omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 602 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 345.4 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 1.15 meters1.74 meters0.57 meters9.47 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 4.9 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 1.96 m/sec0.98 m/sec24.5 m/sec12.3 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 240 m/sec and a wavelength of 4.9 meters. What is this wave's period? 4.9 x 101 seconds2.35 x 102 seconds2.45 x 102 seconds2.04 x 10-2 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 0.24 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 4.17 x 100 Hz9.6 x 10-1 Hz1.04 x 100 Hz2.08 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 3.01 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 1.25 x 101 m/sec6.27 x 100 m/sec3.14 x 100 m/sec2.89 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 7.11 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 1.41 x 10-15 meters2.37 x 106 meters2.11 x 10-7 meters4.22 x 10-7 meters

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