HOMEWORK SET 5

1. A wave has crests and troughs. From the top of one crest to the bottom of the next trough is 13 cm. The length from crest to trough along the x axis is 28 cm. Find the a. amplitude and b. wavelength.

2. The speed of surface waves in water decreases as the water becomes more shallow. Imagine water waves crossing the surface of an otherwise calm lake at a speed of v1 = 2.0 m/s, with a wavelength of l1 = 1.5 meters. When these same waves approach shore, the speed decreases to v2 = 1.6 m/s, while the frequency remains the same. Find the wavelength, l2, in the shallow waters.

3. Suppose that you wanted to double the wave speed, from v to 2v, on a tight string. The force that is keeping it tight is called “tension” but it is still a force and has units of Newtons. How much would you have to increase the tension so the velocity would double?

4. Waves on a particular string travel at v1 = 16 m/s. To double that speed to v2 = 32 m/s, how much would you have to increase the tension?

5. Write an expression for a harmonic wave, such that amplitude, A = 0.16 m, wavelength l = 2.1 m, and period of P = 1.8 seconds.

6. A soundwave in air has a frequency of n1 = 425 Hz.
a. Find its wavelength
b. If its frequency is increased, does the wavelength increase, decrease, or remain unchanged
c. Calculate its wavelength if the frequency is n2 = 475 Hz.

7. A man throws a rock down to the bottom of a well. From the instant that it leaves his hand until the moment he hears the rock hit bottom, a period of 1.20 seconds passes. The depth of the well is 8.85 meters. Find the initial speed, vi, of the rock (the instant that it leaves the man's hand).

8. Twenty identical violins are being played by 20 identical violinists at the same identical volume, for an aggregate sound level of 82.5 dB.
a. Find the dB level of one of the violins.
b. Find the dB level of twice as many identical violins (40).

9. Find the weight (in Newtons) of the air in your physics class. Assume that the room is a cube of 4 meters on a side, and that the density of air is rair = 1.29 kg/m3.

10. You buy a gold ring at a pawn shop, and run a “test” to determine if it's pure gold. The ring's mass is m = 0.014 grams, and has a volume of 0.022 cm3. The density of gold is rAu = 19.3 kg/m3.

11. Crutches will often have rubber tips at the bottom, so that contact with a flooring surface will decrease scratching of the floor, increase friction, and its broader tip spreads the pressure out over a larger area. Assume the radius of the tip of the cane to be 1.2 cm, and that the radius of the rubber tip is 2.5 cm. What is the ratio of the pressure of the cane alone, P1, to the pressure with the rubber tip, P2: P1/P2.

12. Two drinking glasses, G1 and G2, are filled with water to the same level of 5.0 cm. The diameter of the base of G1 is twice the diameter of the base of G2, but otherwise the two glasses are identical.
a. Is the weight of the water in G1 greater, less, or the same as weight in G2?
b. Is the water pressure at the bottom of G1 greater, less, or the same as the water pressure at the bottom of G2?

13. On Wednesday, August 15, 1934, William Beebe and Otis Barton made history by descending in the Bathysphere, a steel sphere 4.75 feet in diameter, to 3028 feet below sea level.
a. as the Bathysphere was lowered, was the buoyant force exerted on it at a depth of 10 feet greater, less, or equal to it at 50 feet?
b. Choose the best explanation from below.
I Magic
II Miracle
III Mayonnaise.

14. A fish called Wanda is carrying a pebble in its mouth swims with a small constant velocity in a small bowl. When the fish drops the pebble to the bottom of the bowl, does the water level rise, fall or stay the same?

15. Explain what a a hydrometer is.

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