Test for Weeks 1 and 2

28 questions
1.
On a dry winter day when you shuffle your feet while walking
across a carpet an electrical charge builds up on your body. After
crossing a room, as you reach out for a metal doorknob you may
be surprised by a large spark! To create a spark the electric field
must be greater than
3x
10
6
Volts/meter. Let’s say that the spark is about 1 cm long. How much
static charge was built up on your body? (Assume that all of the
charge rushes to your finger-tip as you reach out for the
doorknob.)

6.24 x
10
9
electrons

2.1 x
10
7
electrons

3.33 x
10
8
electrons

2.1 x
10
1

1
electrons
2.
What is the equivalent resistance of three 1Ω resistors in parallel?
1 Ohm

3 Ohms

1/3 Ohm

2/3 Ohm
3.
Find the equivalent resistance of this network of resistors. (All
resistor values are in Ohms)

4 Ohms

1 Ohm

1/2 Ohm

2 Ohms
4.
Find the voltage at node “a” in the circuit.

1 Volt
1/2 Volt

4 Volts

2 Volts
5.
Find the voltage at node “b” in the circuit.

8 Volts

4 Volts

12 Volts

6 Volts
6.
What is the total current (i) flowing from the battery?

4 Amps

3 Amps

12 Amps

3/4 Amp
7.
What is the current
i
4
through the 4 Ohm resistor??

1 Amp

3 Amps

8 Amps

2 Amps
8.
What is the current
i
1

2
through the 12 Ohm resistor?

3 Amps

8 Amps

2 Amps

1 Amp
9.
What is the current i ?
0.75 Amps

8.33 Amps

3.75 Amps

6 Amps
10.
What is the current i

1
?

0.067 Amp

-0.025 Amp
-0.067 Amp

0.025 Amp
11.
A new D-cell battery is 1.5 Volts and has a capacity of about 10
Amp-hours, i.e., it can provide 1 Amp for 10 hours. How much
energy does the battery contain?

150,000 Joules

90,000 Joules

36,000 Joules

54,000 Joules
12.
A voltage source has an open circuit voltage of 15 Volts and it can
provide a short circuit current of 30 Amps. What is the maximum
power available from this voltage source?

450 Watts

225 Watts

900 Watts

112.5 Watts
13.
You are attempting to build an inverting amplifier op-amp circuit,
and although you have plenty of opamps you have a limited supply
of resistors. Let’s say that the only resistors available to you are
the following: 13 kOhm, 22 kOhm, 47 kOhm, and 82 kOhm. Using
only two resistors, what is the maximum gain of an inverting op
amp circuit that you could build with this limited component
selection?

-18.3

-0.15
-1.74

-6.3
14.
For this problem, refer to the following op amp circuit diagram, this
is a so-called non-inverting amplifier configuration.

What is the gain of this circuit,

G=
v
o

t
/
v
i

n
?

-11

11

10

-10
15.
What is the output voltage,
v
o

t
, of the following op amp circuit?

-400mV

600mV

-600mV

200 mV
16.
What is the static deflection of a spring having stiffness of 2000
N/m under the load of an object with mass of 10 kg? Recall that
the Earth’s gravitational acceleration is approximately
g=9.8m/se
c
2
and
F=m×g
.
4.9 mm

20.4 m

4.9 cm

2.04 m
17.
What is the wavenumber of a wave with length of 1 m?

1
m
−

2π
s
−

1
s
−

2π
m
−

18.
What is the period, T, of a time domain signal with a circular
frequency of
10π
rad/s
?

1/5
s

1/π
s

1/(10π)s

5s
19.
What sound pressure corresponds to a measured SPL of 90 dB?.

1.8 mPa

0.63 Pa

6.3 Pa

5 Pa
20.
What is the Helmholtz resonance of a bottle with
V=0.01
m
3
,
S=1c
m
2
, and
L=0.5cm
?

295 Hz

47 Hz

77 Hz

484 Hz
21.
What is the wavenumber corresponding to the third mode of the
string?

3πx/L

3π/L

πx/L

2π/L
22.
Calculate
f
1

0
for an acoustic cavity with rigid walls assuming dimensions
L
x
= 2m,
L
y
= 1.5m,
L
z
= 1.8m.

