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1. The document discusses various topics related to acoustics and mechanical oscillations including: plotting displacement over time for different initial conditions of a simple oscillator, determining the mechanical impedance and resonance frequencies of a system, calculating the intensity of an earthquake wave at different distances from the source, and more. 2. Questions involve solving for values like the angle of refraction of an earthquake wave changing velocities, determining whether a mass-spring system is underdamped, overdamped or critically damped, drawing equivalent electrical circuits, and calculating sound pressure levels, intensities, and frequencies of standing waves. 3. Methods include using equations that relate variables like displacement, velocity, acceleration, damping, stiffness, mass, intensity

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1. The document discusses various topics related to acoustics and mechanical oscillations including: plotting displacement over time for different initial conditions of a simple oscillator, determining the mechanical impedance and resonance frequencies of a system, calculating the intensity of an earthquake wave at different distances from the source, and more. 2. Questions involve solving for values like the angle of refraction of an earthquake wave changing velocities, determining whether a mass-spring system is underdamped, overdamped or critically damped, drawing equivalent electrical circuits, and calculating sound pressure levels, intensities, and frequencies of standing waves. 3. Methods include using equations that relate variables like displacement, velocity, acceleration, damping, stiffness, mass, intensity

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1. For a simple oscillator, plot the displacement as a function of t/T for the following
condition.
a) u0 =0 and x0 /A=-1,0,1
b) x0 /A=1 and u0 /A0= -1,0,1
2. Find the mechanical impedance, the resonance frequencies and equivalent electrical
circuit for the following system.

Rm
s

3. An earth quake wave was traveling through the earth and the intensity detected 100 Km
from source was 5.0x 106 W/m2. What is the intensity of the earth quake wave at a
distance 400 km from the source?

4. An earth quake wave passes across a boundary in rock where its velocity increases from
6km/s to 8km/s if it strikes this boundary at 300 calculate the angle of refraction.

5. Consider a mass-spring system described by the equation (1) Determine the value(s) of s
for which the system is under damped over damped, and critically damped. If the
system is critically damped find out the characteristic time of the system. [6+4 ]
2
d x dx
4 + 6 +sx =0 ( 1)
dt 2 dt
6. Draw the equivalent electrical circuit for the following mechanical system and find the
mechanical impedance with its corresponding unit, where Rm=1.4 kg/s, s=30 N/m,
m=70 kg and F = 2cos 314t 5+5

Rm
s

7. An earthquake wave was traveling through the earth and the intensity detected 100 Km
from source was 5.0x 106 W/m2. Compute the phase angle between pressure and
particle velocity and magnitude of specific acoustic impedance at the detected point if
the frequency of earth quake wave is 100Hz. Where density of earth  = 5.51 g/cm³ and
velocity of the earthquake v = 8 km/s [6]

8. A critically damped shock absorber is to be design for a motorcycle of mass 200 kg. When the
shock absorber is subjected to an initial vertical velocity due to a road bump, the resulting
relaxation time is found 2 sec. Find the necessary stiffness of the shock absorber.

9. If the input voltage of a loud speaker is raised by 30% how many dB will be increase the acoustic
pressure

10. If the intensity of a sound in air at 1 kHz is 10-12W/m2. Find out the value of root mean square
pressure? Where density of air is ρ0 =1.21 kg/m3 and sound velocity is c=350 m/s

11. A loudspeaker has a sensitivity of LP=99dB at 4ft with 1 watt input power. What will be the level
of the sound pressure at 100 ft.

12. A piano string is 1.10 m long and has a mass of 9.00 g. (a) How much tension must the string be
under if it is to vibrate at a fundamental frequency of 135 Hz?

13. The equation of a plane wave given in equation no.-1. In what direction does this wave travel?

p(t )=5 cos(6 x+8 t )−−(1 )


14. An acoustic room has the dimensions 9 m x 11 m x 5 m determine the lowest standing wave
frequencies?

15. In an outdoor acoustic the ambient noise level is 70dB and a sound system generate SPL of
110dB at 4ft. How far the sound will travel before it submerged with noise.
16. An earth quake wave was traveling through the earth and the intensity detected 100 Km from
source was 16.0x 106 W/m2. What is the intensity of the earth quake wave at a distance 400 km
from the source?

17. An acoustic signal is reflected from a surface that is 80% absorptive. The reflected signal will drop
by how many dB.

18. The human leg has a measured natural frequency of around 20 Hz when in its rigid (knee locked)
position, in the longitudinal direction (i.e., along the length of the bone) assuming no damping.
What will be the maximum displacement of the leg? At t=0 the initial speed u 0=0.06 m/s and
displacement x0=0.

19. Given a small source of spherical wave in air at a radial distance of 10 cm, compute the absolute
magnitude of the specific acoustic impedance for 100Hz frequency at this location. Then density
of air ρ0=1.21 kg/m3 and velocity of sound in air c = 340m/s.

Suppose an electric fan produces sound of intensity 30 dB. How many times more intense is the
sound of a conversation if it produces an intensity of 60 dB?

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