Exam 6: Waves and Sound

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​Match each item with the correct statement below. -measured in decibels

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Water ripples are produced by making a cork oscillate up and down at a frequency of 5 Hz.The peaks of the ripples are 0.03 meters apart.What is the speed of the water ripples?

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Sound cannot travel through solid steel.

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Waves carry energy.

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A source emits sound at a fixed constant frequency f. -If the source moves away from you,and at the same time you run away from the source,the frequency you hear is the same as F

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Two uses of ultrasound are __________ and __________.

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If the source moves,the wavelength of the sound in front of the direction of motion is smaller than the wavelength behind the direction of motion.

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The speed of a wave is the same as the speed of the particles displaced by the wave.

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In order for two waves to interfere completely destructively,they must have the same amplitude.

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Match each item with the correct statement below. -when two wave are "out of phase" the result is

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Match each item with the correct statement below. -line used to show the path of a wave

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The distance between two successive 'like' points on a wave is the wave's __________.

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The wavelength of ultrasound at 1 million Hz in air where the speed of sound is 340 m/s is __________.

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A test tone used on a radio has a frequency of 1,000 Hz.What is the wavelength of this sound in air at normal room temperature? (The speed of sound is 344 meters per second. )

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Harmonics

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The distance between two successive 'like' points on a wave is the wave's

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Sound waves propagate in two dimensions.

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You can hear sound through an open window from sources that are not in your line of sight because of diffraction.

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In ultrasound the wavelength of the sound is much smaller than in normal sound.

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When two identical waves arrive at the same place in phase,there is

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