CLASS : IX (CBSE) SUBJECT : PHYSICS

NAME OF THE STUDENT: SEC: DATE:

SOUND
I. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1. What is sound?
2. With the help of an activity show that vibrating objects produce sound.
3. How does sound propagate in a medium?
4. Why are sound waves called as mechanical wave?
5. Propagation of sound can be visualized as propagation of density variations or
pressure variations in the medium. Comment.
6. Sound cannot travel through vacuum, demonstrate by an experiment.
7. With the help of an activity show that SOUND WAVES ARE LONGITUDINAL WAVES
8. Light is a transverse wave but it is not a mechanical wave. Why?
9. Differentiate between longitudinal and transverse wave.
10. How can we describe a sound wave?
11. Diagrammatically represent that Sound propagates as density or pressure variations
12. Show the sound wave in graphic form
13. A violin and a flute may both be played at the same time in an orchestra. Both sounds travel through the
same medium, that is, air and arrive at our ear at the same time. Both sounds travel at the same speed
irrespective of the source. But the sounds we receive are different. List the characteristics of sound
which make them different from each other. On what factors do they depend.
14. How is a high pitched sound different from a low pitched sound. Support your answer
graphically.
15. How is a louder sound different from a softer sound. Support your answer graphically
16. How can we distinguish one sound from another having the same pitch and loudness.
17. Differentiate between a tone and a note.
18. Differentiate between a musical sound and noise.
19. We sometimes use the terms “loudness” and “intensity” interchangeably, are they the same. Comment.
20. The sound of a thunder is heard a little later than the flash of light is seen.
21. On what factors does the speed of sound depend?
22. Write a short note on sonic boom.
23. With the help of an activity show that sound waves follow laws of reflection.
24. What is echo?
25. For hearing distinct echoes, what should be the minimum distance of the obstacle from the source
of sound?
26. What is the cause of rolling of thunder?
27. What is reverberation? How is it reduced?
28. Give few uses of multiple reflection of sound.
29. Megaphones or loudhailers, horns, musical instruments such as trumpets and shehanais, send sound in
a particular direction without spreading it in all directions How?
30. How does the sound of the patient’s heartbeat reaches the doctor’s ears in stethoscopes?
CLASS: IX (CBSE) SUBJECT: PHYSICS
NAME OF THE STUDENT: SEC: DATE:

Match the column

Column A Column B
(Frequency) (Sound range they fall)
5 Hz Audible range

25000 Hz Infrasonic range

25 Hz Ultrasonic range

250 Hz

10 Hz

120000 Hz
Match the column

Column A Column B
The maximum disturbance caused by the
wavelength
wave
The distance travelled by a wave per second frequency

The no of complete vibrations per sec Velocity

The distance between one crest of wave and
Amplitude
next one
When we change a feeble sound to loud
Time period
sound, we increase its
When we change the pitch, what is getting
changed

II) Table type question

Sound velocity Frequency Wavelength Time period Audible/Ultrasonic/Infrasonic

330 m/s 550Hz ? ? ?

500hz 68m ? ?

343.4m/s ? 1.7 cm ? ?
III) Fill in the blanks
1. Sound waves …… travel in vacuum
2. The speed of sound depends on …………. And …………
3. The soft and porous materials are bad................Of sound
4. The speed of the highly penetrating ultrasonic waves are...................................those of audible sound
waves
5. The................sound are produced before the main shock wave of earth quake

Crossword Puzzle Across

4. It is used break kidney stones into fine grains
7. The unit of frequency
8. The loudness of the sound depends on this
9. Medical instrument used by the doctors for listening to heartbeats
10. It is the region of low pressure in longitudinal wave
Down
1. Apparatus used to find the depth of the sea
2. It converts sound wave frequency into electrical impulses
3. A vibrating simple pendulum produces this type of sound
5. It is the sensation of a frequency
6. Elevation in a transverse wave
CLASS : IX (CBSE) SUBJECT : PHYSICS
NAME OF THE STUDENT: SEC: DATE:

1. The ceilings of concert halls, conference halls and cinema halls are curved. Why?
2. What is the audible range of sound for human beings?
3. We cannot hear the vibrations of a pendulum while the vibrations of the wings of a bee are audible
to us. Why?
4. It is observed that some animals get disturbed before earthquakes. How?
5. How are moths able to escape capture?
6. How is infrasonic wave different from ultrasonic wave?
7. Discuss few applications of ultrasound in industries and medicine.
8. Ultrasounds are able to travel along well defined paths even in the presence of obstacles.
9. Ultrasound is generally used to clean parts located in hard-to-reach places. How?
10. Ultrasounds can be used to detect cracks and flaws in metal blocks. How?
11. Name the instrument which uses ultrasonic waves for getting images of internal organs of the
human body. How does it function?
12. What is ultrasonography? Give its uses.
13. What is echocardiography?
14. What is SONAR. Name the three parameters which can be measured using it. How does the
sonar work? What is this technique called and why?
15. How do bats search out prey and fly in dark night?
16. How do we hear?
17. Draw the well labeled diagram showing the internal structure of human ear.
18. Arrange the speed of sound in Steel, water and air in ascending order?
19. What is the relation between frequency and time period of the wave?
20. Sound waves are transverse waves. True or False?
21. Arrange the speed of these waves in air in descending order a) light b) Sound c) Supersonic aircraft?
22. What is an echo?
23. What are three characteristics of the sound?
24. What is the audible range of sound frequencies for human ear?
25. What is Reflection of sound?