omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 579 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 342.4 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 9.21 meters0.59 meters1.69 meters1.18 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 7 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 2.33 m/sec4.67 m/sec10.5 m/sec21.0 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 190 m/sec and a wavelength of 7 meters. What is this wave's period? 1.83 x 102 seconds3.68 x 10-2 seconds1.97 x 102 seconds2.71 x 101 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 0.19 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 5.26 x 100 Hz7.6 x 10-1 Hz2.63 x 100 Hz1.32 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 2.895 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 2.2 x 100 m/sec7.62 x 100 m/sec3.81 x 100 m/sec1.52 x 101 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 4.95 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 3.03 x 10-7 meters2.02 x 10-15 meters1.65 x 106 meters6.06 x 10-7 meters

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