128 Hz

805 Hz

143 Hz

898 Hz
23.
Assuming the dimensions in the question above are approximate
for the interior of an automobile, why is it difficult to generate very
low frequency sound (< 40 Hz) in the car?
(Hint: Calculate the lowest resonant frequency of the acoustic
cavity)

The resonant frequency of the first standing wave in the car is

lower than 40 Hz.

The resonant frequency of the first standing wave in the car is

higher than 40 Hz.
24.
A room with dimensions 3 x 4 x 3 meters requires a reverberation
time of 2 seconds based upon a client’s desired design. What is
the necessary absorptive area of the room?

11.6
m
2

2.9
m
2
1.26
m
2

25.
What is the radius of reverberation?

The distance from a sound source to a listener where the sound

heard is equal parts due to reverberant sound and direct sound
from the source.

The distance from a sound source to a listener where the sound

heard is dominated by the direct sound from the source.

The distance from a sound source to a listener where the sound

heard is dominated by the reverberant sound.
26.
What is special about the wavelength of sound at 1500 Hz with
respect to human hearing?

It corresponds to the frequency of an acoustic wave that fits

between the ears.

It corresponds to the lowest frequency that a human can hear.

It corresponds to the resonant frequency of the brain.

27.
Atmospheric pressure is 101 kPa. Compute the acoustic pressure
that corresponds to the threshold of pain for the ear. What
percentage of atmospheric pressure is this?

2%

0.2%

200%
28.
What is the shape corresponding to the fourth mode of the string?
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1.
On a dry winter day when you shuffle your feet while walking
across a carpet an electrical charge builds up on your body. After
crossing a room, as you reach out for a metal doorknob you may
be surprised by a large spark! To create a spark the electric field
must be greater than
3x
10
6
Volts/meter. Let’s say that the spark is about 1 cm long. How much
static charge was built up on your body? (Assume that all of the
charge rushes to your finger-tip as you reach out for the
doorknob.)
Incorrect
2.
What is the equivalent resistance of three 1Ω resistors in parallel?

Correct
3.
Find the equivalent resistance of this network of resistors. (All
resistor values are in Ohms)
Correct
4.
Find the voltage at node “a” in the circuit.

Incorrect
5.
Find the voltage at node “b” in the circuit.

Incorrect
6.
What is the total current (i) flowing from the battery?

Correct
7.
What is the current
i
4
through the 4 Ohm resistor??

Incorrect
8.
What is the current
i
1

2
through the 12 Ohm resistor?

Incorrect
9.
What is the current i ?

Incorrect
10.
What is the current i
1
?

Incorrect
11.
A new D-cell battery is 1.5 Volts and has a capacity of about 10
Amp-hours, i.e., it can provide 1 Amp for 10 hours. How much
energy does the battery contain?
Correct
12.
A voltage source has an open circuit voltage of 15 Volts and it can
provide a short circuit current of 30 Amps. What is the maximum
power available from this voltage source?
Incorrect
13.
You are attempting to build an inverting amplifier op-amp circuit,
and although you have plenty of opamps you have a limited supply
of resistors. Let’s say that the only resistors available to you are
the following: 13 kOhm, 22 kOhm, 47 kOhm, and 82 kOhm. Using
only two resistors, what is the maximum gain of an inverting op
amp circuit that you could build with this limited component
selection?
Incorrect
14.
For this problem, refer to the following op amp circuit diagram, this
is a so-called non-inverting amplifier configuration.

What is the gain of this circuit,

G=
v
o

t
/
v
i

n
?
Correct
15.
What is the output voltage,
v
o

t
, of the following op amp circuit?
Correct
16.
What is the static deflection of a spring having stiffness of 2000
N/m under the load of an object with mass of 10 kg? Recall that
the Earth’s gravitational acceleration is approximately
g=9.8m/se
c
2
and
F=m×g
.

Incorrect
17.
What is the wavenumber of a wave with length of 1 m?
Incorrect
18.
What is the period, T, of a time domain signal with a circular
frequency of
10π
rad/s
?
Incorrect
19.
What sound pressure corresponds to a measured SPL of 90 dB?.
Correct
20.
What is the Helmholtz resonance of a bottle with
V=0.01
m
3
,
S=1c
m
2
, and
L=0.5cm
?
Incorrect
21.
What is the wavenumber corresponding to the third mode of the
string?
Incorrect
22.
Calculate
f
1

