What is the range of frequencies associated with
(a) Infrasound?
(b) Ultrasound?
(a) Infrasound has frequencies less than 20 Hz.
(b) Ultrasound has frequencies more than 20,000 Hz.
Explain the working and application of a sonar.
Explain how sound is produced by your school bell.
Explain how defects in a metal block can be detected using ultrasound.
Distinguish between loudness and intensity of sound.
A sound wave travels at a speed of 339 m s-1. If its wavelength is 1.5 cm, what is the frequency of the wave? Will it be audible?
Which characteristic of the sound helps you to identify your friend by his voice while sitting with others in a dark room?
A sonar device on a submarine sends out a signal and receives an echo 5 s later. Calculate the speed of sound in water if the distance of the object from the submarine is 3625 m.
Which wave property determines
(a) loudness, (b) pitch?
How is ultrasound used for cleaning?
Explain how the human ear works.
Which of the following has more inertia: (a) a rubber ball and a stone of the same size? (b) a bicycle and a train? (c) a five-rupees coin and a one-rupee coin?
State the universal law of gravitation.
Which of the following are matter?
Chair, air, love, smell, hate, almonds, thought, cold, cold-drink, smell of perfume.
A force of 7 N acts on an object. The displacement is, say 8 m, in the direction of the force (Fig. 11.3). Let us take it that the force acts on the object through the displacement. What is the work done in this case?
What is meant by a pure substance?
In a reaction, 5.3 g of sodium carbonate reacted with 6 g of ethanoic acid. The products were 2.2 g of carbon dioxide, 0.9 g water and 8.2 g of sodium observations are in agreement with the law of conservation of mass.
sodium carbonate + ethanoic acid → sodium ethanoate + carbon dioxide + water
What are canal rays?
State any two conditions essential for good health.
How is our atmosphere different from the atmospheres on Venus and Mars?
Who discovered cells, and how?
What are the methods of preventing or reducing soil erosion?
What are canal rays?
Explain, why is it difficult for a fireman to hold a hose, which ejects large amounts of water at a high velocity.
Compare the properties of electrons, protons and neutrons.
What is the specific function of the cardiac muscle?
Write the distribution of electrons in carbon and sodium atoms.
If an atom contains one electron and one proton, will it carry any charge or not?
What are the two forms of oxygen found in the atmosphere?
What are the differences between amphibians and reptiles?
What is the momentum of an object of mass m, moving with a velocity v?
(a) (mv)2 (b) mv2 (c) 1⁄2 mv2 (d) mv