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sound wave questions my tutor couldn't even figure out
allright, well, i tried these problems, really thought i knew what i was doing, cause this section has been fairly easy, but i just can't get a couple of them! maybe you guys can help?
1 A stationary motion detector sends sound waves of 0.300 MHz toward a truck approaching at a speed of 32.0 m/s. The speed of sound in the air is 343 m/s. What is the frequency of the waves reflected back to the detector?
______ MHz
my method was to use the whole "f=fo[(v(+-)vo)/(v(+-)vs)] ordeal, using v=343, fo=.3, vo=0, and vs=32
so i worked it out like that, got .330868, wrong answer... my tutor's idea was that its not doplar at all, and just to enter the orig f, .3, but that wasnt right either... i have no idea what i did wrong
2. A plane flies at 1.15 times the speed of sound. Its sonic boom reaches a man on the ground 1.00 min after the plane passes directly overhead. What is the altitude of the plane? Assume the speed of sound to be 330 m/s.
______ m
this one should be easy as well, i did sin(theta)=(1/machnumber) and solving for the angle, then using that, as well as the time (60s) times the speed of sound (330 in this case) to find the hypotenuse of a triangle... did that, solved for the missing side, got 17217.39m, but that's wrong... any ideas?
and lastly
3. A trumpet player on a moving railroad flatcar and a second trumpet player standing alongside the track both play a 440 Hz note. The sound waves heard by a stationary observer between the two players have a beat frequency of 5.0 beats/s. The speed of sound in the air is 343 m/s. What is the flatcar's speed?
_____ m/s
for this one, figured id use the whole "fb=f1-f2" to get the freq, so that owuld be 445 Hz. then plug the numbers into the f=fo[(1/(1-(vc/vs))] with f=445Hz, fo=440Hz, vs=343m/s, and solve for vc... got 3.8539, wrong...
those were all the problems out of about 15 that i couldn't get, and i thought i just didnt grasp the concept, but when my tutor couldn't do them, i figured id ask some other experts for their opinions... any help would be greatly appreciated
allright, well, i tried these problems, really thought i knew what i was doing, cause this section has been fairly easy, but i just can't get a couple of them! maybe you guys can help?
1 A stationary motion detector sends sound waves of 0.300 MHz toward a truck approaching at a speed of 32.0 m/s. The speed of sound in the air is 343 m/s. What is the frequency of the waves reflected back to the detector?
______ MHz
my method was to use the whole "f=fo[(v(+-)vo)/(v(+-)vs)] ordeal, using v=343, fo=.3, vo=0, and vs=32
so i worked it out like that, got .330868, wrong answer... my tutor's idea was that its not doplar at all, and just to enter the orig f, .3, but that wasnt right either... i have no idea what i did wrong
2. A plane flies at 1.15 times the speed of sound. Its sonic boom reaches a man on the ground 1.00 min after the plane passes directly overhead. What is the altitude of the plane? Assume the speed of sound to be 330 m/s.
______ m
this one should be easy as well, i did sin(theta)=(1/machnumber) and solving for the angle, then using that, as well as the time (60s) times the speed of sound (330 in this case) to find the hypotenuse of a triangle... did that, solved for the missing side, got 17217.39m, but that's wrong... any ideas?
and lastly
3. A trumpet player on a moving railroad flatcar and a second trumpet player standing alongside the track both play a 440 Hz note. The sound waves heard by a stationary observer between the two players have a beat frequency of 5.0 beats/s. The speed of sound in the air is 343 m/s. What is the flatcar's speed?
_____ m/s
for this one, figured id use the whole "fb=f1-f2" to get the freq, so that owuld be 445 Hz. then plug the numbers into the f=fo[(1/(1-(vc/vs))] with f=445Hz, fo=440Hz, vs=343m/s, and solve for vc... got 3.8539, wrong...
those were all the problems out of about 15 that i couldn't get, and i thought i just didnt grasp the concept, but when my tutor couldn't do them, i figured id ask some other experts for their opinions... any help would be greatly appreciated
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