1
0
for an acoustic cavity with rigid walls assuming dimensions
L
x
= 2m,
L
y
= 1.5m,
L
z
= 1.8m.
Correct
23.
Assuming the dimensions in the question above are approximate
for the interior of an automobile, why is it difficult to generate very
low frequency sound (< 40 Hz) in the car?
(Hint: Calculate the lowest resonant frequency of the acoustic
cavity)
Correct
24.
A room with dimensions 3 x 4 x 3 meters requires a reverberation
time of 2 seconds based upon a client’s desired design. What is
the necessary absorptive area of the room?
Incorrect
25.
What is the radius of reverberation?
Incorrect
26.
What is special about the wavelength of sound at 1500 Hz with
respect to human hearing?
Incorrect
27.
Atmospheric pressure is 101 kPa. Compute the acoustic pressure
that corresponds to the threshold of pain for the ear. What
percentage of atmospheric pressure is this?
Incorrect
28.
What is the shape corresponding to the fourth mode of the string?
Teste 3

Test for Weeks 3 and 4

30 questions
1.
A loudspeaker has a diameter of 2 cm. At what frequency is ka less
than 1?

10 kHz

20 kHz

5 kHz
2.
A two-way speaker is designed with a woofer having a diameter of 15
cm. At what approximate frequency does the woofer become
directional?

10,000 Hz

1000 Hz

200 Hz

2000 Hz
3.
Why is the piston radiator modeled in a rigid, infinite, baffle?

The sound generated from the back of the radiator is in-phase with
the sound generated from the front of the radiator and would nearly
double the sound pressure in the far-field when the wavelength of
the sound wave is much smaller than the diameter of the radiator.

The sound generated from the back of the radiator is out-of-phase

with the sound generated from the front of the radiator and would
nearly cancel the sound pressure in the far-field when the
wavelength of the sound wave is much smaller than the diameter of
the radiator.

The sound generated from the back of the radiator is in-phase with
the sound generated from the front of the radiator and would nearly
double the sound pressure in the far-field when the wavelength of
the sound wave is much larger than the diameter of the radiator.

The sound generated from the back of the radiator is out-of-phase

with the sound generated from the front of the radiator and would
nearly cancel the sound pressure in the far-field when the
wavelength of the sound wave is much larger than the diameter of
the radiator.
4.
For a piston radiator, one is considered to be in the far-field of sound
radiation when the distance between the listener and the radiator is

Equal to the radius of the radiator

Twice the radius of the radiator

Much greater than the radius of the radiator

5.
The directivity function of a piston radiator can be described in terms
of a Bessel function:
H(θ)=(2J

1
(ka sin⁡θ))/(ka sin⁡θ )
What is the value of the directivity function when
θ=
0
0
(i.e., the radiation is “on-axis”)?

∞
½
6.
Which of the following statements must be true in order for a
speaker to be omnidirectional.

K=10

a
>> 1

a
=1

H(θ) = 1 for all θ

7.
The stiffness of a loudspeaker results from?

the surround

the spider

the dust cap

the magnet
8.
Harmonic Oscillator – What is the resonant frequency (in Hertz) of a
harmonic oscillator with mass of m = 1 kg and a spring constant of k
= 100 Nt/m?

100 Hz

62.8 Hz

10 Hz

1.6 Hz
9.
A mass of 1 kg is hung vertically from a spring with spring constant
100 Nt/m. How far is the spring stretched. (the acceleration of
gravity is
9.8m/se
c
2
)

9.8 cm

6.28 cm

100 cm

0.098 cm
10.
The maximum displacement at the tip of the tine of a tuning fork
oscillating at 440 Hz is 0.1 mm. What is the maximum acceleration in
g’s? (1 g =
9.8m/se
c
2
)

764 g's

78 g's

7.8 g's

156 g's
11.
Another way to write
j
1

7
is
-j

-1
12.
What is the magnitude of 3 + 4j ?

5j

25

7
13.
Find the polar coordinates for the complex number 1 – j.

r=√2,ø=3π/4

r=2,ø=5π/4

r=√2,ø=7π/4

r=2,ø=π/4
14.
Convert the polar form complex number
r=2,ø=π/6
into a + jb form

2−j

2–3j

√3+j
4+j
15.
The complex number
3
e
j

2
can be rewritten as

3+j

3j

3-j
16.
Express the product of
2
e
j

2
and
3
e
j

π
in a + jb form

6+j

-6j

6j
17.
What is the magnitude of
2
e
j

7
?

-2

2cos(π/7)
0.707
18.
How many electrons are stored in a 1 pF capacitor charged to 3
Volts?

