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Quanlity of a source of sound is determined by number of harmonic components present in the sound.
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MODERN PUBLICATION-WAVES-REVISION EXERCISES
  1. Is Doppler effect applicable only to sound waves.

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

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  3. What determines the quality of sound ?

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  4. What is meant by fidelity of instrument ?

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

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

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  7. DOPPLER EFFECT

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

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  9. Doppler effect is applicable for

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  10. According to Newton, when a wave passes through a gas, changes taking ...

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  11. Where should a stretched wire, held between two fixed supports, be plu...

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  12. When a wave coming from a medium where its velocity is………………meets a me...

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

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

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

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

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

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  18. Pitch of the sound appears to…………………………when the source of sound moves ...

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  19. When the observer is at rest and the source moves with a supersonic sp...

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  20. What is a wave function ? Write its general form.

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