omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 572 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 345.4 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 0.60 meters1.21 meters9.17 meters1.66 meters omit Question 2  A fisherman notices that wave crests pass the bow of his anchored boat every 3 seconds. He measures the distance between two wave crests to be 9.1 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 6.07 m/sec27.3 m/sec13.7 m/sec3.03 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 240 m/sec and a wavelength of 9.1 meters. What is this wave's period? 2.31 x 102 seconds2.64 x 101 seconds2.49 x 102 seconds3.79 x 10-2 seconds omit Question 4  A sinusoidal wave travels along a string. The time for a particular point to move from maximum displacement to zero is 0.24 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 9.6 x 10-1 Hz1.04 x 100 Hz2.08 x 100 Hz4.17 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 2.86 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 2.75 x 100 m/sec5.96 x 100 m/sec1.19 x 101 m/sec2.98 x 100 m/sec omit Question 6  Light has a speed in a vacuum of 3 x 108 m/s. The frequency of visible light is about 6.79 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 2.26 x 106 meters2.21 x 10-7 meters1.47 x 10-15 meters4.42 x 10-7 meters

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