MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

A loudspeaker is playing music in a room. The door to the room is open and has a width of 0.80 m. Sound waves of many different frequencies pass thro...

2024 Summer

5

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

A stationary sound wave is set up between a loudspeaker and a wall. A microphone is connected to a cathode-ray oscilloscope (CRO) and is moved along ...

2024 Summer

4

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

For a wire, Hooke's law is obeyed for a tension $F$ and extension $x$. The Young modulus for the material of the wire is $E$. Which expression repres...

2024 Summer

5

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

A guitar string is plucked. Which statement describes the resulting waves?

2024 Summer

4

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

A plane polarised wave has amplitude $A$. The wave is incident normally on a polarising filter. The transmission axis of the filter is at angle $\the...

2024 Summer

3

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

A stationary sound wave is formed in the air column inside a tube that is open at both ends. The stationary wave has three nodes. How many antinodes...

2024 Summer

5

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

Light of frequency $6.7 \times 10^{14}\, \text{Hz}$ in a vacuum is incident normally on a diffraction grating that contains $4.0 \times 10^{5}\, \text...

2024 Summer

4

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

The siren of a moving police car emits a sound wave with a frequency of 440 Hz. A stationary observer hears sound of frequency 494 Hz. The speed of so...

2024 Summer

3

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

What happens when two waves superpose at a point?

2024 Winter

4

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

Waves P and Q have the same amplitude. The waves meet in phase at point X and interfere to give a resultant wave with intensity $I$. The amplitude of...

2024 Winter

3

MCQ

CH1 - PHYSICAL QUANTITIES & UNITS

Which unit can be expressed in base units as kg m^2 s^{-2}?

2019 Summer

3

MCQ

CH1 - PHYSICAL QUANTITIES & UNITS

The luminosity $L$ of a star is given by $L = 4\pi r^2 \sigma T^4$ where $r$ is the radius of the star, $T$ is the temperature of the star and $\si...

2019 Summer

3

MCQ

CH2 - MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES

A particle has velocity $V$ at an angle $\theta$ to the horizontal. The components of the particle’s velocity are $V_v$ upwards in the vertical dire...

2019 Summer

2

MCQ

CH14 - WAVES

A whale produces sound waves of frequency 5 Hz. The waves are detected by a microphone and displayed on an oscilloscope. What is the time-base sett...

2019 Summer

2

MCQ

CH2 - MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES

The speed shown on a car's speedometer is proportional to the rate of rotation of the tyres. The variation of the diameter of a tyre as it wears intro...

2019 Summer

3

MCQ

CH3 - KINEMATICS

A car travels along a straight horizontal road. The graph shows the variation of the velocity $v$ of the car with time $t$ for 6.0 s of its journey. ...

2019 Summer

3

MCQ

CH3 - KINEMATICS

A stone is thrown horizontally from the top of a cliff and falls into the sea some time later. Air resistance is negligible. Which graph shows how th...

2019 Summer

3

MCQ

CH17 - ELECTRIC FIELDS

A positive charge of $2.6 \times 10^{-8} \text{ C}$ is in a uniform electric field of field strength $300000 \text{ Vm}^{-1}$. How much work must be ...

2019 Summer

3

MCQ

CH4 - DYNAMICS

Each diagram illustrates a pair of forces of equal magnitude. Which diagram gives an example of a pair of forces that is described by Newton's third ...

2019 Summer

3

MCQ

CH3 - KINEMATICS

A stone is dropped from a tall building. Air resistance is significant. The variation of distance fallen with time is shown by the dashed line. A sec...

2019 Summer

3