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Sound Problems Worksheet

This document provides a worksheet with 7 problems about sound travel and properties. The problems calculate things like: the time for sound to travel through copper, the wavelength of sound from a tuning fork, the distance to an iceberg based on an echo, the width of a valley based on echo timing, the time for a dropped stone's sound to reach the bottom of a mineshaft, the frequency of a tuning fork that resonates in a tube, and the speed of sound based on a tuning fork resonance in a closed pipe.

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Sound Problems Worksheet

This document provides a worksheet with 7 problems about sound travel and properties. The problems calculate things like: the time for sound to travel through copper, the wavelength of sound from a tuning fork, the distance to an iceberg based on an echo, the width of a valley based on echo timing, the time for a dropped stone's sound to reach the bottom of a mineshaft, the frequency of a tuning fork that resonates in a tube, and the speed of sound based on a tuning fork resonance in a closed pipe.

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Sound Problems Worksheet

Note: Use 343 m/s for sound in air if temperature is not given.

1. What time is required for sound to travel 50.0 m through a copper pipe?

2. What is the wavelength in meters of the sound produced by a tuning fork which has a
frequency of 320 Hz? The temperature of the air is 15°C.

3. The echo of a ship’s foghorn reflected from an iceberg is heard 5.0 seconds after the horn
was blown. If the temperature of the air is – 10.0°C, how far away is the iceberg?

4. A rifle is fired in a valley with parallel vertical walls. The echo from one wall is heard in 2.0
sec and the echo from the other wall is heard 2 sec later. What is the width of the valley?

5. A man drops a stone into a mineshaft 250 m deep. How many seconds pass before he hears
the stone strike the bottom of the shaft?

6. What is the frequency of a tuning fork which resonates with an open tube 25.0 cm long when
the temperature is 20.0 °C?

7. A tuning fork with a frequency of 384 Hz produces resonance with a closed pipe 20.0 cm
long. What is the speed of sound?

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