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Travelling Sine Wave MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

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  • Sine wave travelling on string is considered one the most difficult concept.

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The equation of the wave is given by $y=0.5 \sin (100 t+25 x)$. The ratio of maximum particle velocity to wave velocity is

The equation of SHM is given by $y(x, t)=a_o \sin 2 \pi\left(v t-\frac{x}{\lambda}\right)$. If the maximum particle velocity is three times the wave velocity, the wavelength $\lambda$ of the wave is :

  A transverse wave is represented by

$y=\frac{10}{\pi} \sin \left(\frac{2 \pi}{T} t-\frac{2 \pi}{\lambda} x\right)$

For what value of the wavelength the wave velocity is twice the maximum particle velocity ?

The equation of traveling wave on a stretched string of linear density 5g/m is $y=0.003 \sin (450 t-9 x)$ where distance and time are measured in SI units. The tension in the string is: ( in newtons)

A transverse wave is represented by $y=A \sin (\omega t-k x)$. For what value of the wavelength is the wave velocity equal to the maximum particle velocity?

At $\mathrm{t}=0$, a transverse wave pulse travelling in $+\mathrm{ve} x$-direction, with speed of $\frac{2}{3} \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}$ by the function $y=\frac{6}{x^2}$ , $x \neq 0$. Transverse velocity of the particle at $\mathrm{x}=2 \mathrm{~m}$ and $\mathrm{t}=2 \mathrm{~s}$ is:

In a sine wave minimum distance between two particles having the same speed is always,

 

 

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A plane progressive wave is given by $y=2 \cos 2 \pi(330 t-x)$. What is the period of the wave?

For the transverse wave equation, $y=A \sin (\pi x+\pi t)$, choose the correct option at t=0.

 

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A transverse sinusoidal wave of amplitude $a$, wavelength $\lambda$ and frequency $n$ is travelling on a stretched string. The maximum speed of the particle is $\frac{1}{10} t h$ of the speed of propagation of the wave. If $a=10^{-3} \mathrm{~m}$ and $V=10 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}$, then $\lambda$ are given by -

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Sine wave travelling on string

The sine wave or sinusoid is a mathematical function that describes a smooth repetitive oscillation.

$$
y(t)=A \sin (\omega t+\phi)
$$


Here $\omega$, is the angular frequency i.e,

$$
\omega=\frac{2 \pi}{T}=2 \pi f_{\text {It defines how many cycles of the oscillations are there. }}
$$

and $\phi=$ phase angle

General form:

a spatial variable x that represents the position on the dimension on which the wave propagates, and a characteristic parameter k called wave number which represents the proportionality between the angular frequency ω and the linear speed (speed of propagation ) ν. which is 

$y(x, t)=A \sin (k x-\omega t+\phi)$ when the wave is moving towards the right
$y(x, t)=A \sin (k x+\omega t+\phi)$ when the wave is moving towards the left.
The wavenumber is related to the angular frequency by:

$$
k=\frac{\omega}{v}=\frac{2 \pi f}{v}=\frac{2 \pi}{\lambda}
$$


Also,

$$
\begin{aligned}
& \text { Particle velocity }=-(\text { wave velocity }) \times(\text { slope of } y \text { vs } \times \text { graph }) \\
& \Longrightarrow V_p=-v\left(\frac{\partial y}{\partial x}\right) \\
& \Longrightarrow \frac{\partial y}{\partial t}=-v\left(\frac{\partial y}{\partial x}\right)
\end{aligned}
$$
 

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