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Waves, Light, and Modern Physics Fall 2024

Assignment/Practice Problems 3
Question 1:
Two in-phase speakers 1.5 m apart on a line are emitting 1800 Hz sound waves into a room
where the speed of sound is 340 m/s. Is the point 4.0 m in front of one of the speakers, perpendicular
to the line joining the speakers,
a) A point of maximum constructive interference
b) Perfect destructive interference
c) Something in between?

Question 2:
Two loudspeakers emit sound waves along the x-axis. A listener in front of both speakers hears a
maximum sound intensity when speaker 2 is at the origin and speaker 1 is at x = 0.510 m. If speaker 1
is slowly moved forward, the sound intensity decreases and then increases, reaching another
maximum when speaker 1 is at x = 0.910 m.
1. What is the frequency of the sound? Assume vsound =340 m/s.
2. What is the phase difference between the speakers?

Question 3:

You are standing 2.5 m directly in front of one of the two loudspeakers shown in the figure above.
They are 3.0 m apart and both are playing a 686 Hz tone in phase. As you begin to walk directly away
from the speaker, at what distances from the speaker do you hear a minimum sound intensity?
Assume the speed of sound is 343 m/s.

Question 4:
The figure shows a standing wave oscillating on a string at frequency f0.

a) What mode is it in?


b) How many antinodes will there be if the frequency is increased to 6 f0?
Question 5:
The figure shows the displacement of a standing sound wave in a 32-cm-long horizontal tube of air
open at both ends.

a) What mode is this?


b) Are the air molecules moving horizontally or vertically?
c) At what distances from the left end of the tube do the molecules oscillate with maximum
amplitude?

Question 6:

The figure shows a snapshot graph of two waves moving towards each other at t = 0 s. Draw the
snapshot graph at t = 4 s.

Question 7:
The lowest note on a grand piano has a frequency of 27.5 Hz. The entire string is 2.00 m long and has
a mass of 430 g. The vibrating section of the string is 1.71 m long. What tension is needed to tune this
string properly?

Question 8:
A string vibrates at its third-harmonic frequency. The amplitude at a point 33 cm from one end is half
the maximum amplitude (assume this is the first location with this amplitude). How long is the string?

Question 9:
A 1.0-m-tall vertical tube is filled with 20˚C water. A tuning fork vibrating at 571 Hz is held just over the
top of the tube as the water is slowly drained from the bottom. At what water heights, measured from
the bottom of the tube, will there be a standing wave in the tube above the water?

Question 10:
Two microwave signals of nearly equal wavelengths can generate a beat frequency if both are directed
onto the same microwave detector. In an experiment, the beat frequency is 100 MHz. One microwave
generator is set to emit microwaves with a wavelength of 1.250 cm. If the second generator emits the
longer wavelength, what is that wavelength?
Question 11:
A flute player hears four beats per second when she compares her note to a 523 Hz tuning fork (the
note C). She can match the frequency of the tuning fork by pulling out the “tuning joint” to lengthen
her flute slightly. What was her initial frequency?

ANSWERS

1. Something in between
2. a) 850 hz, b) 1.73 rad
3. 2.975 m, 5.625 m, 17.875 m
4. a) 4, b) 24
5. a) 2, b) horizontally, c) 16 cm and 32 cm
6.

7. 1900 N
8. 5.94 m
9. 85 cm, 55 cm, 25 cm
10. 1.255 cm
11. 527 Hz

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