omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 577 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 343 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 1.68 meters9.20 meters1.19 meters0.59 meters omit Question 2  A fisherman notices that wave crests pass the bow of his anchored boat every 4 seconds. He measures the distance between two wave crests to be 5.7 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 11.4 m/sec1.43 m/sec2.85 m/sec22.8 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 200 m/sec and a wavelength of 5.7 meters. What is this wave's period? 2.85 x 10-2 seconds1.94 x 102 seconds3.51 x 101 seconds2.06 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 Hz5 x 100 Hz1.25 x 100 Hz2.5 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 2.885 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 1.44 x 101 m/sec7.21 x 100 m/sec2.31 x 100 m/sec3.61 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 4.74 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 2.11 x 10-15 meters1.58 x 106 meters6.33 x 10-7 meters3.17 x 10-7 meters

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