omit Question 1  A sound wave has a frequency of 257 Hz and travels in air at a speed of 343 m/sec. How far apart are any two adjacent wave compressions? 2.67 meters0.75 meters1.33 meters6.00 meters omit Question 2  A fisherman notices that wave crests pass the bow of his anchored boat every 3 seconds. He measures the distance between two wave crests to be 9.6 meters. How fast are the waves traveling? 28.8 m/sec3.20 m/sec6.40 m/sec14.4 m/sec omit Question 3  A wave has a speed of 200 m/sec and a wavelength of 9.6 meters. What is this wave's period? 2.08 x 101 seconds1.9 x 102 seconds2.1 x 102 seconds4.8 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 0.2 seconds. What is the wave's frequency? 5 x 100 Hz8 x 10-1 Hz2.5 x 100 Hz1.25 x 100 Hz omit Question 5  If the wavelength is 1.285 meters in Question 4, that how fast does the wave energy travel along the string? 3.21 x 100 m/sec6.43 x 100 m/sec1.03 x 100 m/sec1.61 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 6.38 x 1014 Hz. What is the approximate wavelength of the light? 2.13 x 106 meters2.35 x 10-7 meters1.57 x 10-15 meters4.7 x 10-7 meters

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