Home
Class 11
PHYSICS
Is it necessary for production of beats ...

Is it necessary for production of beats that the two waves must have exactly equal amplitudes?

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

No. It is not at all necessary. However, the beats become more distinct when the amplitude of two waves are exactly equal.
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES

    PRADEEP|Exercise Long Answer Questions|33 Videos

  • OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES

    PRADEEP|Exercise Advanced Problems For Competitions|20 Videos

  • OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES

    PRADEEP|Exercise Very Short Answer Questions|99 Videos

  • MATHEMATICAL TOOLS

    PRADEEP|Exercise Fill in the blanks|5 Videos

  • PHYSICAL WORLD AND MEASUREMENT

    PRADEEP|Exercise Competiton Focus Jee Medical Entrance|18 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

The cause of beats is that the two waves undergo

In the production of beats by two waves of same amplitude and nearly same frequency, the maximum intensity to each of the constituent waves is

Production Of Amplitude Modulated Wave

The amplitude factor of resulting wave, formed by superposition of two sinusoidal waves of equal amplitude a and constant phase difference is given by

Distinguish between conditions for the production of stationary waves and beats.

A particle is subjected to two simple hasrmonic motions in the same direction having equal amplitudes and equal frequency. If the resultant amplitude is equal to the amplitude of the individual motions, find the phase difference between the individual motions.

A particle is subjected to two simple harmonic motions in the same direction having equal amplitudes and equal frequency. If the resulting amplitude is equal to the amplitude of individual motions, the phase difference between them is

PRADEEP-OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES-Short Answer Questions
  1. What would a person hear, if he moves away from a source of sound with...

    Text Solution

    |

  2. Can beats be observed in two light sources of nearly equal frequencies...

    Text Solution

    |

  3. Is it necessary for production of beats that the two waves must have e...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. Two sources of sound having frequencies 450Hz and 400Hz are sounded to...

    Text Solution

    |

  5. Is Doppler effect applicablel only to sound waves.

    Text Solution

    |

  6. What physical change occurs when a source of sound moves and listener ...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. What physical change occurs when source of sound waves is at rest and ...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. A person riding on a merry go round emits a sound wave of a certain fr...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. Will there be any Doppler whift when source and listener move in the s...

    Text Solution

    |

  10. A sitar wire and a tabla, when sounded together, produce 5 beats per s...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. What is wave function ? Give general form of wave function. What is a ...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. Briefly discuss how phase of a wave motion changes with position and t...

    Text Solution

    |

  13. Why should two sources of sound have nearly equal frequencies for the ...

    Text Solution

    |

  14. Why does a dispersive medium distort a wave pulse?

    Text Solution

    |

  15. Which factors determine the frequency of a tuning fork ?

    Text Solution

    |

  16. Distinguish between harmonics and overtones.

    Text Solution

    |

  17. Find the time period of mass M when displaced from its equilibrium pos...

    Text Solution

    |

  18. Show that the motino of a particle represented by y=sinomegat-cosomega...

    Text Solution

    |

  19. Find the displacement of a simple harmonic oscillator at which its P.E...

    Text Solution

    |

  20. A body of mass m is situated in a potential field U(x)=U(0)(1-cosalpha...

    Text Solution

    |