omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 501 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 347.2 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 0.69 meters1.39 meters1.44 meters8.48 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 3.1 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 18.6 m/sec1.03 m/sec9.3 m/sec0.52 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 270 m/sec and a wavelength of 3.1 meters. What is this wave's period? 2.73 x 102 seconds2.67 x 102 seconds1.15 x 10-2 seconds8.71 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 0.27 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 3.7 x 100 Hz1.08 x 100 Hz9.26 x 10-1 Hz1.85 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 2.505 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 2.32 x 100 m/sec9.28 x 100 m/sec2.71 x 100 m/sec4.64 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 4.55 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 6.59 x 10-7 meters2.2 x 10-15 meters3.3 x 10-7 meters1.52 x 106 meters

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