A racing car moving towards a cliff sounds its horn. The driver observes that the sound reflected from the cliff has a pitch one octave higher than the actual sound of the horn. If $v$ is the velocity of sound, the velocity of the car will be

The amplitude of a wave disturbance propagating in the positive $X-$ direction is given by $y = 1/(1 + x^2)$ at time $t = 0$ and by $y = 1/[1 + (x -1)^2]$ at $t = 2$ seconds, where $x$ and $y$ are in metres. The shape of the wave disturbance does not change during the propagation. The velocity of the wave is ..... $ms^{-1}$

A car sounding its horn at $480\,Hz$ moves towards a high wall at a speed of $20\,m/s$. If the speed of sound is $340\,m/s,$ the frequency of the reflected sound heard by the passenger sitting in the car will be the nearest to ..... $Hz$

A uniform rope of length $L$ and mass $m_1$ hangs vertically from a rigid support. A block of mass $m_2$ is attached to the free end of the rope. A transverse pulse of wavelength $\lambda _1$ is produced at the lower end of the rope. The wavelength of the pulse when it reaches the top of the rope is $\lambda _2$ . The ratio $\lambda _2/\lambda _1$ is

A train whistling at constant frequency is moving towards a station at a constant speed $V$. The train goes past a stationary observer on the station. The frequency $n'$ of the sound as heard by the observer is plotted as a function of time $t (Fig.)$ . Identify the expected curve

The stationary wave $y = 2a{\mkern 1mu} \,\,sin\,\,{\mkern 1mu} kx{\mkern 1mu} \,\,cos{\mkern 1mu} \,\omega t$ in a stretched string is the result of superposition of $y_1 = a\,sin\,(kx -\omega t)$ and