Sound

Question Paper 1

Level IGCSE
Subject Physics
ExamBoard CIE
Topic Properties of Waves including Light and Sound
Sub-Topic Sound

Paper Type (Extended) Theory Paper

Booklet Question Paper 1

Time Allowed: 57 minutes

Score: /47

Percentage /100
1 (a) Two students are measuring the speed of sound.

The students are provided with a starting pistol, a stopwatch and a long measuring tape. The
starüng pistol, when fired, produces a loud sound and a puff of smoke at the same instant.

Describe how the students use the apparatus and how they calculate the speed. You may
draw a diagram.

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(6) A device at the bottom of the sea emits a sound wave of frequency 200 Hz.

() The speed of sound in sea-water is 1500 m/s.

Calculate the wavelength of the sound in sea-water.

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() The sound wave passes from the sea-water into the air.

State what happens, if anything. to

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2 () Fi9. 6.1 represents the waveform of a sound wave. The wave is travelling at constant speed.
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along wave

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(0) On Fig. 6.1,

1. label with the letter X the marked distance corresponding to the amplitude of the
wave,

2. label with the letter Y the marked distance corresponding to the wavelength of the
wave.

(11) State what happens to the amplitude and the wavelength of the wave if

1. the loudness of the sound is increased at constant pitch,

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2. the pitch of the sound is increased at constant loudness.

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(6) A ship uses pulses of sound to measure the depth of the sea beneath the ship. A sound pulse
is transmitted into the sea and the echo from the sea-bed is received after 54 ms. The speed
of sound in seawater is
1500m/s.
Calculate the depth of the sea beneath the ship.

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3 (a) A sound wave in air consists of altemate compressions and rarefactions along ts path.

( Explain how a compression differs from a rarefaction.

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(11) Explain, in terms of compressions, what is meant by

1. the wavelength of the sound,

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2. the frequency of the sound.

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(6) At night, bats emit pulses of sound to detect obstacles and prey. The speed of sound in air is
340 m/s.

() A bat emits a pulse of sound of wavelength 0.0085 m.

Calculate the frequency of the sound.

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(11) State why this sound cannot be heard by human beings.

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(u) The pulse of sound hits a stationary object and is refiected back to the bat. The pulse is
recelved by the bat 0.12s after it was emitted.

Calculate the distance travelled by the pulse of sound during this time.

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4 A sound wave, travelling in air, approaches a solid barrier with a gap in the middle. Fig. 6.1
represents the compressions and arefactions of the sound wave. The compressions are labelled
A, B and C.

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rarefaction

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(a) State how a compression differs from a rarefaction.

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(6) The speed of sound in air is 340m/s. The frequency of the sound is 850 Hz.

For this wave, determine

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(1) the time that elapses before compression A reaches the barrier.

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(c) On Fig. 6.1, draw the shape and positions of compressions B and C as compression A
reaches the barrier. (2
(d) Sound waves can also travel in water.

State how the speed of sound in water compares with the speed of sound in air.

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6 A dolphin produces a sound wave in water of frequency 7800 Hz.

Fig. 6.1 represents rarefactions of the sound wave travelling in the water and hitting the side of a
wooden ship at an angle.

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(a) State what is meant by a rarefaction.

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(6) On Fig. 6.1, two rarefactions A and B are labelled. The distance between rarefaction A and
rarefaction B is 0.76m.

Determine

(0) the wavelength in water of the sound wave,

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() the time taken for the rarefaction at A to reach the point where rarefection B is now
positioned.

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(c) The sound wave passes from the water into the wood where the
speed of sound is greater.
State what happens to

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(1) the wavelength.

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(4) On Fig. 6.1, Sketch the positions in the wood of the three incomplete rarefactions 121
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6 (a) Draw a straight line from each quantity on the left-hand side to a speed on the right-hand side
which is typical for that quantity.

30m/s
300 m
in gas
speed of sound
3000 m/s
speed of sound in solid 30000 m/s
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(b) Explain why sound waves are described as longitudinal.

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(c) Fig. 8.1 shows how the displacement of air molecules, at an instant of time, varies with
distance along the path of a sound wave.

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distance along path

of sound wave

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() On Fig. 8.1. sketch two cycles of a sound wave that has a shorter wavelength and a
greater amplitude. (2]
(0) State two changes in the sound heard from this wave compared with the original wave.

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