Longitudinal and transverse waves - class-XI
Description: longitudinal and transverse waves | |
Number of Questions: 41 | |
Created by: Avani Handa | |
Tags: physics wave motion oscillation and waves oscillations and waves properties of waves waves sound |
Crest or troughs in a travelling wave are
The distance between two consecutive crests or troughs are equal in a wave
Ocean waves of time period $0.01$ second have a speed $15 m/s$. What is the adjacent crest and the trough is:
The velocity of light in glass whose refractive index w.r.t air is $1.5$ is $2 \times 10^8 \,m/s$. In a certain liquid, the velocity of light is found to be $2.5 \times 10^8 \,m/s$. The refractive index of the liquid w.r.t air is
If the distance between two successive troughs in a transverse wave is 8 cm, then the amplitude of that wave is 5 cm.
Water waves are:
A transverse wave travelling on a taut string is represented by $y = 0.01 \sin 2 \pi ( 10 t - x )$ where y and x are in metre and t is in second. Then
What is the phase difference between two successive crests in the wave?
The wave produced by a motor boat sailing in water are
A crest is the point of maximum displacement of a particle in a wave. State whether true or false.
Transverse mechanical wave can travel in
Which of the following can travel through vacuum?
Which of the following does not identify a necessary property of wave motion?
During propagation of a plane progressive mechanical wave :
Distance between crest and through is
A point on the wave, wherein the displacement of the wave is ___________ is known as a crest
A string tied to a wall is given a flip at the other end with an initial velocity u, which generates a curve. After sometime, this curve is seen to reach the wall with the same speed. The transfer of the kinetic energy takes place due to
A heat energy of 540 kJ ,given to 1 litre of water at 100C makes the water to boil. In this process, heat energy is transferred from the source to water by means of
A metal hammer hits a spherical bell, when the circuit in a calling bell is switched ON, the propogation of sound takes place due to
Waves that are combination of longitudinal and transverse nature are
Particles in the combination of longitudinal and transverse waves moves in
Waves created in Tsunami are
Two particles in a medium are vibrating with a path difference of $10$ m and corresponding time difference is $0.1$s. The speed of wave in the medium is?
A transverse wave travels along z-axis. The particles of the medium moves
The particle displacement of a travelling longitudinal wave is represented by S=S (x,t). The midpoints of a compression zone and an adjacent rarefaction zone are represented by the letter 'C' and 'R' Which of the following is true?
The equation of a transverse wave travelling in a rope is given by $y = 5\sin (4t - 0.02x)$, where $y$ and $x$ are in cm and time $t$ is in second.
Then the maximum transverse speed of wave in the rope is
Two small boats are $10m$ apart on a lake. Each pops up and down with a period of $4.0 seconds$ due to wave motion on the surface of water. When one boat is at its highest point, the other boat is at its lowest point. Both boats are always within a single cycle of the waves. The speed of the waves is:
Disturbance $y(x, t)$ of a wave propagating in the position x-direction is given by $y = \dfrac {1}{1 + x^{2}}$ at time $t = 0$ and by $y = \dfrac {1}{[1 + (x - 1^{2})]}$ at $t = 2\ s$, where $x$ and $y$ are in meters. The shape of the wave disturbance does not change during the propagation. The velocity of wave in m/s is
In gases which wave cannot propagate
A transverse wave consists of:
For propagation of a mechanical wave, the medium must possess
Waves can undergo
Water waves are an example of waves that involve
Which of the following waves do not require any kind of medium to propagate ?
State whether true or false :
With the change of medium, the frequency doesn't change, however both the velocity and wavelength change
With propagation of longitudinal waves through a medium, the quantity transmitted is :
When a wave is reflected from a ___________ medium, there is a phase change of $\pi$.
State true or false :
Mechanical Waves are waves which propagate through a material medium.
Which of the following statements are true for wave motion ?
A man sets his watch by the noon whistle of a factory at a distance of $1.5 km.$ Then the number of seconds his watch slower than the clock of the factory (velocity of sound $= 332 m/s$) is
When a wave is reflected from a ___________ medium, there is no change of phase.