PUC Science Class 11 - Karnataka Board PUC Question Bank Solutions

You are walking along a seashore and a mild wind is blowing. Is the motion of air a wave motion?

A mechanical wave propagates in a medium along the X-axis. The particles of the medium
(a) must move on the X-axis
(b) must move on the Y-axis
(c) may move on the X-axis
(d) may move on the Y-axis.

The ear-ring of a lady shown in figure has a 3 cm long light suspension wire. (a) Find the time period of small oscillations if the lady is standing on the ground. (b) The lady now sits in a merry-go-round moving at 4 m/s¹ in a circle of radius 2 m. Find the time period of small oscillations of the ear-ring.

A transverse wave travels along the Z-axis. The particles of the medium must move

Longitudinal waves cannot

A wave going in a solid
(a) must be longitudinal
(b) may be longitudinal
(c) must be transverse
(d) may be transverse.

A wave moving in a gas

Find the time period of small oscillations of the following systems. (a) A metre stick suspended through the 20 cm mark. (b) A ring of mass m and radius r suspended through a point on its periphery. (c) A uniform square plate of edge a suspended through a corner. (d) A uniform disc of mass m and radius r suspended through a point r/2 away from the centre.

A uniform disc of radius r is to be suspended through a small hole made in the disc. Find the minimum possible time period of the disc for small oscillations. What should be the distance of the hole from the centre for it to have minimum time period?

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Consider the situation of the previous problem. Let the water push the left wall by a force F₁ and the right wall by a force F₂. 

A particle on a stretched string supporting a travelling wave, takes 5⋅0 ms to move from its mean position to the extreme position. The distance between two consecutive particles, which are at their mean positions, is 2⋅0 cm. Find the frequency, the wavelength and the wave speed.

Figure shows a plot of the transverse displacements of the particles of a string at t = 0 through which a travelling wave is passing in the positive x-direction. The wave speed is 20 cm s⁻¹. Find (a) the amplitude, (b) the wavelength, (c) the wave number and (d) the frequency of the wave.

A steel wire of length 64 cm weighs 5 g. If it is stretched by a force of 8 N, what would be the speed of a transverse wave passing on it?

A vertical rod is hit at one end. What kind of wave propagates in the rod if (a) the hit is made vertically (b) the hit is made horizontally?

Two wires of different densities but same area of cross section are soldered together at one end and are stretched to a tension T. The velocity of a transverse wave in the first wire is double of that in the second wire. Find the ratio of the density of the first wire to that of the second wire.

Consider the following statements about sound passing through a gas.
(A) The pressure of the gas at a point oscillates in time.
(B) The position of a small layer of the gas oscillates in time.

A transverse wave described by \[y = \left( 0 \cdot 02  m \right)  \sin  \left( 1 \cdot 0  m^{- 1} \right)  x + \left( 30  s^{- 1} \right)t\] propagates on a stretched string having a linear mass density of \[1 \cdot 2 \times  {10}^{- 4}   kg   m^{- 1}\] the tension in the string.

Two blocks each having a mass of 3⋅2 kg are connected by a wire CD and the system is suspended from the ceiling by another wire AB (See following figure). The linear mass density of the wire AB is 10 g m⁻¹ and that of CD is 8 g m⁻¹. Find the speed of a transverse wave pulse produced in AB and CD.

An organ pipe, open at both ends, contains