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OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES
S.No QUESTIONS ANSWER

1. An 8 kg body performs S.H.M. of amplitude 30 cm. The restoring 1.25s,
force is 60N, when the displacement is 30cm. Find: - a) Time period 3m/s2,
b) the acceleration c) potential and kinetic energy when the 1.44J,
displacement is 12cm? 7.56J
2. The piston in the cylinder head of a locomotive has a stroke (twice
the amplitude) of 1.0 m. If the piston moves with simple harmonic 100m/mi
motion with an angular frequency of 200 rad/min, what is its n.
maximum speed?
3. At what displacement in SHM a particle possesses half KE and half
+ A/√2
PE?
4. A simple pendulum is executing Simple harmonic motion with a
time period T. If the length of the pendulum is increased by 21 %. 10%
Find the increase in its time period?
5. A mass M is suspended from the spring of negligible mass. The
spring is pulled a little and then released, so that the mass executes
16/9
the SHM of time period T. If the mass is increased by m, its time
period becomes 5T/3. Find the ratio m/M.
6. Two SHMs are represented by the equations Y1 = 0.1sin(100πt +
π/3) and Y2 = 0.1cosπt . What is the phase difference of the velocity -π/6
of the particle 1 with respect to the velocity of particle 2.
7 A particle executing S.H.N. along a straight line has a velocity of
4m/s when its displacement from mean position is 3 m and 3 m /
1.047 s
s when displacement is 4m. Find the time taken to travel 2.5 m from
the positive extremity of its oscillation?
8. The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of moon is 1.7 m/s2.
What is the time period of a simple pendulum on the surface of
8.4 s
moon if its time period on the surface of earth is 3.5 s? (g on the
surface of earth is 9.8 )
9. A spring balance has a scale that reads from 0 to 50 kg. The length
of the scale is 20 cm. A body suspended from this balance, when
219 N
displaced and released, oscillates with a period of 0.6 s. What is the
weight of the body?
10. The period of a simple pendulum is measured inside a stationary lift
is found to be T. If the lift starts accelerating upwards with the √3/2 T
acceleration of g/3, then what will be the time period?
11. A string of mass 2.50 kg is under a tension of 200 N. The length of (0.5 s)
the stretched string is 20.0 m. If the transverse jerk is struck at one
end of the string, how long does the disturbance take to reach the
other end?
12. A steel wire has a length of 12.0 m and a mass of 2.10 kg. What
should be the tension in the wire so that speed of a transverse wave (2.06 x
on the wire equals the speed of sound in dry air at 20°C = 343 m/s 104 N)
13. The length of a sonometer wire is 0.75 m and density 9 x 103kg m-

3. It can bear a stress of 8.1 x 108 N/m2 without exceeding the elastic (200 Hz)
limit. What is the fundamental frequency that can be produced in
the wire?
14. A wave travelling along a string is given by y (x,t) = 0.005 sin (80x – 0.48 Hz,
3t) where the numerical are in SI units. Calculate: Frequency (b) 7.5 cm/s,
velocity of the wave. (c) amplitude. 0.015
m/s
15. A string of mass 2.50 kg is under a tension of 200 N. The length of
the stretched string is 20.0 m. If the transverse jerk is struck at one
0.5 s
end of the string, how long does the disturbance take to reach the
other end?
16. A steel wire has a length of 12.0 m and a mass of 2.10 kg. What
(2.06 x
should be the tension in the wire so that speed of a transverse wave
104 N)
on the wire equals the speed of sound in dry air at 20°C = 343 ms–1
17. A wire stretched between two rigid supports vibrates in its

fundamental mode with a frequency of 45 Hz. The mass of the wire (79 ms-1,
is 3.5 × 10–2 kg and its linear mass density is 4.0 × 10–2kg m–1. What 248N)
is (a) the speed of a transverse wave on the string, and (b) the tension
in the string?
18. A metre-long tube open at one end, with a movable piston at the
other end, shows resonance with a fixed frequency source (a tuning
fork of frequency 340 Hz) when the tube length is 25.5 cm or 79.3 347 ms-1
cm. Estimate the speed of sound in air at the temperature of the
experiment. The edge effects may be neglected.
19. A pipe 20 cm long is closed at one end. Which harmonic mode of the
pipe is resonantly excited by a 430 Hz source ? Will the same source
(1st , No)
be in resonance with the pipe if both ends are open? (speed of sound
in air is 340 ms–1)
20. The frequencies of two tuning forks A and B are 250 Hz and 255 Hz
respectively. Both are sounded together. How many beats will be (25)
heard in 5 seconds?

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S.No QUESTIONS ANSWER

13. The length of a sonometer wire is 0.75 m and density 9 x 103kg m-

17. A wire stretched between two rigid supports vibrates in its

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