Physics 9702 · AS & A Level · Progressive waves

Progressive waves — practice question

A bicycle gear wheel is a disc with 50 ‘teeth’ spaced evenly around its rim. It turns 10 times every second. As the wheel spins, a springy metal strip is made to vibrate by the passing ‘teeth’. The sound produced by the metal strip has a frequency equal to the strip’s vibration frequency. The speed of sound in air is $330\,\text{m s}^{-1}$. What wavelength does the emitted sound have?

  • A$0.66\,\text{m}$
  • B$1.5\,\text{m}$
  • C$6.6\,\text{m}$
  • D$500\,\text{m}$

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