omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 468 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 343 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 1.36 meters8.11 meters1.47 meters0.73 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 4.3 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 0.86 m/sec21.5 m/sec10.8 m/sec1.72 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 200 m/sec and a wavelength of 4.3 meters. What is this wave's period? 4.65 x 101 seconds2.15 x 10-2 seconds2.04 x 102 seconds1.96 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 0.2 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 8 x 10-1 Hz1.25 x 100 Hz2.5 x 100 Hz5 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 2.34 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 5.85 x 100 m/sec1.17 x 101 m/sec2.93 x 100 m/sec1.87 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 5.67 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 5.29 x 10-7 meters1.76 x 10-15 meters2.65 x 10-7 meters1.89 x 106 meters

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