West Visayas State University

PHYSICAL SCIENCE DEPT

Problem Set Physics 222A Topic: Waves 1. (a) In a liquid with density 1300 kg/m 3 , longitudinal waves with frequency 400 Hz are found to have wavelength 8.00 m. Calculate the bulk modulus of the liquid (b) A metal bar with a length of 1.50 m has density 6400 kg/m 3 . Longitudinal sound waves take 3.90 X 10-4 s to travel from one end of the bar to the other. What is Young's modulus for this metal? (Source: University Physics 12th Ed. Problem # 16.5) 2. An 80.0-m-long brass rod is struck at one end. A person at the other end hears two sounds as a result of two longitudinal waves, one traveling in the metal rod and the other traveling in the air. What is the time interval between the two sounds? The speed of sound in air is 344 m/s; relevant information about brass can be found in Table 11.1 and Table 14.1. (Source: University Physics 12th Ed. Problem # 16.11) 3. What must be the stress (F/A) in a stretched wire of a material whose Young's modulus is Y for the speed of longitudinal waves to equal 30 times the speed of transverse waves? (Source: University Physics 12th Ed. Problem # 16.13) 4. Example 16.1 (Section 16.1) showed that for sound waves in air with frequency 1000 Hz, a displacement amplitude of 1.2 X 10-8 m produces a pressure amplitude of 3.0 X 10- 2 Pa. Water at 200C has a bulk modulus of 2.2 X 1011 Pa, and the speed of sound in water at this temperature is 1480 m/s. For 1000-Hz sound waves in 20C water, what displacement amplitude is produced if the pressure amplitude is 3.0 X 10- 2 Pa? Explain why your answer is much less than 1.2 X 10- 8 Pa. (Source: University Physics 12th Ed. Problem # 16.2) 5. The intensity due to a number of independent sound sources is the sum of the individual intensities. (a) When four quadruplets cry simultaneously, how many decibels greater is the sound intensity level than when a single one cries? (b) To increase the sound intensity level again by the same number of decibels as in part (a), how many more crying babies are required? (Source: University Physics 12th Ed. Problem # 16.20) 6. A baby's mouth is 30 cm from her father's ear and 1.50 m from her mother's ear. What is the difference between the sound intensity levels heard by the father and by the mother? (Source: University Physics 12th Ed. Problem # 16.21) 7. The Sacramento City Council recently adopted a law to reduce the allowed sound intensity level of the much despised leaf blowers from their current level of about 95 dB to 70 dB. With the new law, what is the ratio of the new allowed intensity to the previously allowed intensity? (Source: University Physics 12th Ed. Problem # 16.22) 8. (a) By what factor must the sound intensity be increased to raise the sound intensity level by 13.0 dB? (b) Explain why you don't need to know the original sound intensity. (Source: University Physics 12th Ed. Problem # 16.23) 9. A vacuum cleaner produces sound with a measured sound level of 70.0 dB. (a) What is the intensity of this sound in W/m2? (b) What is the pressure amplitude of the sound? (Source: Physics for Scientist and Engineers 6th Ed. Problem # 17.20) 10. The intensity of a sound wave at a xed distance from a speaker vibrating at 1.00 kHz is 0.600 W/m2. (a) Determine the intensity if the frequency is increased to 2.50 kHz while a constant displacement amplitude is maintained. (b) Calculate the intensity if the frequency is reduced to 0.500 kHz and the displacement amplitude is doubled. (Source: Physics for Scientist and Engineers 6th Ed. Problem # 17.21) 11. The sound from a trumpet radiates uniformly in all directions in 200c air. At a distance of 5.00 m from the trumpet the sound intensity level is 52.0 dB. The frequency is 587 Hz. (a) What is the pressure amplitude at this distance? (b) What is the displacement amplitude? (Source: University Physics 12th Ed. Problem # 16.56) 12. A rework charge is detonated many meters above the ground. At a distance of 400 m from the explosion, the acoustic pressure reaches a maximum of 10.0 N/m2. Assume that the speed of sound is constant at 343 m/s throughout the atmosphere over the region considered, that the ground absorbs all the sound falling on it, and that the air absorbs sound energy as described by the rate 7.00 dB/km. What is the sound level (in dB) at 4.00 km from the explosion? (Source: Physics for Scientist and Engineers 6th Ed. Problem # 17.29)