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Organ pipes and resonance
- Main 2022PhysicsInteger
The first overtone frequency of an open organ pipe is equal to the fundamental frequency of a closed organ pipe. If the length of the closed organ pipe is 20 cm. The length of the open organ pipe is ______ cm.
- Main 2022PhysicsInteger
A tunning fork of frequency 340 Hz resonates in the fundamental mode with an air column of length 125 cm in a cylindrical tube closed at one end. When water is slowly poured in it, the minimum height of water required for observing resonance once again is ______ cm.
(Velocity of sound in air is 340 ms)
- Main 2022PhysicsInteger
In an experiment to determine the velocity of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube, the first resonance is observed when the air column has a length of 20.0 cm for a tuning fork of frequency 400 Hz is used. The velocity of the sound at room temperature is 336 ms. The third resonance is observed when the air column has a length of ______ cm
- Advanced 2021PhysicsMultiple correct
A source, approaching with speed towards the open end of a stationary pipe of length , is emitting a sound of frequency . The farther end of the pipe is closed. The speed of sound in air is and is the fundamental frequency of the pipe. For which of the following combination(s) of and , will the sound reaching the pipe lead to a resonance?
- Advanced 2020PhysicsNumerical
A stationary tuning fork is in resonance with an air column in a pipe. If the tuning fork is moved with a speed of in front of the open end of the pipe and parallel to it, the length of the pipe should be changed for the resonance to occur with the moving tuning fork. If the speed of sound in air is , the smallest value of the percentage change required in the length of the pipe is ______.
- Advanced 2018PhysicsMultiple correct
In an experiment to measure the speed of sound by a resonating air column, a tuning fork of frequency 500 Hz is used. The length of the air column is varied by changing the level of water in the resonance tube. Two successive resonances are heard at air columns of length 50.7 cm and 83.9 cm. Which of the following statements is (are) true?
- Main 2016PhysicsSingle correct
A pipe open at both ends has a fundamental frequency in air. The pipe is dipped vertically in water so that half of it is in water. The fundamental frequency of the air column is now :
- Advanced 2014PhysicsMultiple correct
A student is performing an experiment using a resonance column and a tuning fork of frequency . He is told that the air in the tube has been replaced by another gas (assume that the column remains filled with the gas). If the minimum height at which resonance occurs is m, the gas in the tube is
(Useful information: ; . The molar masses in grams are given in the options. Take the values of for each gas as given there.)
- Main 2014PhysicsSingle correct
A pipe of length 85 cm is closed from one end. Find the number of possible natural oscillations of air column in the pipe whose frequencies lie below 1250 Hz. The velocity of sound in air is 340 m/s.
- Advanced 2012PhysicsMultiple correct
A person blows into open-end of a long pipe. As a result, a high-pressure pulse of air travels down the pipe. When this pulse reaches the other end of the pipe,
- Advanced 2012PhysicsSingle correct
A student is performing the experiment of Resonance Column. The diameter of the column tube is 4 cm. The frequency of the tuning fork is 512 Hz. The air temperature is 38 °C in which the speed of sound is 336 m/s. The zero of the meter scale coincides with the top end of the Resonance Column tube. When the first resonance occurs, the reading of the water level in the column is
- Advanced 2011PhysicsMatrix match
Column I shows four systems, each of the same length L, for producing standing waves. The lowest possible natural frequency of a system is called its fundamental frequency, whose wavelength is denoted as . Match each system with statements given in Column II describing the nature and wavelength of the standing waves.
- Advanced 2010PhysicsSingle correct
A hollow pipe of length 0.8 m is closed at one end. At its open end a 0.5 m long uniform string is vibrating in its second harmonic and it resonates with the fundamental frequency of the pipe. If the tension in the wire is 50 N and the speed of sound is 320 m s⁻¹, the mass of the string is
- Advanced 2009PhysicsMultiple correct
A student performed the experiment to measure the speed of sound in air using resonance air-column method. Two resonances in the air-column were obtained by lowering the water level. The resonance with the shorter air-column is the first resonance and that with the longer air-column is the second resonance. Then,
- Advanced 2008PhysicsSingle correct
A vibrating string of certain length under a tension T resonates with a mode corresponding to the first overtone (third harmonic) of an air column of length 75 cm inside a tube closed at one end. The string also generates 4 beats per second when excited along with a tuning fork of frequency . Now when the tension of the string is slightly increased the number of beats reduces to 2 per second. Assuming the velocity of sound in air to be 340 m/s, the frequency of the tuning fork in Hz is