Saturday, November 8, 2008

sound

1.) Longitudinal waves cannot be travel through
A)solids
B)liquids
C)gases
D)vaccum
2.) The echo and original sound differ in
A)Frequency
B)Velocity
C)Intensity
D)wavelength
3.) The type of the waves which cannot be transmitted through fluids
A)longitudinal waves
B)transverse waves
C)electromagnetic waves
D)Progressive waves
4.) Sound travels in rocks in the form of
A)non-elastic waves
B)only transverse elastic waves
C)only longitudinal elastic waves
D)both longitudinal and transverse elastic waves
5.) The waves which require material medium for their transmission are:
A)Body waves
B)Mechanical waves
C)Sound waves
D)All the above
6.) The phase differrence between two particles equidistant and lining on either side of a node is
A)o‘>0o
B) o‘>45o
C)o‘>90o
D) o‘>180o
7.) The property of a progressive wave that does not depend up on other characteristics
A)Amplitude
B)Frequency
C)Wave velocity
D)wavelength
8.) Hydrophone is based on
A)Beats
B)Echo
C)Droppler effect
D)Super position of sound waves
9.) Doppler effect is applicable to
A)Sound waves
B)Light waves
C)Radio waves
D)All the above
10.) An open window acts as
A)Perfect reflector
B)perfect absorber
C)Both 1&2
D)neither 1 nor 2
11.) Multiple reflections are observed in
A)Stethoscope
B)Reverberations
C)Diffraction
D)Both 1&2
12.) What determines the frequency of natural oscillations of system
A)inertia
B)elasticity
C)mode of vibrations
D)All the above.
13.) Resonance is a special case of
A)free vibrations
B)forced vibrations.
C)Damped vibrations
D)Maintained vibrations
14.) The longitudinal wave velocity in solids in bulk
A)does not depend on wavelength and frequency
B)depends on bulk modulus ‘k’ and rigidity modulus ‘n’.
C)both
D)none
15.) Sound waves can diffract easily because
A)The wave length is very very small
B)The wave length is more
C)It can reflect
D)It can refract
16.) The echo and original sound have same
A)Frequency
B)Amplitude
C)Intensity
D)All the above
17.) The longitudinal waves in air differ from the electromagnetic waves in that they cannot be
A)Reflected
B)Refracted
C)diffracted
D)polarised
18.) The persistance of sound in a hall is called
A)resonance
B)acoustics
C)reverberations
D)articulation
19.) Incase of damped oscillation amplitude
A)decreases linearly
B)increases linearly
C)decreases exponentially
D)increases exponentially
20.) If a string is vibrating in nth harmonic the total number of nodes produced is
A)n-1
B)n+1
C)n+2
D)n-2
21.) The waves which do not require any material medium for the propagation are:
A)Matter waves
B)Debroglie waves
C)Electromagnetic waves
D)Surface waves
22.) If a stretched string is plucked at the centre
A)even harmonics are present
B)odd harmonics are absent
C)even harmonics are absent
D)All harmonics are present
23.) When a tuning fork is heated its frequency
A)increases
B)decreases
C)remains same
D)become erratic
24.) At resonance
A)The amplitude is maximum,theoretically infinite
B)The amplitude is minimum
C)Amplitude is zero
D)Amplitude is either zero or minimum
25.) If a string be rubbed along its length,the vibrations are
A)transverse
B)longitudinal
C)both 1 and 2
D)neither 1 nor 2

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