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PHY 205 Midterm: exam3

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29 Nov 2016
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PHY 205
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The frequency of the third harmonic of this fundamental is: 50 hz b) 75 hz c) 0. 15 khz d) 0. 45 khz e) 1. 1 khz, the air columns in two identical pipes vibrate at frequencies of 150 hz. The percentage of change needed in the length of one of the pipes to produce 3 beats per second is: 1% b) 2% c) 3% d) 4% e) 5, the fundamental frequency of a vibrating string is f1. If the tension in the string is doubled, the fundamental frequency becomes: f1/2 b) E) 2f1: a light wave traveling at speed v1 in medium 1 passes into medium 2 where its speed is v2. The angle in the water is: 42 b) 36 c) 63 d) 49 e) 27 , the speed of yellow sodium light in a certain liquid is 1. 92 108 m/s.

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    (b} Find the wave speed m/s 
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6. Ocean waves are traveling te the east at 4. 7 m/s with a distance of 19 m between crests. (a) With what frequency do the waves hit the front of a boat when the boat Is at anchor?
(          ) HZ 

(b) With what frequency do the waves hit the front of a boat when the boat Is moving westward at 1.5 m/s? 
 (          ) HZ

7. A circus performer stretches s tightrope between two towers. He strikes ane end of the rope and sends a wave atong it toward the other tower He notes that It takes the

wave 0. 840 s to reach the opposite tower, 20.0 m away If s 1.00-m length of the rope has a mass of 0.260 kg, find the tension In the tightrope .
(            ) N ?.

8.  Transverse waves with a speed of 52. 0 m/s are to be produced on a stretched string A    5 .20-m length of string with a total mass of 0.0600 kg Is used. 

{a) What is the required tension in the string? 
(           )N
(b} Calculate the wave speed in the string if the tension Is 8. 00 N. 
    (             )m/s . ?

9.A wave of amplitude 0 .53 m interferes with a second wave of amplitude 0 .19 m traveling in the same direction. 

(a) What Is the largest resultant amplitude that can occur, and under what conditions will this maximum arise? 

(           ) m 

1.The two waves interfere destructively, 

2.The two waves interfere constructively. 

(b) What is the smallest resultant amplitude that cah occur, and under what conditions will this minimum arise? 
(             ) m

1.The two waves interfere destructively 

2.The two waves interfere constructively 


10. A certain tuning fork vibrates at a frequency of 161 Hz while each tip of Its two prongs has an amplitude of 0. 724 mm .

(a) What ts the per od of this motion?
(          )ms .

(b) Find the wavelength of the sound produced by the vibrating fork taking the speed of sound in alr to be 343 m/s.
  (          ) m .