Sound - Production of sound Q/A

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1. Write answers to the following questions.
(a) Why do we hear musical notes when strings of a sitar are plucked?
(b) How does a bat find its way in the dark?
(c) What is the SONAR system based on?
(d) Why is the sound of the bell smothered when a hand is placed on it?

2. Fill in the blanks.
(a) Man can hear sounds of sound frequencies between 20 and …………… Hz.
(b) Amplitude and …………….. are not related.
(c) The period of oscillation depends upon the ………………. Of the pendulum.

3. Match the following
                Group ‘A’                                            Group ‘B’
                (a) frequency                                    1. ultrasonic sound
                (b) period of oscillation                     2. metre
                (c) amplitude                                     3. second
                (d) bat                                              4. hertz
                                                                       5. audible sound

4. True or false?
(a) Frequency increases if amplitude is increased.
(b) A bat uses the principle of radar system while flying at night.
(c) Ultrasonic sounds are produced in the sonar system.


ANSWERS
1. Write answers to the following questions.
(a) Why do we hear musical notes when strings of a sitar are plucked?
ANS:      1) Vibration of source is necessary for the production of the sound.
                2) When we pluck the strings of a sitar, they vibrate and we hear characteristic sound.
                3) These characteristics sounds are different musical notes.
                4) Therefore we hear musical notes when strings of a sitar are plucked.

(b) How does a bat find its way in the dark?
ANS:      1) The bats produce ultrasonic sounds while flying in the dark.
                2) That sound is reflected from objects in front of the bat.
                3) From the reflected sound the bat comes to know of the position of things in its surroundings.
                4) Thus it is said that, with the help of ultrasonic sound a bat ‘sees’ with its ears to find its way in the dark.

(c) What is the SONAR system based on?
ANS:      1) Sonar system is based on the ultrasonic sound.
                2) Sonar is a kind of radar system
                3) Ultrasonic sounds are produced and caused to be reflected.
                4) The radar system tells the position of the objects by getting the waves it produces reflected from targets in front.
                5) Sonar system is used to detect impurities inside the metal, also to measure the depth of the ocean floor etc

(d) Why is the sound of the bell smothered when a hand is placed on it?
ANS:      1) Vibration of source is necessary for the production of the sound.
                2) The sound of the bell is produced because vibrations of the bell.
                3) If we place our over the vibrating bell, the vibrations are interrupted.
                4) Therefore, the sound of the bell smothered when a hand is placed on it

2. Fill in the blanks.
(a) Man can hear sounds of sound frequencies between 20 and 20,000 Hz.
(b) Amplitude and frequency are not related.
(c) The period of oscillation depends upon the length of the pendulum.

3. Match the following
                Group ‘A’                                            Group ‘B’
                (a) frequency                                    4. hertz
                (b) period of oscillation                      3. second
                (c) amplitude                                     2. metre
                (d) bat                                              1. ultrasonic sound

4. True or false?
(a) Frequency increases if amplitude is increased.
Ans: False [Even if frequency is increased amplitude remains the same]
(b) A bat uses the principle of radar system while flying at night.
Ans: False [A bat uses ultrasonic sounds while flying at the night]
(c) Ultrasonic sounds are produced in the sonar system.
Ans: True



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