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Chapter 16, Problem 45P

Musicians can use beats to tune their instruments. One flute is properly tuned and plays the musical note A at exactly 440 Hz. A second player sounds the same note and hears that her instrument is slightly “flat” (that is, at too low a frequency). Playing at the same time as the first flute, she hears two loud-soft-loud beats per second. What is the frequency of her instrument?

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Ch. 16 - When you speak after breathing helium, in which...Ch. 16 - Prob. 14CQ Ch. 16 - A synthesizer is a keyboard instrument that can be...Ch. 16 - A small boy and a grown woman both speak at...Ch. 16 - Prob. 18MCQ Ch. 16 - At x = 3 cm, what is the earliest time that y will...Ch. 16 - Prob. 20MCQ Ch. 16 - Prob. 21MCQ Ch. 16 - A student in her physics lab measures the...Ch. 16 - Prob. 23MCQ Ch. 16 - Resonances of the ear canal lead to increased...Ch. 16 - The frequency of the lowest standing-wave mode on...Ch. 16 - Suppose you pluck a string on a guitar and it...Ch. 16 - Figure P16.11 is a snapshot graph at t = 0 s of...Ch. 16 - Prob. 2P Ch. 16 - Prob. 3P Ch. 16 - Prob. 4P Ch. 16 - Prob. 5P Ch. 16 - Prob. 6P Ch. 16 - At t = 0 s, a small upward (positive y) pulse...Ch. 16 - You are holding one end of an elastic cord that is...Ch. 16 - A 2.0-m-long string is fixed at both ends and...Ch. 16 - Figure P16.10 shows a standing wave oscillating at...Ch. 16 - A bass guitar string is 89 cm long with a...Ch. 16 - Prob. 12P Ch. 16 - a. What are the three longest wavelengths for...Ch. 16 - Prob. 14P Ch. 16 - Prob. 15P Ch. 16 - Prob. 16P Ch. 16 - The lowest note on a grand piano has a frequency...Ch. 16 - An experimenter finds that standing waves on a...Ch. 16 - Ocean waves of wavelength 26 m are moving directly...Ch. 16 - Prob. 20P Ch. 16 - Prob. 21P Ch. 16 - Prob. 22P Ch. 16 - Prob. 23P Ch. 16 - An organ pipe is made to play a low note at 27.5...Ch. 16 - The speed of sound in room temperature (20C) air...Ch. 16 - Parasaurolophus was a dinosaur whose...Ch. 16 - A drainage pipe running under a freeway is 30.0 m...Ch. 16 - Prob. 28P Ch. 16 - Although the vocal tract is quite complicated, we...Ch. 16 - You know that you sound better when you sing in...Ch. 16 - A child has an ear canal that is 1.3 cm long. At...Ch. 16 - When a sound wave travels directly toward a hard...Ch. 16 - The first formant of your vocal system can be...Ch. 16 - When you voice the vowel sound in hat, you narrow...Ch. 16 - The first and second formants when you make an ee...Ch. 16 - Two loudspeakers emit sound waves along the...Ch. 16 - Two loudspeakers in a 20C room emit 686 Hz sound...Ch. 16 - In noisy factory environments, its possible to use...Ch. 16 - Two identical loudspeakers separated by distance d...Ch. 16 - Prob. 42P Ch. 16 - Two identical loudspeakers 2.0 m apart are...Ch. 16 - Prob. 44P Ch. 16 - Musicians can use beats to tune their instruments....Ch. 16 - A student waiting at a stoplight notices that her...Ch. 16 - Two strings are adjusted to vibrate at exactly 200...Ch. 16 - A flute player hears four beats per second when...Ch. 16 - Prob. 50GP Ch. 16 - In addition to producing images, ultrasound can be...Ch. 16 - An 80-cm-long steel string with a linear density...Ch. 16 - Tendons are, essentially, elastic cords stretched...Ch. 16 - Spiders may tune strands of their webs to give...Ch. 16 - Prob. 56GP Ch. 16 - Prob. 57GP Ch. 16 - Prob. 58GP Ch. 16 - Prob. 60GP Ch. 16 - A 40-cm-long tube has a 40-cm-long insert that can...Ch. 16 - The width of a particular microwave oven is...Ch. 16 - Two loudspeakers located along the x-axis as shown...Ch. 16 - Two loudspeakers 42.0 m apart and facing each...Ch. 16 - Prob. 65GP Ch. 16 - Two loudspeakers, 4.0 m apart and facing each...Ch. 16 - Piano tuners tune pianos by listening to the beats...Ch. 16 - A flutist assembles her flute in a room where the...Ch. 16 - Prob. 69GP Ch. 16 - A Doppler blood flowmeter emits ultrasound at a...Ch. 16 - An ultrasound unit is being used to measure a...Ch. 16 - Prob. 72MSPP Ch. 16 - Prob. 73MSPP Ch. 16 - Prob. 74MSPP Ch. 16 - Prob. 75MSPP

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