Physics for Science and Engineering With Modern Physics, VI - Student Study Guide
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Chapter 15, Problem 64P
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Physics for Science and Engineering With Modern Physics, VI - Student Study Guide
Ch. 15.1 - Prob. 1AECh. 15.1 - You notice a water Wave pass by the end of a pier...Ch. 15.2 - A wave starts at the left end of a long cord (see...Ch. 15.4 - A wave is given by D(x, t) = (5.0 mm) sin(2.0x ...Ch. 15 - Prob. 1QCh. 15 - Explain the difference between the speed of a...Ch. 15 - Prob. 3QCh. 15 - What kind of waves do you think will travel down a...Ch. 15 - Prob. 5QCh. 15 - Prob. 6Q
Ch. 15 - The speed of sound in most solids is somewhat...Ch. 15 - Give two reasons why circular water waves decrease...Ch. 15 - Prob. 9QCh. 15 - Will any function of (x t)see Eq. 1514represent a...Ch. 15 - When a sinusoidal wave crosses the boundary...Ch. 15 - If a sinusoidal wave on a two-section cord (Fig....Ch. 15 - Is energy always conserved when two waves...Ch. 15 - Prob. 14QCh. 15 - When a standing wave exists on a string, the...Ch. 15 - Prob. 16QCh. 15 - When a cord is vibrated as in Fig. 1525 by hand or...Ch. 15 - AM radio signals can usually be heard behind a...Ch. 15 - Prob. 19QCh. 15 - (I) A fisherman notices that wave crests pass the...Ch. 15 - (I) A sound wave in air has a frequency of 262 Hz...Ch. 15 - (I) Calculate the speed of longitudinal waves in...Ch. 15 - (1) AM radio signals have frequencies between 550...Ch. 15 - (I) Determine the wavelength of a 5800-Hz sound...Ch. 15 - (II) A cord of mass 0.65 kg is stretched between...Ch. 15 - (II) A 0.40-kg cord is stretched between two...Ch. 15 - (II) A sailor strikes the side of his ship just...Ch. 15 - (II) A ski gondola is connected to the top of a...Ch. 15 - Prob. 10PCh. 15 - (II) The wave on a string shown in Fig. 1533 is...Ch. 15 - (II) A 5.0kg ball hangs from a steel wire 1.00 mm...Ch. 15 - (II) Two children are sending signals along a cord...Ch. 15 - (II) Dimensional analysis. Waves on the surface of...Ch. 15 - Prob. 15PCh. 15 - (II) What is the ratio of (a) the intensities, and...Ch. 15 - (II) Show that if damping is ignored, the...Ch. 15 - (II) The intensity of an earthquake wave passing...Ch. 15 - (II) A small steel wire of diameter 1.0 mm is...Ch. 15 - (II) Show that the intensity of a wave is equal to...Ch. 15 - (II) (a) Show that the average rate with which...Ch. 15 - (I) A transverse wave on a wire is given by D(x,...Ch. 15 - Prob. 23PCh. 15 - (II) A transverse traveling wave on a cord is...Ch. 15 - (II) Consider the point x = 1.00 m on the cord of...Ch. 15 - (II) A transverse wave on a cord is given by D(x,...Ch. 15 - (II) A transverse wave pulse travels to the right...Ch. 15 - (II) A 524-Hz longitudinal wave in air has a speed...Ch. 15 - (II) Write the equation for the wave in Problem 28...Ch. 15 - (II) A sinusoidal wave traveling on a string in...Ch. 15 - (II) Determine if the function D = A sin k x cos t...Ch. 15 - (II) Show by direct substitution that the...Ch. 15 - Prob. 33PCh. 15 - (II) Let two linear waves be represented by D1 =...Ch. 15 - Prob. 35PCh. 15 - Prob. 36PCh. 15 - (II) A cord has two sections with linear densities...Ch. 15 - Prob. 38PCh. 15 - (II) Seismic reflection prospecting is commonly...Ch. 15 - (III) A cord stretched to a tension FT consists of...Ch. 15 - (I) The two pulses shown in Fig. 1536 are moving...Ch. 15 - Prob. 42PCh. 15 - (I) A violin siring vibrates at 441 Hz when...Ch. 15 - (I) If a violin string vibrates at 294 Hz as its...Ch. 15 - Prob. 45PCh. 15 - (I) A particular string resonates in four loops at...Ch. 15 - (II) A cord of length 1.0 m has two equal-length...Ch. 15 - (II) The velocity of waves on a string is 96 m/s....Ch. 15 - (II) If two successive harmonics of a vibrating...Ch. 15 - (II) A guitar string is 90.0 cm long and has a...Ch. 15 - (II) Show that the frequency of standing waves on...Ch. 15 - (II) One end of a horizontal string of linear...Ch. 15 - (II) In Problem 52, Fig. 1537, the length of the...Ch. 15 - Prob. 54PCh. 15 - Prob. 55PCh. 15 - (II) When you slosh the water back and forth in a...Ch. 15 - (II) A particular violin string plays at a...Ch. 15 - (II) Two traveling waves are described by the...Ch. 15 - (II) Plot the two waves given in Problem 58 and...Ch. 15 - Prob. 60PCh. 15 - Prob. 61PCh. 15 - (II) A 65-cm guitar string is fixed at both ends....Ch. 15 - (II) Two oppositely directed traveling waves given...Ch. 15 - Prob. 64PCh. 15 - (I) An earthquake P wave traveling 8.0 km/s...Ch. 15 - (I) Water waves approach an underwater shelf where...Ch. 15 - (II) A sound wave is traveling in warm air (25C)...Ch. 15 - (II) Any type of wave that reaches a boundary...Ch. 15 - Prob. 69PCh. 15 - (II) A satellite dish is about 0.5 m in diameter....Ch. 15 - Prob. 71GPCh. 15 - Prob. 72GPCh. 15 - Prob. 73GPCh. 15 - Prob. 74GPCh. 15 - A bug on the surface of a pond is observed to move...Ch. 15 - A guitar string is supposed to vibrate at 247 Hz,...Ch. 15 - Prob. 77GPCh. 15 - A uniform cord of length l and mass m is hung...Ch. 15 - A transverse wave pulse travels to the right along...Ch. 15 - (a) Show that if the tension in a stretched string...Ch. 15 - Two strings on a musical instrument are tuned to...Ch. 15 - The ripples in a certain groove 10.8 cm from the...Ch. 15 - A 10.0-m-long wire of mass 152g is stretched under...Ch. 15 - A wave with a frequency of 220 Hz and a wavelength...Ch. 15 - Prob. 85GPCh. 15 - A highway overpass was observed to resonate as one...Ch. 15 - Prob. 87GPCh. 15 - Estimate the average power of a water wave when it...Ch. 15 - Prob. 89GPCh. 15 - Two wave pulses are traveling in opposite...Ch. 15 - Prob. 91GPCh. 15 - What frequency of sound would have a wavelength...Ch. 15 - (II) Consider a wave generated by the periodic...Ch. 15 - (II) The displacement of a bell-shaped wave pulse...
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