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Period: Wave Unit Practice Test Do your best!

1) The diagram below represents a transverse wave. 6) Base your answer to the following question on the
diagram of a Slinky spring shown below.

The wavelength of the wave is equal to the distance

between points The type of wave represented on the Slinky is a
A) A and G B) B and F A) longitudinal wave B) light wave
C) C and E D) D and F C) transverse wave D) water wave
2) The energy of a sound wave is most closely related to 7) What is the period of a sound wave having a
the wave's frequency of 340. hertz?
A) frequency B) amplitude A) B)
C) wavelength D) speed C) D)
3) In the diagram below, which wave has the largest 8) The time required for a wave to complete one full
amplitude? cycle is called the wave’s
A) frequency B) period
C) velocity D) wavelength
9) A boy pushes his sister on a swing. What is the
frequency of oscillation of his sister on the swing if
the boy counts 90. complete swings in 300. seconds?
A) 0.30 Hz B) 2.0 Hz
C) 1.5 Hz D) 18 Hz
A) A B) B C) C D) D 10) A wave completes one vibration as it moves a
4) When a transverse wave is moving through a distance of 2 meters at a speed of 20 meters per
medium, what is the action of the particles of the second. What is the frequency of the wave?
medium? A) 10 Hz B) 2 Hz
A) They travel through the medium with the wave. C) 20 Hz D) 40 Hz
B) They vibrate in a direction parallel to the 11) Sound waves with a constant frequency of 250 hertz
direction in which the wave is moving. are traveling through air at STP. What is the
C) They vibrate in a direction perpendicular to the wavelength of the sound waves?
direction in which the wave is moving.
A) 0.76 m B) 1.3 m
D) They remain at rest.
C) 250 m D) 83,000 m
5) Which form(s) of energy can be transmitted through a
vacuum?
A) light, only
B) sound, only
C) both light and sound
D) neither light nor sound
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12) The periodic wave in the diagram below has a 17) The diagram below shows two waves traveling in
frequency of 40. hertz. the same medium. Points A, B, C, and D are located
along the rest position of the medium. The waves
interfere to produce a resultant wave.

What is the speed of the wave?

A) 13 m/s B) 27 m/s
C) 60. m/s D) 120 m/s
13) A student sees a train that is moving away from her
and sounding its whistle at a constant frequency.
Compared to the sound produced by the whistle, the
sound observed by the student is
A) greater in amplitude The superposition of the waves produces the greatest
B) a transverse wave rather than a longitudinal positive displacement of the medium from its rest
wave position at point
C) higher in pitch A) A B) B C) C D) D
D) lower in pitch
18) The diagram below represents a rope along which
14) As two trucks approach each other, the driver of one two pulses of equal amplitude, A, approach point P.
truck sounds his horn. Compared to the true
frequency of the horn when the trucks are stationary,
the frequency heard by the other driver will be
A) lower B) higher
As the two pulses pass through point P, the
C) the same
maximum vertical displacement of the rope at point
15) What is characteristic of both sound waves and P will be
electromagnetic waves?
A) A B) 2A C) 0 D) A/2
A) They require a medium.
19) The diagram below shows two sources, A and B,
B) They transfer energy. vibrating in phase in the same uniform medium and
C) They are mechanical waves. producing circular wave fronts.
D) They are longitudinal waves.
16) A single vibratory disturbance that moves from point
to point in a medium is called a
A) period B) periodic wave
C) wavelength D) pulse

Which phenomenon occurs at point P?

A) destructive interference
B) constructive interference
C) reflection
D) refraction
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20) The diagram below represents a standing wave in a string.

Maximum constructive interference occurs at the

A) antinodes A, C, and E B) nodes A, C, and E
C) antinodes B and D D) nodes B and D