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Sound

Appeared in 11 of the 11 available papers.

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Appears almost every year — treat as core

Typically worth
11.6 marks

Average per paper it appears in · 128 marks in total

Usual form
Short answer

45% of this chapter's 100 questions

Needs a diagram
25%

25 questions carry a figure — practise drawing them

Question-type distribution

  • Short answer45
  • Numerical16
  • Reasoning12
  • MCQ12
  • Definition6
  • Identification4
  • Diagram3
  • Fill in the blank2

Most frequent topics

Sound and vibrations 65Resonance 3Echo and the time of reflection 2Forced vibrations 2Loudness and amplitude 2Quality (timbre) of sound 1Echo and the speed of sound 1Quality of sound 1
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3(b)

Two waves of the same pitch have amplitudes in the ratio 1:3. What will be the ratio of their:

7(a)

It is observed that during march-past we hear a base drum distinctly from a distance compared to the side drums.

7(c)

Two pendulums C and D are suspended from a wire as shown in the given figure. Pendulum C is made to oscillate by displacing it from it's mean position. It is seen that D also starts oscillating.

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3(a)

Displacement distance graph of two sound waves A and B, travelling in a medium, are as shown in the diagram below.

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3(a)

Study the two sound waves and compare their:

7(b)

The diagram below shows a wire stretched over a sonometer. Stems of two vibrating tuning forks A and B are touched to the wooden box of the sonometer. It is observed that the paper rider (a small piece of paper folded at the centre) present on the wire flies off when the stem of vibrating tuning fork B is touched to the wooden box but the paper just vibrates when the stem of vibrating tuning fork A is touched to the wooden box.

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7(c)

A person is standing at the sea shore. An observer on the ship which is anchored in between a vertical cliff and the person on the shore fires a gun. The person on the shore hears two sounds, 2 seconds and 3 seconds after seeing the smoke of the fired gun. If the speed of sound in the air is 320 ms-1 then calculate:

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