PRELIM/MIDTERM EXAMINATION

15. Sound and light waves both

A. have similar wavelength
B. obey the laws of reflection *
C. travel as longitudinal waves
D. travel through vacuum

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE:
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When a wave travels through a medium __

A. particles are transferred from one place to another
B. energy is transferred in a periodic manner
C. energy is transferred at a constant speed *
D. none of the above statements is applicable
When sound travels through air, the air particles ____
A. vibrate along the direction of wave propagation *
B. vibrate but not in any fixed direction
C. vibrate perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation
D. do not vibrate
The relation between wave velocity 'v', frequency 'f ', and
wavelength 'l' is ____

16. An ultrasonic wave is sent from a ship towards the bottom of the
sea. It is found that the time interval between the sending and
receiving of the wave is 1.6 s. What is the depth of the sea, if the
velocity of sound in the seawater is 1400 m/s?
A. 1120 m *
B. 560 m
C. 1400 m
D. 112 m
17. If a vibrator strikes the water 10 times in one second, then the
frequency of wave is ____
A. 10 Hz *
B. 0.5 Hz
C. 5 Hz
D. 0.1 Hz

A.
C.
B.
*
D. Cannot be determined
The frequency of a wave travelling at a speed of 500 ms-1 is 25 Hz.
Its time period will be ____
18. Unit of wavelength is ______
A. 20 s
C. 25 s *
A. newton
B. 0.05 s
D. 0.04 s
B. erg
The amplitude of a wave is ___
C. dyne
A. the distance the wave moves in one second
D. angstrom *
B. the distance the wave moves in one time period of the wave
C. the maximum distance moved by the medium particles on
19. SI Unit of time period is ____
either side of the mean position *
A. Second *
D. the distance equal to one wave length
B. hour
Sound waves do not travel through
C. minute
A. Solids
C. gases
D. nanosecond
B. Liquids
D. vacuum *
The physical quantity, which oscillates in most waves, is
20. ___ is the sound energy per unit area at right angles of the
A. Mass
C. amplitude *
propagation direction, per unit time.
B. Energy
D. wavelength
A. Loudness
Sound waves are
B. Coherence
A. Longitudinal *
C. Sound stress
B. transverse
D. Sound intensity *
C. partly longitudinal and partly transverse
D. sometimes longitudinal and sometimes transverse
The frequency which is not audible to the human ear is
II. PROBLEM SOLVING:
A. 50 Hz
B. 500 Hz
1. Calculate the speed of sound in aluminum.
C. 5000 Hz
2. Determine the speed of sound in air at STP.
D. 50000 Hz *
3. Calculate the wavelength of sound being propagated in air at 40C,
The speed of sound in medium depends upon
at 40 kHz.
A. amplitude
4. Given a loudspeaker with an effective diameter of 30cm radiates
B. frequency
40mW. What is the sound intensity level at the loudspeaker?
C. wavelength
5. The picture carrier for UHF TV channel 34 is 591.25 MHz, find:
D. properties of the medium *
A. the frequency range (min and max freq)
Which of the following will remain unchanged when a sound wave
B. the sound carrier
travels in air or in water?
C. the frequency range of channel 38
A. Amplitude
D. the picture and sound carrier of channel 38.
B. Wavelength
C. Frequency *
III. Enumeration and Description:
D. Speed
A sound source sends waves of 400 Hz. It produces waves of
wavelength 2.5 m. The velocity of sound waves is
1. Give at least 10 branches (or main sub-discipline of acoustics) with
A. 100 m/s
description.
B. 1000 m/s *
2. The 3 classes of speech and describe each class.
C. 10000 m/s
D. 3000 km/s
IV. Identification:
The time period of a vibrating body is 0.05 s. The frequency of
waves it emits is
1. It is the quality of sound that is simplest to relate to a measurable
A. 5 Hz
quantity which is the time interval between its beginning and end
B. 20 Hz *
points.
C. 200 Hz
2. It is defined as the integral multiples of the fundamental frequency.
D. 2 Hz
3. Highness or lowness of a musical tone as determined by the
rapidity of the vibrations producing it.
A source of frequency of 500 Hz emits waves of wavelength 0.4 m,
4. Texture or color of a sound.
how long does the waves take to travel 600 m?
5. It is the study of how sound is generated and measured by
A. 3 s *
loudspeakers, microphones, sonar projectors, hydrophones,
B. 6 s
ultrasonic transducres, sensors.
C. 9 s
D.

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