Exam

Name___________________________________

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) A wiggle in time is a 1) _______
A) vibration. B) wave. C) both D) neither

2) Which of the following is not a transverse wave? 2) _______

A) radio
B) sound
C) light
D) all of these
E) none of these

3) The vibrations of a transverse wave move in a direction 3) _______

A) at right angles to the direction of wave travel.
B) that changes with speed.
C) along the direction of wave travel.

4) The vibrations of a longitudinal wave move in a direction 4) _______

A) that changes with speed.
B) at right angles to the direction of wave travel.
C) along the direction of wave travel.

5) Radio waves travel at the speed of light, 300,000 km/s. The wavelength of a radio wave received at 100 megahertz is
5) _______

A) 3.0 m.
B) 300 m.
C) 0.3 m.
D) 30 m.
E) none of these

6) If the frequency of a certain wave is 10 hertz, its period is 6) _______

A) 100 seconds. B) 0.1 second.
C) 10 seconds. D) None of the above choices are correct.

7) A 60-vibration-per-second wave travels 30 meters in 1 second. Its frequency is 7) _______

A) 1800 hertz and it travels at 2 m/s.
B) 30 hertz and it travels at 60 m/s.
C) 60 hertz and it travels at 30 m/s.

8) An object that completes 20 vibrations in 10 seconds has a frequency of 8) _______

A) 2 hertz. B) 0.5 hertz. C) 1 hertz. D) 200 hertz.

9) A standing wave occurs when 9) _______

A) the amplitude of a wave exceeds its wavelength.
B) two waves overlap.
C) the speed of the wave is zero or near zero.
D) a wave reflects upon itself.

10) A wave travels an average distance of 6 meters in one second. What is the wave's velocity? 10) ______
A) less than 0.2 m/s
B) more than 6 m/s
C) 6 m/s
D) 3 m/s
E) 1 m/s

11) If you double the frequency of a vibrating object, its period 11) ______
A) is quartered. B) doubles. C) halves.

12) A floating object oscillates up and down 2 complete cycles in 1 second as a water wave of wavelength 5 meters passes
by. The speed of the wave is 12) ______

A) 10 m/s.
B) 2 m/s.
C) 15 m/s.
D) 5 m/s.
E) none of these

13) The approximate range of human hearing is 13) ______

A) 40 hertz to 40,000 hertz.
B) 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz.
C) 10 hertz to 10,000 hertz.
D) Actually all of these – depends on the hearing ability of the person.

14) A sound wave is a 14) ______

A) shock wave.
B) standing wave.
C) longitudinal wave.
D) transverse wave.
E) None of the above choices are correct.

15) Compressions and rarefactions are characteristic of 15) ______

A) transverse waves. B) longitudinal waves.
C) both longitudinal and transverse waves. D) none of the above.

16) Compressions and rarefactions normally travel in 16) ______

A) opposite directions in a wave.
B) the same direction in a wave.
C) directions that are at right angles to the wave direction.

17) Sound travels faster in 17) ______

A) steel.
B) water.
C) a vacuum.
D) air.
E) Sound travels at about the same speed in all of the above media.

18) A 340-hertz sound wave travels at 340 m/s in air with a wavelength of 18) ______
A) 100 m.
B) 1000 m.
C) 1 m.
D) 10 m.
E) None of the above choices are correct.
1) A
2) B
3) A
4) C
5) A
6) B
7) C
8) A
9) D
10) C
11) C
12) A
13) B
14) C
15) B
16) B
17) A
18) C