omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 596 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 347.2 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 9.43 meters0.58 meters1.17 meters1.72 meters omit Question 2  A fisherman notices that wave crests pass the bow of his anchored boat every 5 seconds. He measures the distance between two wave crests to be 9.6 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 1.92 m/sec3.84 m/sec24.0 m/sec48.0 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 270 m/sec and a wavelength of 9.6 meters. What is this wave's period? 2.6 x 102 seconds3.56 x 10-2 seconds2.81 x 101 seconds2.8 x 102 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 0.27 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 3.7 x 100 Hz1.08 x 100 Hz1.85 x 100 Hz9.26 x 10-1 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 2.98 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 5.52 x 100 m/sec3.22 x 100 m/sec1.1 x 101 m/sec2.76 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 6.88 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 2.29 x 106 meters4.36 x 10-7 meters2.18 x 10-7 meters1.45 x 10-15 meters

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