National Public School, whitefield
CH-11 SOUND
Class 09 - Science
Time Allowed: 3 minutes Maximum Marks: 62
Section A
1. A sound wave has a frequency of 2 kHz and wave length 35 cm. How long will it take to travel 1.5 [2]
km?
2. A person clapped his hands near a cliff and heard the echo after 2s. What is the distance of the [1]
cliff from the person if the speed of the sound, v is taken as 346 ms-1?
3. How does the sound produced by a vibrating object in a medium reach your ear? [2]
4. Explain how sound is produced by your school bell. [2]
5. Why are sound waves called mechanical waves? [2]
6. Suppose you and your friend are on the moon. Will you be able to hear any sound produced by [2]
your friend?
7. Which wave property determines [2]
a. loudness,
b. pitch?
8. Guess which sound has a higher pitch: guitar or car horn? [1]
9. What are wavelength, frequency, time period and amplitude of a sound wave? [2]
10. How are the wavelength and frequency of a sound wave related to its speed? [2]
11. Calculate the wavelength of a sound wave whose frequency is 220 Hz and speed is 440 m/s in a [1]
given medium.
12. A person is listening to a tone of 500 Hz sitting at a distance of 450 m from the source of the [2]
sound. What is the time interval between successive compressions from the source?
13. Distinguish between loudness and intensity of sound. [2]
14. In which of the three media, air, water or iron, does sound travel the fastest at a particular [1]
temperature?
15. An echo is heard in 3 s. What is the distance of the reflecting surface from the source, given that [1]
the speed of sound is 342 m s-1?
16. Why are the ceilings of concert halls curved? [2]
17. What is the audible range of the average human ear? [1]
18. What is the range of frequencies associated with [1]
a. Infrasound?
b. Ultrasound?
Section B
19. What is sound and how is it produced? [1]
20. Describe with the help of a diagram, how compressions and rarefactions are produced in air near [2]
a source of sound.
21. Why is sound wave called a longitudinal wave? [1]
22. Which characteristic of the sound helps you to identify your friend by his voice while sitting with [1]
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others in a dark room?
23. Flash and thunder are produced simultaneously. But thunder is heard a few seconds after the [3]
flash is seen, why?
24. A person has a hearing range from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. What are the typical wavelengths of sound [2]
waves in air corresponding to these two frequencies? Take the speed of sound in air as 344 ms-1.
25. Two children are at opposite ends of an aluminium rod. One strikes the end of the rod with a [3]
stone. Find the ratio of times taken by the sound wave in air and in aluminium to reach the
second child.
26. The frequency of a source of sound is 100 Hz. How many times does it vibrate in a minute? [2]
27. Does sound follow the same laws of reflection as light does? Explain. [2]
28. When a sound is reflected from a distant object, an echo is produced. Let the distance between [2]
the reflecting surface and the source of sound production remains the same. Do you hear echo
sound on a hotter day?
29. Give two practical applications of reflection of sound waves. [2]
30. A stone is dropped from the top of a tower 500 m high into a pond of water at the base of the [2]
tower. When is the splash heard at the top? Given, g = 10 ms-2 and speed of sound = 340 ms-1.
31. A sound wave travels at a speed of 339 ms-1. If its wavelength is 1.5 cm, what is the frequency of [2]
the wave? Will it be audible?
32. What is reverberation? How can it be reduced? [2]
33. What is loudness of sound? What factors does it depend on? [2]
34. How is ultrasound used for cleaning? [2]
35. Explain how defects in a metal block can be detected using ultrasound. [2]
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