage error in its volume. (3.25%)

9.

The time period of oscillation of a simple pendulum is T = 2

L
, L is about 10 cm and is known to 1mm
g

accuracy. The time period of oscillations is about 0.5 sec. The time of 100 oscill is measured with a
wristwatch to an accuracy of 1 sec. Resolution. What is the accuracy in determination of g? (Ans.5%)
10.

In an experiment to determine specific resistance of a metal wire, following observations were recorded R
= (642) , l = (156.0 0.1)cm , r = (0.26 0.02) cm

r 2 R
. Find the percentage error in .
Given =
l

11.
12.

13.
14.
15.
16.
17.

Force (F) and density (d) are related as F =

(Ans. 18.5%)

, find dimensions of a and

d

m
The density of a piece of metal of a mass m and volume V is given by the formulae
. If
V
m 375.32 0.01g , V 136.41 0.01cm 3 . Find % error in .
If two resistances of values R1 = (2.0 0.1) and R2 = (12.3 0.2) are put in parallel, find the error in the
equivalent resistance.
The radius of a sphere is measured with an error of 3%. Find the % error in the measure of its (i) area (ii)
volume.
If the length and time period of an oscillating pendulum have errors of 1% and 2% respectively, what is the
error in estimate of g ?
If x a 2 bt c where x is displacement, as a function of time. Write the dimensions of a, b and c.
A rectangular plate has a length of (21.30.2) cm and a width of (9.800.10)cm. Calculate the area of the
plate and also the percentage error.
[Ans. (2094)cm2, 2%]

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Class : XI - PHYSICS
Assignment 2 KINEMATICS
CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS
1.

Can a body be at rest as well as in motion at the same time?

2.

Can a body have an acceleration with zero velocity?

3.

Position time graph of two objects A and B are given below. Which one is having more velocity?
Why?

4.

Can the direction of velocity of a body change when its acceleration is constant? Give example.

5.

Which one of the following graph is not possible? Why?

6.

Can the rectangular component of a vector be greater than the vector itself?

7.

Which component of velocity of a projectile remains same throughout the time of flight?

8.

A hunter aims his gun and fires directly at a bird sitting on a tree. The moment the bullet leaves the
barrel of the gun, the bird falls. Will the bullet hit the bird?

9.

Can an object be accelerated without speeding up?

10.

Which physical quantities can be calculated from the slope of s-t and v-t graph?

NUMERICAL PROBLEMS
11.

A motor ship covers a distance of 300 km between two localities on a river in 10 hours downstream
and 12 hours upstream. Find the velocity of the river and the velocity of the motor ship in still
water. [2.5 km/h, 27.5 km/h]

12.

The displacement x of a particle moving in one dimension is related to time t as,

x 3
Find the displacement of the particle when the velocity is zero.
[Ans.0]

13.

A car start from rest and accelerates uniformly for 10 seconds to a velocity of 36 km/h. It then runs
at constant velocity and is finally brought to rest in 50 m, with a constant retardation. The total
distance covered by the car is 500 m. Find the value of acceleration.
[1 m/s2 , -1 m/s2 , 60 sec.]
A body moving with uniform acceleration covers 24 m in the 4th second and 36 m in the 6th second.
Calculate its acceleration and initial velocity.
[6 m/s2 , 3m/s]

14.

15.

A target is fixed on the top of a pole 13 metre high. A person standing at a distance of 50 m from
the pole is capable of projecting a stone with a velocity 10 g m/s. If he wants to strike the target
is shortest possible time, at what angle should he project the stone. [30o58]

16.

Show that when the horizontal range is maximum the maximum height attained by the body is one
fourth the maximum horizontal range.

17.

A ball is projected vertically upwards. Plot a (v-t) graph to represent the velocity of the ball during
its flight when air resistance is ignored.

18.

Prove that the velocity at the end of a flight of an obligue projectile is the same in magnitude as at
the beginning but the angle that it makes with the horizontal is negative of the angle of projection.

