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    National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

    PH1003: Waves and Optics

    Assignment 4

    1. The equation of a transverse wave traveling along a string is given by y = 0.3 sin π(0.5x − 50t), where y
    and x are in centimeters and t in seconds.
    (a) Find the amplitude, wavelength, wave number, frequency, period and velocity of the wave.
    (b) Find the maximum transverse speed of any particle in the string.
    2. What is the equation for a longitudinal wave traveling in the negative x direction with amplitude 0.003
    m, frequency 5 sec−1 , and speed 3000 m/sec?
    3. A long uniform string of mass density 0.1 kg/m is stretched with a force of 50 N. One end of the string
    (x = 0) is oscillated transversely (sinusoidally) with an amplitude of 0.02 m and a period of 0.1 sec, so
    that traveling waves in the +x direction are set up.
    (a) What is the velocity of the waves?
    (b) What is their wavelength?
    dy
    (c) If at the driving end (x = 0) the displacement (y) at t = 0 is 0.01 m with dt negative, what is the
    equation of the traveling waves?
    4. It is observed that a pulse requires 0.1 sec to travel from one end to the other of a long string. The
    tension in the string is provided by passing the string over a pulley to a weight which has 100 times the
    mass of the string.
    (a) What is the length of the string?
    (b) What is the equation of the third normal mode?
    5. A pulse traveling along a stretched string is described by the following equation:

    b3
    y(x, t) =
    b2 + (2x − ut)2

    (a) Sketch the graph of y against x for t = O.


    (b) What are the speed of the pulse and its direction of travel?
    (c) The transverse velocity of a given point of the string is defined by
    ∂y
    vy =
    ∂t
    Calculate vy as a function of x for the instant t = 0.

    1
    6. A wave with ω = 10 s−1 and ⃗k = 7x̂ + 6ŷ − 3ẑ m−1 has phase ϕ = π/3 at the point (0,0,0) at t = 0.
    (a) Calculate the wavelength of the wave.
    (b) At what time will this value of phase reach the point (1, 1, 1) m?
    (c) What is the phase at the point (1, 0, 0) m at t = 1 s?
    (d) What is the phase velocity of the wave?
    7. What are the wave number and angular frequency of the wave ξ(x, t) = A cos2 (2x − 3t) where x and t
    are in m and sec respectively?
    8. Consider the wave equations

    1 ∂2
     
    1
    ∇2 − 2 2 Ψ(⃗r, t) = 2 Ψ(⃗r, t)
    c ∂t L

    (a) What is the dispersion relation for this wave equation?


    (b) Calculate the phase velocity and the group velocity.
    9. The angular frequency for a wave propagating inside a waveguide is given in terms of the wave number
    2 − 1
    k and the width b of the guide by ω = kc 1 − bπ2 k2 2 . Find the phase and group velocities of the wave.
    

    10. The angular frequency of the surface waves in a liquid is given by:
    s
    T k3
    ω = gk +
    ρ

    where k is the wave number, g is the acceleration due to gravity, ρ is the density of the liquid and T is
    the surface tension. Find the phase and group velocities for the limiting cases when the surface waves
    have: (a) very large wavelengths and (b) very small wavelengths.
    11. The wave equation (known as the Schrodinger equation) for a free particle moving in one dimension
    happens to be,

    ∂Ψ ℏ2 ∂ 2 Ψ
    iℏ =−
    ∂t 2m ∂x2
    where ℏ is Planck’s constant and m is the mass of the particle.
    (a) Obtain the dispersion relation.
    (b) Calculate the phase velocity and the group velocity.

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