WAVES-3

1)

A siren emitting a sound of frequency 1000 Hz moves away from you toward a clif
at a speed of 10m/s.
a) What is the frequency of the sound you hear coming directly from the siren?
b) What is the frequency of the sound you hear reflected of the clif?
c) What beat frequency would you hear? Take the speed of sound in air as, 330m/s.

2)

A whistle of frequency 540 Hz rotates in a circle of radius 2m at a linear speed of

30m/s. What is the lowest and highest frequency heard by an observer a long
distance way at rest with respect to the centre of circle. Take speed of sound in air
at 330m/s. Can the apparent frequency by ever equal to actual?

3)

A car approaching a crossing at a speed of 20m/s sounds a horn of frequency

500Hz when 80m from the crossing. Speed of sound in air is 330m/s what
frequency is heard by an observer 60m from the crossing on the straight road
which crosses car road at right angles?

4)

A source of sound of frequency 1000Hz moves to the right with a speed of 32m/s
relative to the ground. To its right is a reflecting surface moving to the left with a
speed of 64 m/s relative to the ground. Take the speed of sound in air to be 332
m/s. Find.
a) the wavelength of the sound emitted in air by the source.
b) the number of waves arriving per second at the reflecting surface
c) the speed of the reflected waves.
d) the wavelength of the reflected waves.

5)

Three sound sources A, B and C have frequencies 400, 401 and 402 Hz
respectively. Calculate the number of beats noted per second.

6)

Two tuning forks with natural frequencies 340 Hz each move relative to a
stationary observer. One fork moves away from the observer while the other
moves towards him at the same speed. The observer hears beats of frequency 3
Hz. Find the speed of the tuning fork (velocity of sound in air is 340 m/s).

7)

A source emitting a sound of frequency f is placed at a large distance from an

observer.
The source starts moving towards the observer with a uniform
acceleration a. Find the frequency heard by the observer corresponding to the
wave emitted just after the source starts. The speed of sound in the medium is v.

8)

Two trains A and B simultaneously start moving along parallel tracks from a station
along same direction. A starts with constant acceleration 2 m/s 2 from rest while B
with the same acceleration but with initial velocity of 40m/s. After 20s passenger
of A hears whistle of B. If frequency of whistle is 1194 Hz and velocity of sound in
air is 322 m/s, calculate frequency observed by the passenger.

9)

A source of sonic oscillations with frequency v 0 = 1700 Hz and a receiver are

located at the same point. At the moment t = 0 the source starts receding from
the receiver with constant acceleration w = 10.0 m/s 2. Assuming the velocity of
sound to be equal to v = 340m/s. Find the oscillation frequency registered by the
stationary receiver t = 10.0s after the start of motion.

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11)

A source of sound of frequency 1000Hz moves uniformly along a straight line with
velocity 0.8 times velocity of sound. An observer is located at a distance l = 250m
from the line. Find:
a) the frequency of the sound at the instant when the source is closest to the
observer.
b) the distance of the source when he observes no change in the frequency.
A fighter plane moving in a vertical loop with constant speed of radius R. the
centre of the loop is at a height h directly overhead of an observer standing on the
ground. The observer receives maximum frequency of the sound produced by the
plane when it is nearest to him. Find the speed of the plane. Velocity of sound in
air is v.

KEY:
1)

a) 970.6 Hz
is zero.

2)

495 Hz, 594 Hz

3)

525.5 Hz

4)

d' = 0.3m in the direction of Vs.

d" = 0.364m in the opposite direction of Vs.

5)

1 Hz

6)

1.5 m/sec

7)

f'

8)

1080 Hz

9)

b) 1031.3 Hz

2vf2
2vf a

fo
2at
1
v

1.35KHz

10)

a) 2777.7 Hz

11)

Vs

R
h2 R2

, Cos

b) 320 m
R
h

c) 60.7 Hz , but the correct answer