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Physics 71 TWHFW 2nd semester 2013-14: Recitation Quiz 16

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following questions clearly and legibly. Show your complete solutions and box you final answer. Any act of
dishonesty such as cheating shall be subjected to disciplinary actions.

1-2. A thin 75.0-cm wire has a mass of 16.5g. One end is tied to a nail and the other end is attached to a screw that can
be adjusted to vary the tension in the wire.
1. To what tension (in newtons) must you adjust the screw so that a transverse wave of wavelength 3.33cm
makes 875 vibrations per second?

v f (875Hz)(3.33x10 2 m) 29.1m / s
m 0.0165 kg

0.0220 kg / m Therefore the tension is:

Since
L
0.750 m
F v 2 (0.0220kg / m)(29.1m / s) 18.6N
2. How fast would this wave travel?

v f (875Hz)(3.33x10 2 m) 29.1m / s
3-4. A piano with mass 3.00g and length 80.0cm is stretched with a tension of 25.0N. A wave with frequency 120.0Hz
and amplitude 1.6mm travels along the wire.
3. Calculate the average power carried by the wave.
Note that:

Pac

m
and 2f ; everything is given in the problem to get the average power:
L

1
F 2 A 2 0.223W
2

4. What happens to the average power if the wave amplitude is halved?

Pave is proportional to A2 so halving the amplitude quarters the average power to 0.056W.

5-6. Two trains whistles, A and B, each have a frequency of 392Hz. A is stationary and B is moving toward
the right (away from A) at a speed of 35.0m/s. A listener is between the two whisles and is moving toward
the right with the speed 15.0m/s. No wind is blowing.

5. What is the frequency from A heard by the listener?

The positive direction is from listener to source fs = 392Hz. vS = 0; vL = -15.0m/s.
v vL
344m / s 15.0m / s
f S
f L
(392 Hz) 375 Hz
344m / s

v vS
The distance between whistle A and the listener is increasing, and for whisle A; fL<fS.
6. What is the frequency from B heard by the listener?
vS = +35.0m/s; vL = +15.0m/s.
v vL
344m / s 15.0m / s
f S
f L
(392 Hz) 371Hz
344m / s 35.0m / s
v vS
The distance between whistle B and the listener is also increasing, and for whistle B; fL<fS.

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7-9. One string of a certain musical instrument is 75.0cm long and has a mass of 8.75g. It is being played in
a room where the speed of sound is 344m/s.
7. What is the frequency and speed of the waves on the string so that when vibrating in its second
overtone, it produces sound wavelenght 3.35cm?
2L
The standing waves have wavelengths n
;
n
2L
0.500 m
for fundamental n = 1; for second overtone n=3; therefore
3
v f
v
The frequency is f 1.03 x10 4 Hz

So that the speed of the wave is: v f 5.15x10 3 m / s

8. To what tension must you adjust the string?
From v

F/ ;

m 8.75 x10 3 kg

1.17 x10 2 kg / m
L
0.750m
we can calculate the tension as: F v 2 3.10 x10 5 N
9. What frequency sound does this string produce in its fundamental mode of vibration?
with

For standing waves the frequencies: f n nf1 . So for second overtone (n=3): f1

f1
3.43x10 3 Hz
3

10-11. Light is a wave, but not mechanical wave. The quantities that oscillate are electric and magnetic fields. Light
visible to humans has wavelengths between 400nm (violet) and 700nm (red), and all travels through vacuum at speed
c = 3.00x108m/s.
10. What are the (upper and lower) limits of the frequency of visible light?

v f

With 400 nm

3.00 x108 m / s
7.50 x1014 Hz
9

400 x10 m
With 700 nm
c 3.00 x108 m / s
f
4.29 x1014 Hz

700 x10 9 m
f

11. What are the (upper and lower) limits of the period of visible light? Could you time a single light vibration
using a stopwatch?

1
f
With 400 nm
1
T 1.33x10 15 s
f
With 700 nm
1
T 2.33x10 15 s T is very small, hence cannot be measured using the stopwatch.
f
T

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