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1. Calculate the speed of sound in copper.

Ycopper =11 ×1010 Pa, ρcopper = 8960 kg/m3

2. Calculate the speed of sound in water. Bwater =2.2 ×109 Pa, ρwater = 1000 kg/m3

3. Calculate the speed of sound in air at 22oC if air is 20% oxygen gas(O2) and 80% nitrogen
gas(n2).

4. The fundamental frequency of a pipe that is open at both ends is 524 Hz.
(a) How long is this pipe?
If one end is now closed, find
(b) the wavelength and

(c) the frequency of the new fundamental.

5. Two small loudspeakers, A and B (Fig. 16.23) are driven by the same amplifier and emit
pure sinusoidal waves in phase.

(a) For what frequencies does constructive interference occur at point P?

(b) For what frequencies does destructive interference occur? The speed of sound is 350 m/s.
6. A railroad train is traveling at 25.0 m/s in still air. The frequency of the note emitted by
the locomotive whistle is 400 Hz.

What is the wavelength of the sound waves


(a) in front of the locomotive and

(b) behind the locomotive?

What is the frequency of the sound heard by a stationary listener


(c) in front of the locomotive and

(d) behind the locomotive?


7. The Eiffel Tower is a steel structure whose height increases by 19.4 cm when the
temperature changes from -9oC to +41 oC. What is the approximate height (in meters) at
the lower temperature?

8. A glass flask has a volume of 500 mL at a temperature of 20°C. The flask contains
of mercury at The temperature of the mercury and flask is raised until the
mercury reaches the reference mark. The coefficients of volume expansion of
mercury and glass are and , respectively. The temperature
at which this occurs is closest is

9. Pour a liter of water at 40℃ into a liter of water at 20℃ and the final temperature of the
two becomes
a) more than 30℃ .
b) less than 30℃ .
c) at or about 30℃ .

10. A copper calorimeter can with mass 0.1 kg contains 0.16 kg of water and 0.018 kg of ice
in thermal equilibrium at atmospheric pressure. If 0.75 kg of lead at temperature 255°C
is dropped into the calorimeter can, what is the final temperature? Assume no heat is lost
to the surroundings. [10]
Lf (ice) = 334×103J/kg , Clead = 130 J/kg.°C, Ccopper = 390 J/kg.°C

11. A 400 cm3 Pyrex beaker is filled to the top with glycerine. The system is then heated from
22°C to 80°C. How much glycerine overflows from the container?
[β(glycerine)= 5.1×10-4 °C-1, α(Pyrex)=0.3×10-5 °C-1] [8]
12. Heat transfer by the motion of mass from one region of space to another is known as…

13. Calculate the root-mean-square speed of an oxygen molecule at 27 ◦C. [2]

volume of 2.446 × 10−4 𝑚3 at 25°C. Assume that methane behaves as an ideal gas. [3]
14. Determine the pressure (in Pa) exerted by 1 mole of methane placed into a bulb with a

15. An “empty” aluminum scuba tank contains 11.0 L of air at 21°C and 1 atm. When the
tank is filled rapidly from a compressor, the air temperature is 42°C and the gauge
pressure is 2.10 ×107 Pa. What mass of air was added? (Air is about 78% nitrogen, 21%
oxygen, and 1% miscellaneous; its average molar mass is 28.8 g/mol = 28.8 ×10−3
kg/mol.)
V1 = 11.0 L, T1 = 21o C = 294 K, p1 = 1 atm = 101325 Pa, T2 = 42 oC = 315 K,
p2 = 2.10 × 107 Pa
Use: pV = nRT
16. Four molecules of gas have speeds 2, 4, 6, 8, km/s. respectively Calculate
(a) Average speed

(b) Root Mean square speed?

17. A tank contains 2.0 mol of Helium gas at 20oC. Assume that the Helium behaves like an
ideal gas. Calculate the total kinetic energy of the gas molecules

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