300,000 electrons

1.87x
10
7
electrons
1.602x
10
1

9
electrons

3x
10
1

2
electrons
19.
A 1 mF capacitor is initially charged up to 10 Volts but after 5
minutes you measure the voltage again and find that it is only 7 Volts.
This voltage drop is due to internal “leakage” current in the capacitor,
what is this leakage current?

0.6 Amp

10
−

6
Amp

10
−

5
Amp

10
−

2
Amp
20.
A series RC circuit with a 1 GΩ resistor (
10
9
Ohms
) and an initially uncharged capacitor of value 100 mF was connected
to a 1 Volt DC voltage source precisely at the beginning of this year at
an electrical engineers’ New Years Eve celebration, (12:00 AM on
January 1, 2013). If we measure the voltage across the capacitor next
year on January 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM, what value will we measure?

1V

0.0027 V

0.73 V

0.27 V
21.
You have a factory that has been producing RC low-pass filters using
10-6 F capacitors and 1,000 Ohm resistors. Suddenly the worldwide
supply of capacitors dries up and you now have to build filters with
the same electrical characteristics but you have to use inductors and
resistors rather than capacitors and resistors. If you want to continue
using your supply of 1,000 Ohm resistors, what value inductors
should you use to build low-pass filters with the same characteristics
as the RC filters you were building?

10
−

3
Henry

10
3
Henry

10
−
6
Henry

1 Henry
22.
An RC low-pass filter has time constant of RC =
10
−

5
sec. What is it the magnitude of its response at 10 kHz?

0.847

1.000

0.103

0.717
23.
A L-R high-pass filter is constructed of a 0.1 mH inductor and a 10
Ohm resistor. What is the magnitude of its response at 10 kHz?

0.532

0.717

0.847

0.996
24.
Timbre is best described as that property of a sound that …

is related to the perceived loudness of a sound

is characterized by the frequency spectrum of a sound

encompasses all sound qualities that are not related to either pitch or
loudness
determines the perceived pitch of a musical sound
25.
You have been invited to sing Happy Birthday at your great
grandmother’s upcoming 100th birthday party and you want to do a
good job of it – your great grandma is a fairly impatient sort and she
won’t hesitate to tell you if you are singing flat. To avoid a scene on
the big day you decide to record one of your practice sessions and
perform a spectral analysis on the recording to determine if you are
singing in tune. Let’s say that you want to have a 0.1 second time
resolution so you can check the fast notes too, and let’s also assume
that you are going to sing Happy Birthday in the key of C so the
lowest note will have a frequency of 256 Hz. As a percentage of that
frequency, what will be the frequency resolution of your analysis?

10%

3.9%

1%

0.4%
26.
We generally are interested in only the magnitude of the spectrum of
a sound for the following reason?

We don't know the starting and ending time of the sound

The phase of the sound generally is unimportant for how it is

perceived

It treats the sine and cosine terms in the Fourier spectrum equally

All of the above

27.
A low pass RC filter with RC =
10
−

3
seconds is used to filter a recording of a piccolo and a tuba playing a
duet. Let’s say that on one particular note the piccolo is playing a high
C at 1024 Hz and the tuba is playing a low A at 55 Hz. Assume that
both notes have the same amplitude in the unfiltered sound, by how
many dB is the piccolo sound attenuated relative to the tuba?

10 dB

0.1 dB

3 dB

16 dB
28.
An electric guitar pickup has the following parameters:
L≈2.5
Henry,
R≈30,000
Ohms (this is the effective resistance at the pickup’s resonant
frequency including magnet losses) and
C≈150pF
. What is the frequency where the output of the pickup is greatest, i.e.,
at what frequency is the resonance peak of the pickup?

8.2 kHz

10.5 kHz

12.9 kHz

6 kHz
29.
Consider the same electric guitar pickup with parameters:
L≈2.5Henry
,
R≈30,000Ohms
, and
C≈150pF
. By how much is the voltage output of the pickup boosted at the
resonance peak compared to low frequency (near 0 Hz)?

17

4.3

2.5
30.
If you could reduce the total capacitance of an electric guitar pickup
by increasing the thickness of the insulation on the wire used to wind
the pickup this would have the following effect on the pickup
characteristics,

it would lower the resonant frequency

the pickup will be hotter, i.e., the output voltage will increase

high frequencies will be attenuated

none of the above