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IIT – JEE ASSINGMENT DATE:

TOPIC: WAVES

1. Two identical springs of spring constant K each are connected in series and parallel as shown:

A mass M is suspended from each of the two combinations. The ratio of their frequencies, ns and n p ,
of vertical oscillations will be:
(A) 2 : 1 (B) 1 : 2 (C) 1 : 4 (D) 4 : 1

2. The displacement time graph of a particle executing OSCILLATION AND WAVES is as shown
below:

The correspoing (restoring) force-time graph, of the particle, would be

(A) (B)

(C) (D)

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3. A mass M is attached to a horizontal spring, of force constant K, that has been fixed on one side to a
rigid support, as shown. The mass oscillates, on a frictionless surface, with a time period, T, and
amplitude A. When the mass M is in its means position, another mass m is gently placed on it. The
new amplitude of oscillations of the combination will be

 M  m M M
(A)  M  m (B) A (C) A (D) A
M  M  m  M  m

4. A particle of mass m is located in a one dimensional potential field. Its potential energy is given by
V  x  = A 1–cos px  where A and p are constants. The period, of small amplitude oscillations, of
the particle is would be
m m m 1 Ap
(A) 2  (B) 2  (C) 2  (D)
Ap Ap 2
A 2 m

5. An object of relative density d is suspended from a thin steel wire. The fundamental frequency, for
transverse standing waves, in the wire is 300 Hz. The object is immersed in water so that one half of
its volume gets submerged. The new fundamental frequency in, Hz would be
1 1
 2d  1   2d  2d  2d  1 
(C) 300  (D) 300 
2 2

(A) 300   (B) 300    

 2d   2d  1   2d  1   2d 

6. A massless rod, of length L, is suspended by two identical strings AB and CD of equal length. A
block of mass m is suspended from point O such that BO is equal to x. It is then observed that the
frequency of the first harmonic, in string AB, is equal to the frequency of the second harmonic
frequency in string CD. The value of x is:

L 4L 2L L
(A) (B) (C) (D)
5 5 5 4

7. The second harmonic, in a given open pipe is in resonance c with frequency f1. Now one end of the
tube is closed and it is observed that resonance again occurs; for the nth harmonic. With an increased
frequency f 2 Choose the correct option.
3 5
(A) n  3, f2  f1 (B) n  3, f2  f1
4 4
3 5
(C) n  5, f2  f1 (D) n  5, f2  f1
4 4

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8. A police car, with a siren of frequency 8kHz is moving with a uniform velocity of 36km / h towards a
tall building, which reflects the sound waves. The speed of sound in air is 320 m/s. The frequency, of
the reflected sound of the siren, as heard by the car driver, would be
(A) 8.50 kHz (B) 8.25 kHz (C) 7.75 kHz (D) 7.50 kHz

9. The source of a sound wave, of true frequency f travels horizontally to the right. It is reflected
from a large vertical plane surface moving to the left with a speed v. The speed of sound in
medium is C. for this system, a student writes the following, four conclusion:

a)The number of waves striking the surface per second, is f

c  v
c
b) For a stationary observer the wavelength of reflected the wave is,
c  v  c
c  v  f
 c  v  
c) For a stationary observer the frequency of reflected wave is  f 
  c  v  
vf
d) The number of beats, heard by a stationary listener, to the left of the reflecting surface, is
cv
The correct conclusions are:
(A) a, b, c (B) a, b, d (C) b, c, d (D) a, c, d

10. An earthquake generates both transverse (S) and longitudinal (P) sound waves in the earth. The
speed of S waves is about 4.5 km/s and that of P waves is about 6.0 km/s. A seismograph records P
and S waves from an earthquake. The first P wave arrives 4.0 minutes before the first S wave. The
epicenter of the earthquake is likely located at a distance of about
(A) 25 km (B) 250 km (C) 2,500 km (D) 5,000 km

11. A motor cycle starts from rest and accelerates along a straight path at 2m/s2. At the starting point of
the motor cycle there is a stationary electric siren. How far has the motor cycle gone when the driver
hears the frequency of the siren at 94% of its value when the motor cycle was at rest at its starting
point (Speed of sound = 330 m/s)
(A) 49m (B) 98m (C) 147m (D) 196m

12. A turning fork of true frequency 256 Hz, makes 5 beat/s with the vibrating string of a piano. The beat
frequency decreases to 2 beat/s, when the tension in the piano string is slightly increased. The
frequency of the piano string, before increasing the tension, was
(A) (256+2) Hz (B) (256–2) Hz (C) (256–5) Hz (D) (256+5) Hz

13. The ends of a stretched wire, of length L, are fixed at x = 0 and

x = L. In one experiment the displacement of the wire is
y1 = A sin (x/L) sin t and energy is E1 and, in another experiment, its displacement is y2 = A sin
(2x/L) sin2t and energy is E2. Then
(A) E2 = E1 (B) E2 = 2E1 (C) E2 = 4E1 (D) E2 = 16E1

14. A transverse wave is described by the equation

 x
y  y 0 sin 2   ft  
 
The maximum particle velocity is equal to four times the wave velocity if:
y y
(A)    0 (B)    0 (C)   y0 (D)   2y0
4 2

15. y(x1t) = 0.8/[(4x + 5t)2+5] represents a moving pulse, where x and y in metre and t in second. then:
a) Pulse is moving in tx direction
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 b) in 25 sec. it will travel a distance of 2.5m
c) its maximum displacement is 0.16m
d) it is a symmetric pulse
The correct conclusion are:
(A) a, b, c (B) b, c, d (C) a, c, d (D) a, b, d

