PERFORMANCE TASK AND WRITTEN WORK 2

If a long spring with spring constant k is cut into 4 equal lengths, what is the spring constant of each
of the 4 shorter springs?

Select one:
a. It is 4k. 
Correct

b. It is k/4.
c. It is k + 4.
d. It is k/16.

e. It is still k.

13.5 Reflection and Scattering of Sound

13.6 The Doppler Effect

A train station bell gives off a fundamental tone of 1000 Hz as the train approaches the station at a
speed of 20.0 m/s. If the speed of sound in air is 335 m/s, what will be the apparent frequency of the
bell to an observer riding the train?

Select one:
a. 943 Hz
b. 940 Hz
c. 1070 Hz
d. 1060 Hz 
Correc

A heat engine operating between a pair of hot and cold reservoirs with respective temperatures of 400
K and 200 K will have what maximum efficiency?

Select one:
a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 40%
d. 50% 
Correct
e. 45%

The superposition principle has to do with which of the following?

Select one:
a. relativistic wave behavior
b. how displacements of interacting waves add together  
Correct

c. the ability of some waves to move very far

d. effects of waves at great distances

What phenomenon is created by two tuning forks, side by side, emitting frequencies, which differ by
only a small amount?

Select one:
a. the Doppler effect
b. beats 
Correct

c. resonance

d. interference

A mass of 4.1 kg, resting on a horizontal frictionless surface, is attached on the right to a horizontal
spring with spring constant 23 N/m and on the left to a horizontal spring with spring constant 60 N/m.
If this system is moved from equilibrium, what is the effective spring constant?

Select one:
a. -83 N/m
b. -37 N/m
c. 18.5 N/m
d. 37 N/m
e. 83 N/m 
Correct
13.3 Standing Sound Waves

Two loudspeakers are placed facing each other and driven by the same source at 680 Hz. A listener is
positioned between the two speakers on the line separating them, thus creating a constructive
interference at the listener's ear. If one of the speakers is gradually pushed toward the listener, how far
must it be moved to repeat the condition of constructive interference at the listener's ear? (The speed
of sound = 340 m/s.)

Select one:
a. 0.50 m 
Correct

b. 1.00 m
c. 0.25 m

d. 0.13 m

A 2.11-kg block of ice is at STP (0°C, 1 atm) while it melts completely to water. What is its change in
entropy? (For ice, Lf = 3.34 × 105 J/kg)

Select one:
a. 1,291 J/K
b. 2,581 J/K 
Correct

c. 5,163 J/K
d. 645 J/K

e. zero

Which is not an example of approximate simple harmonic motion?

Select one:
a. A ball bouncing on the floor. 
Correct

b. A piano string that has been struck.

c. A car's radio antenna as it waves back and forth.
d. A child swinging on a swing.

13.1 Sound Is a Longitudinal Wave

A sound wave coming from a tuba has a wavelength of 0.674 m and travels to your ears at a speed of
345 m/s. What is the frequency of the sound you hear?

Select one:
a. 230 Hz
b. 1/517 Hz
c. 512 Hz 
Correct

d. 1/230 Hz

12.8 Standing Waves

A 100-m long high-voltage cable is suspended between two towers. The mass of the 100-m cable is
200 kg. If the tension in the cable is 20,000 N, what is the lowest frequency at which this cable can
oscillate?

Select one:
a. 0.50 Hz 
Correct

b. 0.75 Hz
c. 0.61 Hz

d. 1.5 Hz

If the frequency of a traveling wave train is increased by a factor of three in a medium where the
speed is constant, which of the following is the result?

Select one:
a. wavelength is tripled
b. wavelength is one third as big 
Correct
c. amplitude is one third as big

d. amplitude is tripled

By what factor should the length of a simple pendulum be changed if the period of vibration were to
be five times?

Select one:
a. 1.0
b. 25 
Correct

c. 0.2
d. 1/25

e. 5

13.1 Sound Is a Longitudinal Wave

The frequency separating audible waves and ultrasonic waves is considered to be 20 kHz. What
wavelength in air at room temperature is associated with this frequency? (Assume the speed of sound
to be 340 m/s.)

Select one:
a. 0.59 cm
b. 55 cm
c. 34 cm
d. 1.7 cm 
Correct

The wavelength of a traveling wave can be calculated if one knows the:

Select one:
a. speed and amplitude.
b. frequency and speed. 
Correct
c. amplitude and frequency.

d. frequency.

12.5 Superposition and Interference

Equal wavelength waves of amplitude 0.25 m and 0.10 m interfere with one another. What is the
resulting minimum amplitude that can result?

Select one:
a. 0 m
b. -0.40 m
c. 0.15 m 
Correct

Which of the following increases the internal energy of a solid metal rod?

Select one:
a. having the rod conduct heat
b. throwing it through the air
c. having the rod absorb heat 
Correct

d. raising it to a greater height