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प्रश्न
(i) Define resonant vibrations.
(ii) Which characteristic of sound, makes it possible to recognize a person by his voice without seeing him?
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उत्तर
(i) When the natural frequency of vibration becomes equal to the frequency with which the object is vibrating, the object will have maximum amplitude. This is called resonant vibration.
(ii) Timber or quality of sound.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Resonance is a special case of ______ vibrations, when frequency of the driving force is ______ natural frequency of the body.
Differentiate between the forced and resonant vibrations.
Why is a loud sound heard at resonance?
In following figure shows two tuning forks A and B of the same frequency mounted on two separate sound boxes with their open ends facing each other. The fork A is set into vibration.
- Describe your observation.
- State the principle illustrated by this experiment.

Why are the stringed instruments like guitar provided with a hollow sound box?
Two pendulums C and D are suspended from a wire as shown in the figure give below. Pendulum C is made to oscullate by displaying it from its mean position. It is seen that D also starts oscillating.

(i) Name the type of oscillation, C will execute.
(ii) Name the type of oscillation, D will execute.
(iii) If the length of D is made equal to C then what difference will you notice in the oscillations of D ?
(iv) What is the name of the phenomenon when the length of D is made equal to C ?
The diagram below shows three different modes of vibration P, Q and R of the same string of a given length.
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| P | Q | R |
- Which vibration will produce a louder sound and why?
- Which vibration will produce sound of maximum shrillness (or pitch) and why?
- What is the ratio of wavelength of vibrations P and R?
What do you mean by resonance? When does resonance occur?
What do you understand by forced vibrations?



