Travelling Waves
Physics concepts related to travelling waves including wave properties, wave equations, wave types (longitudinal, transverse, and combined), wave propagation, phase differences, and wave speed calculations
Questions
Crest or troughs in a travelling wave are
- moving entities
- stationary entitites
- moving entities along +Y direction
- moving entities along -Y direction
The distance between two consecutive crests or troughs are equal in a wave
- True
- False
Ocean waves of time period $0.01$ second have a speed $15 m/s$. What is the adjacent crest and the trough is:
- $15 \times 10^{-2} m$
- $7.5 \times 10^{-2} m$
- $3.25 \times 10^{-2} m$
- $30 \times 10^{-2} m$
If the distance between two successive troughs in a transverse wave is 8 cm, then the amplitude of that wave is 5 cm.
- True
- False
Water waves are:
- Longitudinal
- Transverse
- Both Longitudinal and transverse
- Neither longitudinal nor transverse
A transverse wave travelling on a taut string is represented by $y = 0.01 \sin 2 \pi ( 10 t - x )$ where y and x are in metre and t is in second. Then
- The speed of the wave is 10 m/s.
- Closest points on the string which differ in phase by $60^o$ are $\dfrac16\ m$ apart.
- Maximum particle speed is $\frac { \pi } { 5 } { m } / { s }$
- The phase of a certain point on the string changes by $120 ^ { \circ }$ is $\dfrac1{20} $seconds
What is the phase difference between two successive crests in the wave?
- $\pi$
- $\frac{\pi}{2}$
- $2\pi$
- $4\pi$
The wave produced by a motor boat sailing in water are
- Transverse
- Longitudinal
- Longitudinal and Transverse
- Stationary
A crest is the point of maximum displacement of a particle in a wave. State whether true or false.
- True
- False
Transverse mechanical wave can travel in
- Iron rod
- Hydrogen gas
- Water surface
- Stretched string
Which of the following can travel through vacuum?
- Light waves
- Heat waves
- $X$-rays
- Sound waves
Which of the following does not identify a necessary property of wave motion?
- transmission of energy
- periodic motion
- disturbance
- a material medium
During propagation of a plane progressive mechanical wave :
- all the particles are vibrating in the same phase
- amplitude of all the particles is equal
- particles of the medium execute S.H.M.
- wave velocity depends upon the nature of the medium
Distance between crest and through is
- $\displaystyle \frac{\lambda}{4}$
- $\displaystyle \frac{2\lambda}{6}$
- $\displaystyle \frac{\lambda}{2}$
- $\displaystyle \frac{2\lambda}{3}$
A point on the wave, wherein the displacement of the wave is ___________ is known as a crest
- Maximum
- Minimum
- Zero
- None of the above
A string tied to a wall is given a flip at the other end with an initial velocity u, which generates a curve. After sometime, this curve is seen to reach the wall with the same speed. The transfer of the kinetic energy takes place due to
- air molecules surrounding the string
- sound wave carried by the string
- molecules on the string
- none of the above
A metal hammer hits a spherical bell, when the circuit in a calling bell is switched ON, the propogation of sound takes place due to
- Air
- electric current
- metal bell
- none of the above
Waves that are combination of longitudinal and transverse nature are
- water waves
- light waves
- shock waves
- sound waves
Particles in the combination of longitudinal and transverse waves moves in
- straight line
- circles
- rectangles
- vibrates
Waves created in Tsunami are
- Longitudinal waves
- Transverse waves
- Longitudinal and transverse waves
- Neither longitudinal or transverse
Two particles in a medium are vibrating with a path difference of $10$ m and corresponding time difference is $0.1$s. The speed of wave in the medium is?
- $100$ m/s
- $300$ m/s
- $50$ m/s
- $200$ m/s
A transverse wave travels along z-axis. The particles of the medium moves
- Along the z-axis
- Along the x-axis
- Along the y-axis
- In the x-y plane
The particle displacement of a travelling longitudinal wave is represented by S=S (x,t). The midpoints of a compression zone and an adjacent rarefaction zone are represented by the letter 'C' and 'R' Which of the following is true?
- ${ \left| \partial S/\partial x \right| } _{ C }={ \left| \partial S/\partial x \right| } _{ R }$
- ${ \left| \partial S/\partial t \right| } _{ C }={ \left| \partial S/\partial t \right| } _{ R }=0$
- ${ \left( pressure \right) } _{ C }-{ \left( pressure \right) } _{ R }=2{ \left| \partial S/\partial x \right| } _{ C }x$ Bulk modulus of air.
- Particles of air are stationary mid-way between 'C' and 'R'.
The equation of a transverse wave travelling in a rope is given by $y = 5\sin (4t - 0.02x)$, where $y$ and $x$ are in cm and time $t$ is in second.
Then the maximum transverse speed of wave in the rope is
- $125\ cm/s$
- $200\ cm/s$
- $250\ cm/s$
- $100\ cm/s$
Two small boats are $10m$ apart on a lake. Each pops up and down with a period of $4.0 seconds$ due to wave motion on the surface of water. When one boat is at its highest point, the other boat is at its lowest point. Both boats are always within a single cycle of the waves. The speed of the waves is:
- $2.5m/s$
- $5.0m/s$
- $14m/s$
- $40m/s$
Disturbance $y(x, t)$ of a wave propagating in the position x-direction is given by $y = \dfrac {1}{1 + x^{2}}$ at time $t = 0$ and by $y = \dfrac {1}{[1 + (x - 1^{2})]}$ at $t = 2\ s$, where $x$ and $y$ are in meters. The shape of the wave disturbance does not change during the propagation. The velocity of wave in m/s is
- $2.0$
- $4.0$
- $0.5$
- $1.0$
In gases which wave cannot propagate
- standing wave
- longitudinal wave
- transverse wave
- none
A transverse wave consists of:
- only crest
- only trough
- both crest and trough
- rarefaction and compressions
For propagation of a mechanical wave, the medium must possess
- inertia
- conductivity
- plasticity
- elasticity
Waves can undergo
- reflection
- refraction
- diffraction
- All of the above
Water waves are an example of waves that involve
- longitudinal motions.
- transverse motions.
- a combination of both longitudinal and transverse motions
- some unknown type of motions,
Which of the following waves do not require any kind of medium to propagate ?
- Sound waves
- Earthquake
- Light Waves
- Water surface waves
State whether true or false :
With the change of medium, the frequency doesn't change, however both the velocity and wavelength change
- True
- False
With propagation of longitudinal waves through a medium, the quantity transmitted is :
- matter
- energy
- energy and matter
- energy, matter and momentum
When a wave is reflected from a ___________ medium, there is a phase change of $\pi$.
- rarer
- denser
- both
- none of the above
State true or false :
Mechanical Waves are waves which propagate through a material medium.
- True
- False
Which of the following statements are true for wave motion ?
- Mechanical transverse waves can propagate through all mediums
- Longitudinal waves can propagate through solids only
- Mechanical transverse waves can propagate through solids only
- Longitudinal waves can propagate through vacuum
A man sets his watch by the noon whistle of a factory at a distance of $1.5 km.$ Then the number of seconds his watch slower than the clock of the factory (velocity of sound $= 332 m/s$) is
- $4.52 sec$
- $5.35 sec$
- $2.18 sec$
- $3.76 sec$
When a wave is reflected from a ___________ medium, there is no change of phase.
- rarer
- denser
- both
- none of the above