Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics

4th Edition

ISBN: 9780136139225

Author: Douglas C. Giancoli

Publisher: Prentice Hall

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Chapter 15, Problem 76GP

A guitar string is supposed to vibrate at 247 Hz, but is measured to actually vibrate at 255 Hz. By what percentage should the tension in the string he changed to get the frequency to the correct value?

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Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics

Ch. 15.1 - Prob. 1AE Ch. 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. 1Q Ch. 15 - Explain the difference between the speed of a...Ch. 15 - Prob. 3Q Ch. 15 - What kind of waves do you think will travel down a...Ch. 15 - Prob. 5Q Ch. 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. 9Q Ch. 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. 14Q Ch. 15 - When a standing wave exists on a string, the...Ch. 15 - Prob. 16Q Ch. 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. 19Q Ch. 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. 10P Ch. 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. 15P Ch. 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. 23P Ch. 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. 33P Ch. 15 - (II) Let two linear waves be represented by D1 =...Ch. 15 - Prob. 35P Ch. 15 - Prob. 36P Ch. 15 - (II) A cord has two sections with linear densities...Ch. 15 - Prob. 38P Ch. 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. 42P Ch. 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. 45P Ch. 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. 54P Ch. 15 - Prob. 55P Ch. 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. 60P Ch. 15 - Prob. 61P Ch. 15 - (II) A 65-cm guitar string is fixed at both ends....Ch. 15 - (II) Two oppositely directed traveling waves given...Ch. 15 - Prob. 64P Ch. 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. 69P Ch. 15 - (II) A satellite dish is about 0.5 m in diameter....Ch. 15 - Prob. 71GP Ch. 15 - Prob. 72GP Ch. 15 - Prob. 73GP Ch. 15 - Prob. 74GP Ch. 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. 77GP Ch. 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. 85GP Ch. 15 - A highway overpass was observed to resonate as one...Ch. 15 - Prob. 87GP Ch. 15 - Estimate the average power of a water wave when it...Ch. 15 - Prob. 89GP Ch. 15 - Two wave pulses are traveling in opposite...Ch. 15 - Prob. 91GP Ch. 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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