19.

A particle moves in the XY plane in such a way that its coordinates X and Y vary with time as X =
t3 32 t;
Y = 5t2 + 12 where X and Y in metres and t in sec. Find position, velocity
and acceleration of the particle at t = 3 sec.
[Ans.

r = ( -69

v = (-5

i 57 j
^

i 30 j) m/se

a = 18

20.

i 10 j

m/sec2

Given Fig. shows the speed time graph of a car

i)
ii)
iii)

21.

What is the acceleration of the car in first two hours, in the next two hours and in the last two
hours?
What is the total distance traveled by the car?
What is the average speed of the car?

Velocity time graph of moving particle has been shown. Find the displacement covered by the
particle in time intervals i) 0sec to 4 sec ii) 0sec to 8sec, and iii) 0sec to 12 sec from the graph.

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Class : XI PHYSICS
ASSIGNMENT - 3
LAWS OF MOTION
1. Why does a cyclist lean to one side while going along a curve?
2. Why does an electric fan continue to rotate for sometime after the current is switched off?
3. Define 1 Kg wt.
4. In which case the rope will have greater tension?
(a) Two men pull the ends of the rope with forces F equal in magnitude but opposite in direction.
(b) One end of the rope is fastened to a fixed support and the other is pulled by a man with a
force 2 F.
5. A nucleus is at rest in the laboratory frame of reference. Show that if it disintegrates into two
smaller nuclei, they must fly in opposite direction.
6. A soda water bottle is falling freely. Will the bubbles of the gas rise in the water of the bottle?
7. Can a body remain in rest position when external forces are acting on it?
8. The distance travelled by a moving body s directly proportional to time. Is any external force acting
on it?
9. Why does a gun recoil when a bullet is fired?
10. How angle of repose is related to co-efficient of friction?
NUMERICALS
11. A hunter has a machine gun that can fire 50g bullets with a velocity of 150 m/s. A 60 Kg tiger
springs at him with a velocity of 10m/s. How many bullets must the hunter fire into the tiger in
order to stop him in his track?
(Ans. 80)
12. A mass of 200 kg is placed on a rough inclined plane of angle 30o. If

1
3

. Find the least and

the greatest force acting parallel to the plane to keep the mass in equilibrium. (Ans: 0, 1960N)
13. Force-time graph for a linear motion is shown below. Find out the linear momentum gained
between 0 to 8 second.
(Ans. 0 N.S)

14. A batsman deflects a ball at an angle of 90o without changing its initial speed of 54km/hr. Calculate
the impulse imparted to the ball if mass of the ball is 0.15kg.
(Ans. 3.182 kgm/s)
15. A horizontal force of 500N pull two masses 10kg and 20kg. lying on a frictionless table connected
by light string. What is the tension in the string in each case?

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Class : XI - PHYSICS
Assignment 4 WORK, POWER , ENERGY
1.

A particle is moving in a circular path of given radius with (i) constant (ii) increasing (iii)
decreasing number of rotations per second. What happens to work done in three cases.?

2.

The momentum of a body is increased by 50%. What is the percentage change in its kinetic energy.
(Ans :-125%)

3.

A bob A of a pendulum released from 45 o to the vertical hits the second lob B of the same mass
resting on a table. How high does the bob A rise after collision if it is elastic.

4.

Can the potential energy of an object be negative?

5.

Does the work done in lifting a box on to a platform depends upon how fast it is raised? If not why?

6.

Is it possible to have a collision in which all kinetic energy is lost?

7.

Can a body have energy without having momentum and have momentum without having energy?
Explain.

8.

A body of mass 1 kg initially at rest explodes and breaks into three fragments of masses in the ratio
1:1:3. The two pieces of equal mass fly off perpendicular to each other with a speed of 30 m|s each.
What is the velocity of the heavier fragment. (Ans 10 2 m|s ).

