omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 330 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 346.6 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 0.95 meters1.05 meters6.77 meters2.10 meters omit Question 2  A fisherman notices that wave crests pass the bow of his anchored boat every 6 seconds. He measures the distance between two wave crests to be 8.2 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 49.2 m/sec2.73 m/sec1.37 m/sec24.6 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 260 m/sec and a wavelength of 8.2 meters. What is this wave's period? 3.15 x 10-2 seconds2.52 x 102 seconds3.17 x 101 seconds2.68 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 0.26 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 1.04 x 100 Hz9.62 x 10-1 Hz3.85 x 100 Hz1.92 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 1.65 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 6.35 x 100 m/sec3.17 x 100 m/sec1.72 x 100 m/sec1.59 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 6.65 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 1.5 x 10-15 meters2.26 x 10-7 meters4.51 x 10-7 meters2.22 x 106 meters

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