Check Your Understanding !!!

Briefly explain the questions with diagram:

1An automatic focus camera is able to focus on objec. ts by use of an

ultrasonic sound wave. The camera sends out sound waves which reflect
off distant objects and return to the camera. A sensor detects the time it
takes for the waves to return and then determines the distance an object
is from the camera. If a sound wave (speed = 340 m/s) returns to the
camera 0.150 seconds after leaving the camera, is the distance travelled
by the sound wave faster or slower than the actual speed of sound. Yes or
No. Explain.

• 2. On a hot summer day, a pesky little mosquito produced its

warning sound near your ear. The sound is produced by the beating
of its wings at a rate of about 600 wing beats per second. Will the
frequency increase or decrease? Why? Explain

• 3. Doubling the frequency of a wave source doubles the speed of the

waves? Why? Explain your answer.

• 4. Playing middle C on the piano keyboard produces a sound with a

frequency of 256 Hz. Assuming the speed of sound in air
corresponding to the note of middle C. Describe by illustration the
length of the wave.

• 5. Most people can detect frequencies as high as 20 000 Hz.

Assuming the speed of sound in air is 345 m/s is doubled, what
would happen to the frequency and wavelength of the sound
corresponding to this upper range of audible hearing

• 6. How do sounds travel?

7. How do we detect Sounds?

• 8. A sound wave is different than a light wave in that a sound

wave is__________

• a. produced by an oscillating object and a light wave is not.

• b. not capable of traveling through a vacuum.

• c. not capable of diffracting and a light wave is.

• d. capable of existing with a variety of frequencies and a light wave

has a single frequency.

• 9-10 – Answer briefly and neatly.

Two in-phase loudspeakers are 2.55 m apart. They emit sound with a
frequency of 370.0 Hz. A microphone is placed half-way between the
speakers and then moved along the line joining the two speakers until the
first point of constructive interference is found. At what distance from
that midpoint is that first point? The speed of sound in air is 340 m/s

• ENUMERATION:

• 1 – 3 What are factors that affect the speed of sound?

• 4 - 8 Identify different media where sound travels and compare

two of them.

• 9 – 10 Differentiate speed of sound wave in speed of light by giving

example.