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course phys 202

015. `Query 13

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Question: `qquery experiment to be viewed and read but not performed: transverse and longitudinal waves in aluminum

rod

`what is the evidence that the higher-pitched waves are longitudinal while the lower-pitched waves are transverse?

Your Solution:

When the aluminum rod is struck on the side the lower pitched waves are louder suggesting that the longitudinal waves

are producing this pitch. By striking the rod on the side the aluminum vibrates from side to side in a transverse manner.

When the rod is struck directly on the end the high pitched waves are much louder suggesting longitudinal waves caused

by vibrating the rod from end to end produce this pitch.

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Given Solution: `qSTUDENT RESPONSE: The logitudinal waves had a higher velocity.

That doesn't provide evidence that the high-pitched wave was longitudinal, since we didn't directly measure the velocity of

those waves. The higher-pitches waves were damped out much more rapidly by touching the very end of the rod, along

its central axis, than by touching the rod at the end but on the side.

The frequency with which pulses arrive at the ear determines the pitch.

The amplitude of the wave affects its intensity, or energy per unit area. For a given pitch the energy falling per unit area is

proportional to the square of the amplitude.

Intensity is also proportional to the square of the frequency. **

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Self-critique (if necessary): I should have included that the ear determines these pitches based on the frequency of the

pulses, and that the amplitude of the wave has an effect on intensity. The intensity is also proportional to the square of the

frequency.

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Self-critique Rating: 3

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Question: `qquery General College Physics and Principles of Physics 12.08: Compare the intensity of sound at 120 dB

with that of a whisper at 20 dB.

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Your solution:

Beta = 10 log (I/I0)

120 dB = 10 log (I/1*10^-12 W/m^2)

I = 1 W/m^2

20 dB = 10 log (I/1*10^-12 W/m^2)

I = 1 * 10 ^ -10 W/m^2

1 W/m^2 / 1 * 10 ^ -10 W/m^2 = 1* 10 ^10 difference in intensity

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Given Solution:

`aThe intensity at 120 dB is found by solving the equation dB = 10 log(I / I_threshold) for I.

We get

log(I / I_threshold) = dB / 10, so that

I / I_threshold = 10^(120 / 10) = 12and

I = I_threshold * 10^12.

Since I_threshold = 10^-12 watts / m^2, we have for dB = 120:

I = 10^-12 watts / m^2 * 10^12 = 1 watt / m^2.

The same process tells us that for dB = 20 watts, I = I_threshold * 10^(20 / 10) = 10^-12 watts / m^2 * 10^2 =

10^-10 watts / m^2.

Dividing 1 watt / m^2 by 10^-10 watts / m^2, we find that the 120 dB sound is 10^10 times as intense, or 10 billion

times as intense.

A more elegant solution uses the fact that dB_1 - dB_2 = 10 log(I_1 / I_threshold) - ( 10 log(I_2 / I_threshold) )

= 10 log(I_1 / I_threshold) - ( 10 log(I_2 / I_threshold) )

= 10 {log(I_1) - log( I_threshold) - [ ( log(I_2) - log(I_threshold) ]}

= 10 { log(I_1) - log(I_2)}

= 10 log(I_1 / I_2).

So we have

120 - 20 = 100 = 10 log(I_1 / I_2) and

log(I_1 / I_2) = 100 / 10 = 10 so that

I_1 / I_2 = 10^10.

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Self-critique (if necessary): OK

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Self-critique Rating: OK

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Question: `qquery gen phy 12.30 length of open pipe, 262 Hz at 21 C? **** gen phy What is the length of the pipe?

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Your solution:

V = (331 + 0.6 T) m/s

V = (331 + 0.6*21) m/s = 343.6 m/s

f = nv/2L

262 Hz = 343.6 m/s / 2L

L = 0.656 m

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Given Solution:

`aGOOD STUDENT SOLUTION

First we must determine the velocity of the sound waves given the air temperature. We do this using this formula

v = (331 + 0.60 * Temp.) m/s

So v = (331 + 0.60 * 21) m/s

v = 343.6 m/s

The wavelength of the sound is

wavelength = v / f = 343.6 m/s / (262 Hz) = 0.33 meters.

So 262 Hz = 343.6 m/s / 4 * Length

Length = 0.33 meters

f = v / (wavelength)

262 Hz = [343 m/s] / (wavelength)

wavelength = 1.3 m.

So the wavelength is 1.3 m. If it's an open pipe then there are antinodes at the ends and the wavelength is 2 times the

length, so length of the the pipe is about 1.3 m / 2 = .64 m, approx..

Had the pipe been closed at one end then there would be a node and one end and an antinode at the other and the

wavelength of the fundamental would have therefore been 4 times the length; the length of the pipe would then have been

1.3 m / 4 = .32 m. **

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Self-critique (if necessary): OK

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Self-critique Rating: OK

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Question: `q**** Univ phy 16.72 (10th edition 21.32): Crab nebula 1054 A.D.;, H gas, 4.568 * 10^14 Hz in lab,

4.586 from Crab streamers coming toward Earth. Velocity? Assuming const vel diameter? Ang diameter 5 arc

minutes; how far is it?

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Question: `q **** query univ phy 16.66 (21.26 10th edition). 200 mHz refl from fetal heart wall moving toward sound;

refl sound mixed with transmitted sound, 85 beats / sec. Speed of sound 1500 m/s.

What is the speed of the fetal heart at the instant the measurement is made?

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