The water level in a vertical glass tube 1.00 m long can be adjusted to any position in the tube. A tuning fork vibrating at 686 Hz is held just over the open top end of the tube, to set up a standing wave of sound in the air-filled top portion of the tube. (That airfilled top portion acts as a tube with one end closed and the other end open.) (a) For how many different positions of the water level will sound from the fork set up resonance in the tube’s air-filled portion? What are the (b) least and (c) second least water heights in the tube for resonance to occur?
Properties of sound
A sound wave is a mechanical wave (or mechanical vibration) that transit through media such as gas (air), liquid (water), and solid (wood).
Quality Of Sound
A sound or a sound wave is defined as the energy produced due to the vibrations of particles in a medium. When any medium produces a disturbance or vibrations, it causes a movement in the air particles which produces sound waves. Molecules in the air vibrate about a certain average position and create compressions and rarefactions. This is called pitch which is defined as the frequency of sound. The frequency is defined as the number of oscillations in pressure per second.
Categories of Sound Wave
People perceive sound in different ways, like a medico student takes sound as vibration produced by objects reaching the human eardrum. A physicist perceives sound as vibration produced by an object, which produces disturbances in nearby air molecules that travel further. Both of them describe it as vibration generated by an object, the difference is one talks about how it is received and other deals with how it travels and propagates across various mediums.
The water level in a vertical glass tube 1.00 m long can be adjusted
to any position in the tube. A tuning fork vibrating at 686 Hz
is held just over the open top end of the tube, to set up a standing
wave of sound in the air-filled top portion of the tube. (That airfilled
top portion acts as a tube with one end closed and the other
end open.) (a) For how many different positions of the water level
will sound from the fork set up resonance in the tube’s air-filled
portion? What are the (b) least and (c) second least water heights
in the tube for resonance to occur?
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