Sound Waves Calculations

You're listening to a musical note with a wavelength of 0.68 meters. If the speed of sound in air is approximately 343 meters per second, what is the frequency of this musical note?

• 504.41 Hz

• 50.44 Hz

• 5.04 Hz

• 5044.1 Hz

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A wave travels at a speed of 500 m/s and has a frequency of 250 Hz. What is its wavelength in meters?

• 2 meters

• 20 meters

• 0.2 meters

• 200 meters

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A guitar string vibrates with a frequency of 320 hz. If the wavelength of the vibration is 0.23 meters what is the speed of the wave?

• 320.23 m/s

• 1391.3 hz

• 73.6 m/hz

• 73.6 m/s

A wave travels at a speed of 400 m/s and has a wavelength of 2 meters. What is its frequency in Hz?

• 2 Hz

• 0.2 Hz

• 20 Hz

• 200 Hz

If a wave has a frequency of 150 Hz and a speed of 450 m/s, what is its wavelength in meters?

• 3 meters

• 30 meters

• 300 meters

• 0.3 meters

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A seismic wave has a frequency of 10 Hz and a wavelength of 50 meters. What is the speed of this seismic wave in meters per second (m/s)?

• 500 m/s

• 50 m/s

• 5 m/s

• 100 m/s

Velocity= 12 m/s
Wavelength= __________
Frequency= 600 hertz

• 7200 m

• 0.02 m

• 612 m

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High frequency waves have _________ wavelengths.

• varying

• long

• the same

• short

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The unit of frequency is ___.

• meters

• nanometers (nm)

• m/s

• Hertz

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A sound wave travels through air at a speed of 340 m/s. If the frequency of the wave is 170 Hz, what is its wavelength?

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