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Physics 2
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This evaluation will cover the lessons in this unit. It is open book, meaning you can use your textbook, syllabus, and other course materials. To submit the evaluation, follow the directions provided.
When you feel you are adequately prepared, complete this Unit Evaluation. It is important that you
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course materials for help in answering the questions. You may also use your calculator on this
evaluation. After you have completed this evaluation, you will submit it for grading.
Multiple Choice
Choose the answer that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. What is a hertz?
a. the distance between successive identical parts of a wave
b. the number of vibrations per unit time
c. the distance from a midpoint to a crest
d. a unit of frequency defined as once cycle per second
____ 2. All physical waves are created by
a. a change in temperature.
b. an object that is moving.
c. a change in pressure.
d. an object that is vibrating.
____ 3. Which of the following best describes a transverse wave?
a. The medium does not vibrate.
b. The medium vibrates at right angles to the direction the wave travels.
c. The medium vibrates in the same direction the wave travels.
d. No medium is required.
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____ 4. Which waves are examples of a longitudinal wave?
a. waves in the strings of instruments
b. radio waves
c. light waves
d. sound waves
____ 5. What kind of wave (as illustrated in Figure 25.9 on page 497 of your textbook) transfers energy from left to right?
a. both transverse and longitudinal
b. transverse
c. longitudinal
d. neither longitudinal nor transverse
____ 6. What does it mean to be “out of phase”
a. when crests overlap troughs and effects are reduced
b. when crests of one wave overlap the crests of another wave
c. when crests overlap and effects add together
d. when crests and troughs overlap to produce zero amplitude
____ 7. Two fire-trucks with sirens on speed toward and away from an observer as shown in Figure
25.17 on page 503 of your textbook. Describe the effect produced by the truck on the left in
terms of frequency.
a. Frequency is increasing, resulting in higher pitch.
b. Frequency is decreasing, resulting in higher pitch.
c. Frequency is increasing, resulting in lower pitch.
d. Frequency is decreasing, resulting in lower pitch.
e. Frequency does not change but wavelength does.
____ 8. What causes a bow wave?
a. Bow waves are only caused by the front of a boat cutting through water.
b. Bow waves are created when any wave source moves faster than the wave it produces.
c. Bow waves are created when a sonic boom creates a moving region of high pressure.
d. Bow waves are only caused by objects approaching the speed of sound.
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____ 9. You are standing on a pier watching waves go by. A wave passes you every 5 seconds and
you note that the crests are separated by 12 m. How fast are the waves traveling?
a. 0.24 m/s
b. 2.4 m/s
c. 24 m/s
d. 240 m/s
____ 10. What vibrates when you speak?
a. your throat
b. your mouth
c. your vocal cords
____ 11. Suppose a friend is far away and tapping on a metal fence. What can you say about the
sounds created?
a. The sound is softer and travels slower in the metal than in the air.
b. The sound is louder but travels slower in the metal than in the air.
c. The sound is softer but travels faster in the metal than in the air.
d. The sound is louder and travels faster in the metal than in the air.
____ 12. According to the following table, determine the source of sound that is 100 times as intense as the normal sound in a library.
Source of Sound
Level in dB
jet engine at 30m
140
old subway train
100
average factory
90
normal speech
60
library
40
a. jet engine at 30m
b. old subway train
c. average factory
d. normal speech
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____ 13. According to Figure 26.16 in your textbook, which of the following explains how beats are
formed?
a. One sound source is regularly turned on and off.
b. Two sound sources with the same frequency are on opposite sides of the listener.
c. One sound source produces areas of high and low density that are perceived as being
loud and quiet.
d. Two sound sources with slightly different frequencies interfere with each other.
____ 14. What does your friend mean when she says “light is the only thing you see”?
a. