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What is the difference between a tone and a note?

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A sound of single frequency is called a tone and a combination of tones of different frequencies is called a note.
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  2. What is the essential condition for the formation of beats?

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  3. What is the difference between a tone and a note?

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  4. Is Doppler effect applicable only to sound waves.

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  5. Why cannot we hear an echo in a small room ?

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  6. What determines the quality of sound ?

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  7. What is meant by fidelity of instrument ?

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  8. On which factor the pitch of the sound depends ?

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  9. Where will a person hear maximum sound, at node or antinode?

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  10. DOPPLER EFFECT

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  11. In a stationary longitudinal wave, nodes are points of

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  12. Doppler effect is applicable for

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  16. During the formation of a stationary wave, the medium is broken into l...

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  17. The second overtone can also be called as ………………………harmonic.

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  18. …………………is a musical instrument in which sound is produced by setting a...

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  19. In an……………………Organ pipe, both odd and even harmonics are present.

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  20. If the prong of a tuning fork is filed, its frequency………………and if it l...

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