9. A body of mass 10 kg falls from a height of 1 m on a spring of force constant 2 x 104 N|m. Calculate
the compression of the spring if the energy of falling body is fully transmitted to the spring.
(g=10 m|s2) (Ans: 10 cm)
10.

A body of mass 0.3 kg is taken up on inclined plane of length 10 m and height 5 m, and then allowed
to slide down to the bottom again. The coefficient of friction between the body and the plane is 0.15.
What is the (i) work done by the gravitational force over the round trip.
(i) work done by the applied force over the upward journey (ii) work done by the frictional force
over the round trip (iii) kinetic energy of the body at the end of the trip.

11.

A cyclist climbing up an inclined road maintain a constant speed of 18 km/h. The total mass of the
cycle plus the cyclist is 120 kg. If the angle of the inclination is 30 o, what is the minimum power
expended by the cyclist? (Ans 2940 W)

12.

The bob of a pendulum is released from a

horizontal position A as shown in figure. If
the length of the pendulum is 1.5 m, what is
the speed with which the bob arrives at the
lower most point B, given that it dissipates 5%
of the initial energy against air resistance.
(Ans. 5.285 m|s)

13.

A ball is dropped from rest at a height of 12m. If it loses 25% of its kinetic energy on striking the
ground, what is the height to which it bounces? How do you account the loss in K-E .
(Ans h = 9 m).

14.

A stone of mass 100 g is suspended from the end of a weightless string of length 1 m and is allowed to
swing in a vertical plane. The speed of the mass is 2m -1s when the string makes an angle of 60 o with
the vertical. Calculate the tension in the string at = 60 o. Also calculate the speed of the stone when
it is in the lowest position. Given g = 9.8m-2s. [Ans. 0.89N, 3.7 m-1s]

15. A force

^ ^

k( y i x j) , where k is a positive constant, act on a particle moving in the x y plane.

Starting from the origin, the particle is taken along the positive x axis to a point (a, 0) and then
parallel to the y axis to the point (a, a). Calculate the total work done by the force on the particle.

AHLCON PUBLIC SCHOOL

Class : XI - PHYSICS
Assignment 5 SYSTEM OF PARTICLES & ROTATIONAL MOTION.
1. Should the centre of mass of a body necessarily lie inside the body?
2. If two particles of masses m1 and m2 move with velocities v1 and v2 towards each other on a smooth
horizontal surface, what is the velocity of their centre of mass.
3. What happens to the moment of force about a point, if the line of action of force moves towards the
point?
4. If a body is rotating, is it necessarily being acted by an external torque?
5. Why a force is applied at right angles to the door at the outer edge while closing or opening it?
6. Does the moment of inertia of a rigid body change with change
a) Of axis of rotation
b) Speed of rotation.
7. Two solid spheres of same mass are made of metals of different densities. Which of them has a
larger moment of inertia about the diameter?
8. If earth were to shrink suddenly, what would happen to the length of the day?
9. A particle moves in a circular path with decreasing speed. What happens to its angular momentum?
10. A particle performing uniform circular motion has angular momentum L. What will be the new
angular momentum, if its angular frequency is doubled and its kinetic energy halved? (Ans.

L
)
4

11. A circular plate of uniform thickness has a diameter of 56 cm. A circular portion of diameter 42 cm
is removed from one edge of the plate. Find the centre of mass of the remaining portion.(Ans.9 cm)
12. A force of

F K

acts at the origin of the coordinate system. What is the torque about the

point (1, -1)?

(Ans. F(i+j)

^ ^ ^

13. Two particles of masses 100g and 300g at a given time have positions

^ ^ ^

2i 5 j13k 6i 4 j 2k
and

m,

^ ^ ^

respectively and velocities

7 i 9 j 6 k

ms-1 respectively. Determine the instantaneous position and

velocity of centre of mass.

[Ans.

