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Questions:
160:  When standing waves are "flat."
165:  Fundamental frequency and wavelength.
170:  Displacement-pressure waves.
 
 

Question 160.  The time that elapses between any two successive instances where a standing sinusoidal wave on a string looks "flat" is

a) one period
b) 1/2 a period
c) 1/4 period
d) 1/4 or 3/4 period
e) always 2.589935 seconds, never more, never less.

Fundamentals of Sound reference: Sec. 2-A.
 
 
 
 
 

Question 165.  In a problem, if you have a way of computing a value for the fundamental frequency, f₀, and the fundamental wavelength,₀, for a sinusoidal standing wave on a string or an air column, then you can compute the value of any f (e.g., the ninth harmonic) or any  (e.g., the wavelength of the twenty-third harmonic) for the higher harmonics. (Does the answer depend on boundary conditions?)

a) True
b) False

Fundamentals of Sound reference: Table III-1.
 
 
 

Question 170:  An air column with one end open and one end closed is vibrating in its first mode.  At a particular instant in time, the air molecules are distributed as in the picture below.  Which is the correct pair of displacement-pressure waves corresponding to this instant in time?

A)   B)   C)   D)
 

Fundamentals of Sound reference: Sec. 3-D.
 
 
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