16. The vibration of a string of length 'ℓ' cm fixed at both ends are represented by the equation:
x
y  4 sin cos 90t, where x and y are in cm and t in seconds. The maximum displacement of a
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particle at a position x = 2cm is:
3
(A) 2 (B) (C) 2 3 (D) 4
2

17. The equation of a wave disturbance is given by y = 0.02 sin  + 100 t cos 10x, where x & y are in
2
metre. The displacement node occurs at:
(A) 0 m (B) 0.1m (C) 0.15 m (D) 0.2 m

18. If n1, n2 and n3 are the fundamental frequencies of three segments into which a string is divided.
Then the original fundamental frequency n of the string as given by:
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
(A)    (B)   
n n1 n2 n3 n n1 n2 n3
(C) n  n1  n2  n3 (D) n = n1 + n2 + n

19. A wave represented by the equation y = a cos (kx – t) is superposed with another wave to form a
stationary wave such that point x = 0 is a node. The equation for the other wave is:
(A) a cos (kx – t) (B) –a sin (kx – t)
(C) –a cos (kx – t) (D) –a cos (kx + t)

20. Two waves each of frequency 'f' and amplitude. A have a phase difference  . The frequency and
2
amplitude of resultant wave due to their superposition will be:
A f f A
(A) f , (B) f , 2 A (C) , 2A (D) ,
2 2 2 2

21. In a 10cm long stretched string. Standing waves are produced. If the string vibrates in fifth mode of
vibration and wave velocity is 200 m/s. Then frequency of vibration is:
(A) 2 Hz (B) 1 Hz (C) 5 Hz (D) 10 Hz

22. A vibrating string of certain length l under a tension T resonates with a mode corresponding to the
first over tone (third harmonic) of an air column of length 75 cm inside a tube closed at one end. The
string also generates 4 beats per second when excited along with a tuning fork of frequency n. Now
when the tension of the string is slightly increased the number of beats reduces 2 per second.
Assuming the velocity of sound in air to be 340 m/s, the frequency n of the tuning fork in Hz is
(A) 344 (B) 336 (C) 117.3 (D) 109.3

23. Two simple pendulum of length 1.44 m and 1.00 m, respectively start oscillating together. After how
many oscillations of the first pendulum will they again swing together?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 8 (D) 18

24. A transverse sinusoidal wave moves along a string in the positive x-direction at a speed of 10 cm/s.
The wave length of the wave is 0.5 m and its amplitude is 10 cm. At a particular time t, the snap-
short of the wave is shown in figure. The velocity of point P when its displacement is 5 cm, is

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  3 ˆm  3 ˆm  3 ˆm  3 ˆm
(A) j (B)  j (C) i (D)  i
50 s 50 s 50 s 50 s

25. The difference between the apparent frequency of a source of sound as perceived by a stationary
observer during the approach and recession of source is 2% of the natural frequency of source.
If the velocity of sound in air is 300 ms–1, the velocity of source is
(A) 2 ms–1 (B) 3 ms–1 (C) 6 ms–1 (D) 8 ms–1

26. The (x, t) graph of a particle undergoing simple harmonic motion is shown in figure. The
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acceleration of the particle at t= s is
3

3 2 cm 2 2 cm 3 2 cm
(A)  (B)  cm/s2 (C) (D)  
32 s2 32 32 s 2 32 s2

27. The amplitude of wave disturbance propagating in positive x-axis is given by

1 1
y= at t = 0 and by y = at t = 2s
1 x 2
1  ( x  1)2
when x and y are in metres. The shape of the wave disturbance does not change during propagation.
The velocity of the wave is
(A) 0.2 ms–1 (B) 0.3 ms–1 (C) 0.5 ms–1 (D) 0.9 ms–1

28. A uniform rod of length L and mass M is pivoted at the centre. Its two ends are attached to two
springs of equal spring constants k. The springs are fixed to rigid supports as shown in figure, and
rod is free to oscillate in the horizontal plane. The rod is gently pushed through a small angle  in
one direction and released. The frequency of oscillation is

1 2k 1 k 1 6k 1 24k
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2 M 2 M 2 M 2 M

29. A closed organ pipe and an open organ pipe have their first over tones identical in frequency. If the
length of closed pipe is 30 cm, then the length of open pipe will be
(A) 20 cm (B) 30 cm (C) 35 cm (D) 40 cm

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30. A 20 cm long string, having mass of 1.0 g, is fixed at both ends. The tension in the string is 0.5 N.
The string is set into vibrations using an external vibrator of frequency 100 Hz. The separation (in
cm) between the successive nodes on the string is
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 2.5 (D) 11.2

31. A hawk is flying directly away from a bird watcher and directly towards a distant cliff at a speed of
15 ms–1. The hawk producers a shrill cry whose frequency is 800 Hz. The speed of sound in air is
340 ms–1. The frequency of sound that the bird watcher hears directly form the bird and the
frequency of sound that the bird watcher hears in the echo that is reflected from the cliff, are
(A) 766 Hz, 837 Hz (B) 766 Hz, 766 Hz
(C) 837 Hz, 766 Hz (D) 837 Hz, 837 Hz

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 ANSWER KEY

1. (B) 2. (D) 3. (C) 4. (B) 5. (A)

6. (A) 7. (D) 8. (A) 9. (A) 10. (C)
11. (B) 12. (C) 13. (C) 14. (B) 15. (B)
16. (C) 17. (C) 18. (B) 19. (D) 20. (B)
21. (C) 22. (A) 23. (B) 24. (A) 25. (B)
26. (D) 27. (C) 28. (C) 29. (D) 30. (A)
31. (A)

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