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Practical applications of beats - class-XI

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What happens when two sound waves of frequencies differing by more than 10 Hz reach our ear simultaneously?

  1. beats are not produced

  2. the waves destroy each other's effect

  3. interference of sound does not take place.

  4. beats are produced but cannot be heard


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 if the beat formation rate is too fast (more than 10 Hz) human ear could not distinguish the time interval of the two consicutive beats. 

You are listening to an $A$ note played on a violin string. Let the subscript $s$ refer to the violin string and $a$ refer to the air. Then:

  1. $f _{s}=f _{a}$ but $\lambda _{s}\neq\lambda _{a}$

  2. $f _{s}=f _{a}$ and $\lambda _{s}=\lambda _{a}$

  3. $\lambda _{s}=\lambda _{a}$ but $f _{s}\neq f _{a}$

  4. $\lambda _{s}\neq\lambda _{a}$ and $f _{s}\neq f _{a}$


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Frequencies of air and string is same because the source is same. Air and the string are two different medium so there velocities will also different. Hence the wavelength has to be different.

The fundamental frequency of a sitar wire is 440 vibrations per seond. If the sitar player reduces the length of the wire by $1/5^{th}$, then the change in the frequency of sitater wire will be

  1. 2200 vibrations/sec

  2. 1760 vibrations/sec

  3. 440 vibrations/sec

  4. 110 vibrations/sec


Correct Option: A

When a long hollow cylindrical iron pipe is struck at one end, then at the other end of the pipe :

  1. one sound is only heard

  2. two sounds are heard at different intervals

  3. three sounds are heard at different intervals

  4. no sound is heard


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

There will be two sounds, one will through the air , and other will come through the material, Sound speed is faster in steel, therefore it will be heard earlier than the sound from air . Option "B" is correct.

The following is best Lubricant?

  1. Solids

  2. Liquid

  3. Gas

  4. Both B and c


Correct Option: B

A source of sound of frequency 256 Hz is moving towards a wall with a velocity of 5 m/s. The number of beats per second heard by a stationary observer between the source and the wall is (Velocity of sound = 330 m/s) 

  1. 8

  2. 3

  3. 5

  4. 2


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
 If the sound reaches the observer after being reflected from a stationary surface and the medium is also stationary$,$ 
the image of the source in the reflecting surface will become the source of the reflected sound$.$
$v = v [c – v-o/c – v _s]$
$v _o,$ $v _s$ are $+ve$ if they are directed from source to the observer and $– ve$ if they directed from observer to source$.$
$v = 256 [330 – (- 5)/330 – 5] = 264 Hz$
$∴$ Beat frequency $= 264 – 256 = 8$
Hence,
option $(A)$ is correct answer.

Megaphones or loudhailers, horns, musical instruments such as trumpets and shehanais, are all designed to---------

  1. send sound in a particular direction without spreading it in all directions

  2. send sound in a particular direction spreading it in all directions

  3. collect sound from all directions spreading it in all directions

  4. all


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Megaphones or loudhailers, horns, musical instruments such as trumpets and  shehanais, are all designed to send sound in a particular direction without spreading it in all direction. In these instruments, a tube followed by a conical opening reflects sound successively to guide most of the sound waves from the source in the forward direction towards the audience.

Two waves $\mathrm{y} _{1}=\mathrm{A}\cos(0.5\pi \mathrm{x}-100\pi \mathrm{t})$
and $\mathrm{y} _{2}=\mathrm{A}\cos(0.46\pi \mathrm{x}-92\pi \mathrm{t})$ are travelling in a pipe placed along $\mathrm{x}$-axis. Find the number of times intensity is maximum in time interval of 1 sec.

  1. 4

  2. 6

  3. 8

  4. 10


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Beat frequency$=|f _1-f _2|=(50-46)=4s^{-1}$

One beat frequency consists of a maximum and a minimum
So the number of maxima are ${f}=4$

The lowest wavelength of audible sound is (Velocity of sound in air is $340ms^{-1}$)

  1. $1.7cm$

  2. $17m$

  3. $20cm$

  4. $20000m$


Correct Option: B

The maximum time period for a sound wave that the audible to normal human being is

  1. $0.5s$

  2. $5s$

  3. $0.05s$

  4. $0.005s$


Correct Option: C

The musical interval between tube two tine of frequency $400\ Hz$ and $200\ Hz$ is:

  1. $2$

  2. $200$

  3. $1$

  4. $none\ of\ these$


Correct Option: A

A key of mechanical piano is first struck gently and then struck again but much harder this time. In the second case :

  1. sound will be louder but pitch will not be different

  2. sound will be louder and the pitch will also be higher

  3. sound will be louder but pitch will be lower

  4. both loudness and pitch will remain unaffected


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Loudness or softness of a sound is determined basically by its amplitude. The amplitude of the sound wave depends upon the force with which an object is made to vibrate. If we strike a table lightly, we hear a soft sound because we produce a sound wave of less energy (amplitude). Pitch depends upon frequency received by the human ear.

The characteristics of sound with the help of which we can distinguish between a SHRILL note and a GRAVE note is

  1. Loudness

  2. Pitch

  3. Quality

  4. Intensity


Correct Option: B

How Jal Tarang produces sound?

  1. In Jal-tarang musical instrument the cup containing minimum water produces the sound of lowest frequency.

  2. In Jal-tarang musical instrument the cup containing minimum water produces the sound of lowest pitch.

  3. In Jal-tarang musical instrument the cup containing minimum water produces the sound of lowest frequency. As the amount of water in the cup goes on increasing, the frequency of the sound produced also goes on increasing.

  4. all


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

n Jal-tarang musical instrument the cup containing minimum water produces the sound of lowest frequency or lowest pitch. As the amount of water in the cup goes on increasing, the frequency (or the pitch) of the sound
produced also goes on increasing.

Beats are heard at the rate of $12$ every $5$ seconds when two open organ pipes of lengths $84\ cm$ and $85\ cm$ are sounded together in their fundamental modes. Find the velocity of sound in air. (An open organ pipe has an antinode at each end.

  1. $342.7\ m/s$.

  2. $300.7\ m/s$.

  3. $350.7\ m/s$.

  4. $400.7\ m/s$.


Correct Option: A

An under water swimmer sends a sound signal to the surface. It is produces 5 betas/sec when compared with fundamental tone of a pipe of $20$ cm length closed at one end what is wavelength of sound in water. (take V water=$1500 m/sec$ Vair=$360 m/sec$)

  1. $3.3 m$ or $3.37 m$

  2. $4.4 m$ or $4.47 m $

  3. $2.5 m$ or $2.7 m$

  4. $1 m$ or $1.7 m$


Correct Option: A

identify the part which vibrates to produce sound in the following instruments.

  1. tabla or dholak

  2. flute

  3. tuning fork

  4. sitar


Correct Option: C
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