16 i17 j 7 k
m
4
31i 34 j15 k ]
m/ s
4

14. Four particles of masses 4kg, 2kg, 3kg and 5kg are located at the four corners A, B, C & D of a
square of side 1m. Calculate the moment of inertia of the system about
i)

ii)

An axis passing through the point of intersection of the diagonals and perpendicular to the
plane of the square.
The side AB and (iii) the diagonal BD
[Ans. (i) 7kgm2
(ii) 8kg m2
(iii) 3.5kg m2]

15. Calculate the kinetic energy of rotation of a circular disc of mass 1 kg and radius 0.2m rotating
about an axis passing through its centre and perpendicular to its plane. The disc is making 30/
rotations per minute.
[Ans. 0.01J]
AHLCON PUBLIC SCHOOL
CLASS-XI Sub: - PHYSICS
Assignment no-6
Chapter: - GRAVITATION
1. If two spheres of same material and same radius r are touching each other, how will the force of
attraction vary with r.
2. A small mass is released by an astronaut in a satellite in space. Will it fall on the earth?
3. Why are we not thrown off the surface of the earth by centrifugal force?
4. A man at the top of a tower throws an object horizontally whereas he simply drops another. Will
those two objects reach the earth at the same time? Justify your answer.
5. In case of earth, at what points its gravitational field zero and at what points is gravitational
potential zero.
6. When a pendulum clock is taken to a mountain it becomes slow. But a wrist watch controlled by a
spring remains unaffected. Why?
7. A satellite of small mass burns during its descent and not during ascent. Why?
8. Is it possible to place an artificial satellite in an orbit such that is always visible over New Delhi?
9. Lighter gases like H2, He etc. are rare in the atmosphere of earth. Why?
10. The sun attracts all bodies on the earth. At midnight, when the sun is directly below, it pulls a body
in the same direction as the pull of earth on that body; at noon. When the sun is directly above, it
pulls on a body in a direction opposite to the pull of the earth. Then will the weight of the body be
greater at midnight than at noon.
NUMERICALS
11. The distance of two planets from the sun are 1013 m and 1012m respectively. Find the ratio of time
periods and speeds of the two planets.
[Ans. 1 / 10 ]
12. A mass of 0.5kg is weighed on a balance at the top of a tower 20m high. The mass is then
suspended from the pan of the balance by a fine wire 20m long and is reweighed. Find the change
in weight. Assume that the radius of the earth is 6400km.
[Ans. 3.125 10 6 kgf ]
13. A mass M is broken into two parts of masses m1 and m2. How are m1 and m2 related so that force of
gravitational attraction between the two parts is maximum? [Ans. M/2]
14. Draw graphs showing the variation of acceleration due to gravity with (i) height above the earths
surface and (ii) depth below the earths surface.

15. The distance between the centres of two stars is 10 a. The masses of these stars are M and 16M and
their radii a and 2a respectively. A body of mass m is fired straight from the surface of the larger
star towards the smaller star. What should be its minimum initial speed to reach the surface of the
smaller star? Obtain the expression in terms of G, M and a.

5GM
[Ans. 3 2
]
a

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Sub: - PHYSICS
CLASS-XI
Assignment no-7
Chapter: - PROPERTIES OF BULK MATTER
CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS
1)

Why does a spring balance show wrong measure after long use?

2)

Why springs are made of steel and not copper?

3)

A wire is replaced by another wire of same length and material but of twice diameter.
1)

What will be the effect on the increase in its length under a given load?

2)

What will be the effect on the maximum load which it can bear?

4)

A heavy wire is suspended from a roof but no weight in attached to the wire. Is the wire under stress?

5)

Identical springs of the steel and copper are equally stretched. In which case more work in done.

6)

When air is blown in between the two balls suspended from a string such that they do not touch each other,
what will happen to the balls? Give reason.

7)

A flask contains glycerin and the other one contains water. Both are stirred rapidly and kept on the table. In
which flask will the liquid came to rest earlier than the other one and why?

8)

Why dust generally settles down in a closed room?

9)

Why clothes becomes water proof when wax is rubbed on them?

