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Problems: Assignment Number: 03

This document contains 14 problems related to oscillations, waves, and resonance. The problems cover topics like calculating the frequency and quality factor of an oscillating system given values for inductance, capacitance and resistance. Other problems involve determining the period of oscillation for a particle under elastic and damping forces, calculating wave properties like speed and wavelength, and finding amplitudes and phase differences for waves that are combined or in resonance. Students are asked to upload their solutions to these problems to Google Classroom by September 15, 2020.

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Problems: Assignment Number: 03

This document contains 14 problems related to oscillations, waves, and resonance. The problems cover topics like calculating the frequency and quality factor of an oscillating system given values for inductance, capacitance and resistance. Other problems involve determining the period of oscillation for a particle under elastic and damping forces, calculating wave properties like speed and wavelength, and finding amplitudes and phase differences for waves that are combined or in resonance. Students are asked to upload their solutions to these problems to Google Classroom by September 15, 2020.

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Assignment Number: 03

Problems
1. Suppose a tuning fork in air has a frequency and its oscillation die away to 1/e of its
former amplitude in one second. Show that the reduction in frequency brought about by air damping is
exceedingly small.
2. Deduce the frequency and quality factor for a circuit with L=4 , C= and R= 0.6 Ω.
3. A particle of mass 7 gm is subjected to an elastic force of 58 dyne/cm and a damping force of 14 dyne-
cm-1 sec. If the motion is oscillatory, find its period.
4. A massless spring, suspended from a rigid support, carries a mass of 750 gm at its lower end and the
system oscillates with a frequency of 7/sec. If the amplitude is reduced to half its undamped value in
30 sec, Calculate
(i) the force constant of the spring.
(ii) the relaxation time of the system
(iii) its quality factor.
5. A particle of mass 3 gm is free to vibrate under the action of an elastic force of 240 dyne/cm and a
damping force of 8 dyne-cm-1 sec. A periodically varying outside force of a maximum value 400 dynes
is applied to the particle. Find the frequency for displacement resonance and velocity resonance.
6. In an experiment on forced oscillations, the frequency of a sinusoidal driving force is changed while its
amplitude is kept constant. It is found that the amplitude of vibrations is 0.01 mm at very low
frequency of the driving force and goes up to a maximum of 5.0 mm at driving frequency 200 cps.
Calculate the quality factor and the relaxation time of the system.
7. A harmonic oscillator of quality factor 10 is subjected to a sinusoidal applied force of frequency one
and a half times the natural frequency of the oscillator. If the damping be small, obtain (i) the
amplitude of the forced oscillation in terms of its maximum amplitude and (ii) the angle by which it
will be out of phase with the driving force.
8. A source of sound has a frequency of 512 Hz and amplitude of 0.25 cm. What is the flow of energy
across a square cm per second, if the velocity of sound in air is 340 m/s and the density of air is
0.00129 g/cm3?
9. The velocity of a simple harmonic wave is 50 cm/s. At a time t=0 the displacement of a particle is
given by . Find the equation for the displacement at a time t= 3 sec.
10. A sinusoidal wave travelling along a string is described by) in
which the numerical constants are in SI units (0.00327 m= 72.1 rad/m, and 2.72 rad/s). What are the
wave number and speed of the wave?
11. Determine (i) the velocity of sound in a gas in which two waves of lengths 50 cm and 50.5 cm produce
6 beats per second and (ii) the velocity of sound in water in which waves of lengths 500 cm and 512
cm produce 6 beats per second.
12. A plane progressive wave train of frequency 500 cycles per second has a phase velocity of 580 m/sec.
(i) How far apart are two points 300 out of phase?
(ii) What is the phase difference between two displacements at a given point at time 10 -3 sec apart?
13. A tuning fork A of frequency 326 Hz gives 6 beats per second when sounded with another tuning fork
B. On loading B with a little wax, the number of beats per second becomes 4. What is the frequency of
B?
14. Find the resultant of two plane simple harmonic waves of the same period travelling in the same
direction but different in phase and amplitude. What is the amplitude of the resultant wave if those of
the component waves be 5.0 and 6.0 respectively and their phase difference radian?

All are requested to upload your assignment (pdf /doc) files in Google Classroom
within September 15, 2020.

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