Class IX Sci CH - 11 VI

Class - 9th Science
Chapter - 11 Assignment
SOUND
1. What do you mean by a wave?
2. What does wave transfer-matter or energy?
3. Where is density of air higher at compression or at rarefaction?
4. What is relation between time period and frequency?
5. Name two animals that communicate using infrasound?
6. Name the waves used by bats while flying in the dark.
7. A girl claps and hears the echo after reflection from cliff which is 660 m away. If the velocity
of sound is 330 ms–1, calculate the time taken for hearing the echo.
8. Explain, how is the principle of echo used by the dolphin to locate small fish as its prey?
9. Give two practical applications of the reflection of sound waves.
10. Why are longitudinal waves called pressure waves?
11. Sound travels faster on a rainy day than on a dry day. Why?
12. What is SONAR?
13. Define one hertz.
14. Define wavelength.
15. What is the audible range of the average human ear?
16. What is sound and how is it produced?
17. Why is sound wave called as longitudinal wave?
18. Flash and thunder are produced simultaneously. But, thunder is heard a few seconds after
the flash is seen, why?
19. The frequency of a source of sound is 100 Hz. How many times does it vibrate in a minute?
20. Name the two types of mechanical waves.
21. What is a trough?
22. What do you understand by the term infrasonic vibrations?
23. Which of the following sound waves we can hear : 10 Hz, 500 Hz, 1500 Hz, 12000 Hz, 25000
Hz?
24. What do you understand by the term ultrasonic vibrations?
25. What do you understand by the term echo?
26. Name the term associated with the travelling disturbance in a medium.
27. What is the other name of a long flexible spring?
28. Can you produce both types of waves (i.e., longitudinal and transverse) on a slinky?
29. Where is the density of air higher; at compressions or at rarefactions?
30. Name the quantity that represents the length of one complete wave.
31. What is the distance between two consecutive crests in a wave called?
32. Is the amplitude of a wave the same, as the amplitude of the vibrating body producing the
wave?
33. What is the range of frequencies associated with :
a) Infrasound b) Ultrasound
34. Give difference between loudness and intensity of the sound.
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35. What is a stethoscope? Name the principle on which a stethoscope works.
36. The pulse rate of a man is 80 beats in one minute. Calculate its frequency.
37. What is echo? Explain the conditions that have to be satisfied to hear an echo?
38. Why do echoes produced in an empty auditorium usually decrease when it is full of
audience?
39. Which wave property determines :
a) loudness b) pitch
40. Sound is produced due to a vibratory motion, then why a vibrating pendulum does not
produce sound?
41. Distinguish between transverse and longitudinal waves (three points).
42. State three characteristics of a musical sound. On what factors do they depend?
43. How does the sound produced by a musical instrument, reach your ears? Astronauts need
radio transmitter to talk to each other on Moon. Why?
44. Explain, why can echoes not be heard in a small room?
45. What change, if any, would you expect in the characteristics of musical sound when we
increase :
a) its frequency b) its amplitude?
46. With the help of a labelled diagram show that sound needs a material medium for its
propagation .
47. A particular transmitter of Aakashvani broadcasts at 420.5 m wavelength. (Given the speed
of radio waves 3× 108 ms–1) Calculate the frequency at which the radio station broadcasts
its program. What is the direction of oscillations of the medium particles through which a :
a) Transverse wave is propagating? b) Longitudinal wave is propagating?
48. A tuning fork produces 1024 waves in 4 seconds. Calculate the frequency to the tuning fork.
49. A human heart, on an average, is found to beat 75 times a minute. Calculate its frequency.
50. A boat at anchor is rocked by waves whose consecutive crests are 100 m apart. The wave
velocity of the moving crests is 20 m/s. What is the frequency of rocking of the boat?
51. A longitudinal wave is produced on a toy slinky. The wave travels at a speed of 30 cm/s and
the frequency of the wave is 20 Hz. What is the minimum separation between the
consecutive compressions of the slinky?
52. A bat can hear sound at frequencies up to 120 kHz. Determine the wavelength of sound in
the air at this frequency. Take the speed of sound in the air as 344 m/s.
53. A gun is fired in the air at a distance of 660 m, from a person. He hears the sound of the gun
after 2 s. What is the speed of sound?
54. A child hears an echo from a cliff 4 seconds after the sound from a powerful cracker is
produced. How far away is the cliff from the child? Velocity of sound in air at 20°C is 344
m/s.
55. A ship sends on a high frequency sound wave and receives an echo after 1 second. What is
the depth of the sea? Speed of sound in water is 1500 m/s.
56. A wave moves a distance of 8 m in 0.05 s :
a) Find the velocity of the wave.
b) What is the wavelength of the wave if its frequency is 200 Hz?
57. A stone is dropped into a well 44.1 m deep. The splash is heard 3.13 seconds after the stone
is dropped. Find the velocity of sound in air.
58. Calculate (a) the wavelength (b) the time period of a tuning fork of frequency 512 Hz which
is set to vibrate. Velocity of sound in air is 320 m/s.
59. What is reverberation ? How reverberation is reduced in an auditorium or in a big hall ?
60. What is ultrasound? Explain how do bats use ultrasound to catch a prey ?Give any two uses of
ultrasound.
61. Why are sound waves called mechanical waves?
62. What is the range of frequencies associated with?
a) Infrasound b) Ultrasound
63. Give two laws of reflection of sound.
64. A sound wave travels a speed of 340m/s if the wavelength of wave is 14km. What is the
frequency of the wave.
65. Frequency of a sound wave is 20 hertz. Calculate its time period.
66. Write two differences between transverse and longitudinal waves.
67. Define wavelength , amplitude and frequency.
68. Explain the working of human ear.
69. Define Supersonic.
70. Distinguish between loudness and intensity of sound. Write any two points of difference.
71. A person is listening to a sound of 400 Hz sitting at a distance of 450 m from the source of the sound.
What is the time interval between two successive compressions from the source ?
72. A sound wave has a frequency 2 Hz and wave length 40 cm. How long will it take to travel
1.6km?
73. Derive the relationship between speed , wavelength and frequency.
74. Explain why the flash of lightning reaches us first and the sound of thunder is heard a little
later ?
75. Why are the ceiling of concert halls made curved ?
76. A wave is moving in air with a velocity of 340 m/s. Calculate the wavelength if its frequency
is:-
a) 512 vibrations per second b) 100 Hz.
77. Name the physical quantity described by:-
a) Maximum displacement of a particle from its mean position.
b) Distance between two consecutive crests.
78. What is meant by statement 300Hz frequency?

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