10)

What will happen if the length of the capillary tube is smaller than the height to which the liquid rises?

11)

Air is blown into a soap bubble. What will be the effect on the pressure inside a soap bubble?

12)

How will the rise of a liquid be affected if the top of the capillary tube is closed?

13)

Why the addition of flux makes soldering easy?

14)

Why the bubbles are emitted when a piece of chalk is immersed in water?

15)

Why a rain drop falling freely does not acquire a high velocity.

16)

What is the potential energy of the soap film formed on a frame of area 4x10 -3m? If the area of the film
is reduced to half, what is the change in its potential energy?
Given surface tension =40x10-3N/m)

[Ans. 32x10-5J, 16x10-5J]

17)

How much decrease in the volume of a sample of water from the following data. Initial
volume = 2000cm3 initial pressure= 108N/m, final pressure =1010N/m.
Compressibility of water = 50x10-11N m
[Ans. 9.9x10-3m3]

18)

A copper wire whose length is 10m and a steel wire of length 6m long having each of cross section 0.8cm
are fastened end to end and stretched by a tension of 1000N. What is the change in length of each wire and
energy stored.
[Ans.12.50x10-4m, 3.75x10-4m, 0.8125J]

19)

20)

Water is flowing continuously from a tap having a bore of internal diameter 8x10 -3m. Calculate the
diameter of the water stream at a distance 0.2m below the tap is 0.4m/s. (g=10m/s)
[Ans. 3.54x10-3m]
If a tube having small length, of radius 1mm is immersed in water (surface tension 0.07N/m) whose 1cm
length is projecting vertically upwards outside the water. Calculate the radius
of the meniscus.
[Ans. 1.4 mm]

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Sub: - PHYSICS
CLASS-XI
Assignment no-8
Chapter: - Thermodynamic & Behaviour of perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory
1)

Is it possible to heat a body without providing heat energy? How?

2)

Can a room be cooled by leaving the door of an electric refrigerator open?

3)

A piece of lead is hammered. Does its internal energy increase? Does heat enter the lead from outside?

4)

A brass rod at 30oc is observed to be 1 metre long when measure by a steel which is correct at 0 oc. Find
the correct length of the rod at 0oC Given for steel = 0.000012/oC, for brass= 0.000019/oc. [Ans.
99. 98 cm]

5)

How many grams of ice at -14oc are needed to cool 200 grams of water from 25oc to 10oC. Take sp. heat
of ice =0.5cal/g/oc and latent heat of ice=80 cal/o C.
[Ans. m=31grams]

6)

The velocity of three molecules is 3 , 4 and 5 . Calculate the r.m.s velocity.

[Ans. 4v].

7) The absolute temperature of gas is increase 3 times. What will be the increase in r.m.s. velocity of the gas
molecule?
[Ans. 0.732c]
8) On reducing the volume of the gas at constant temperature, the pressure of the gas increase? Explain on the
basis of kinetic Theory.
9) Why cooling is caused by evaporation?
10) At what temperature, pressure remaining unchanged, will the r.m.s. velocity of hydrogen be double its value
at N.T.P.
[Ans. 819c]
11) A bras disc fits snugly in a hole in a steel plate. Would
the hole?

you heat or cool the system to loosen the disc from

12) A circular hole of radius 1cm is drilled in brass sheet at 293k. What will be the diameter of this hole when the
sheet is heated to 393k? Given for brass =18x10-6k-1 [Ans. 2.0036cm)
13) Explain why
1.

2.

Two bodies at different temperature T1 and T2 if brought in thermal contact do not

necessarily settle to the mean temperature (T 1 + T2)/2
Air pressure in a car tyre increase during driving.

14) A slab of ice at 273K and atmospheric pressure melts

a. What is the nature of the work done on the Ice water system by the atmosphere?
b. What happens to the internal energy of the ice water system?

15) The volume of steam produced by 1 g of water at 100oC is 1650 cm3. Calculate the change in internal
energy during the change of state. Given J = 4.2 107 erg cal -1,
g = 981 cm/ sec2 , L = 540 cal/g.

(Ans. 2.1 10 10 erg.)

16) Calculate the heat required to convert 2kg. of ice at -15 oC kept in a chamber of negligible heat capacity to
steam at 100oC at atmospheric pressure. Given that specific heat capacity of ice = 2100J/Kg/K, specific heat
capacity of water = 4186 J/Kg/K, Latent heat of fusion of ice = 3.35 105 J/ Kg, Latent heat of steam
= 2.256 106 J/Kg.

[Ans. 6.1 106 J]

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PHYSICS
CLASS-XI
Assignment no-9
Chapter: - Oscitiation& Waves
CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)

A girl is swinging a swing in the sitting position. What shall be effect on the frequency of oscillations if
she stands up?
A vibrating simple pendulum of time period T is placed in a lift which is accelerating upwards. What will
be the effect on the time period?
Transverse waves are not produced in liquid and gases. Why?
Why is a given sound louder in a hall than in the open?
Why does a tuning fork have two prongs?
Is there a Dopplers Effect for sound when the observer or the source move at right angles to the line
joining them?
Can beats be observed in two light sources of nearly equal frequencies?
The displacement of a harmonic oscillator is given by x = a sinwt + b coswt. What is the amplitude of
the oscillation?
The displacement y ( is metre) of an oscillating particle varies with time t in sec. according to the

equation. y = 0.02 cos 0.5t

Calculate
(i) amplitude of oscillation
(ii) time period of oscillation
(iii) Max. velocity of particle (iv) Max. acceleration of particle
[Ans. 0.02m, 4sec, 3.142 x 10-2 m/se, 4.94x10-2 m/sec]
10)

A particle of mass 0.2kg execute a SHM of amplitude 2cm and period 6 sec. Find (i) the total M.E at any
instant (ii) KE (iii) P.E when displacement is 1 cm.
[Ans.4.4x10-5J, 3.3.x10-5J, 1.1x10-5J]
11)
In what time after its motion begins, will a particle oscillating according to the equation x= 7sin 0.5 t
move from the mean position to the maximum displacement.
[Ans. 1sec.]
12) A 0.3kg mass is connected to a system of two identical spring as shown in fig. Determine the period of
oscillation.
Given (k=20N/m
[Ans.0.54sec.]

13) A 200g mass as shown is pushed to the left such that the spring compresses 0.15m from its
equilibrium position. When the system is released, the mass shoot to the right. With what speed the
mass will shoot away?
[Ans.6.71m/sec]

14) A spring balance has a scale that reads from 0 to 10kg. The length of the scale is 10cms.A body suspended from
this spring, when displaced and released, oscillates with a period of /5 sec. Calculate the mass of the body.
[Ans.9.8kg]
15) The fundamental frequency of an organ pipe is 130 Hz. The frequency of the first overtone is 390 Hz.
Identify the organ pipe.

16) What is the velocity of source when the frequency appears to be half the actual frequency to a stationary
observer?
17) The extension in a string is x. The speed of the sound in the stretched string is v. What will be the speed
of the sound in the string, if the extension is increased to 1.5x?
[Ans.1.225v]
18) What is the frequency of radio waves transmitted by a station, if the wave length of these waves is 300m?
Speed of radio wave =3x108m/sec.
[Ans.1MHz]
19) A simple harmonic wave has the equation y=3.5sin(314t-1.57x).
Calculate (i) frequency
(ii) wave length of the waves, where t in sec, y in cm and x in meter
Another wave has the equation y1 = 0.1 sin (314t 1.57x + /2)
Calculate the phase different.
[Ans.50H z,4m, /2 radian]
20)

A car moving at 20m/sec.with its horn blowing (v=600Hz) is chasing another car going at 15m/sec. What is
the apparent frequency of the horn as heard by the driver being chased. Speed of sound 340m/sec.

[Ans. 609.4Hz]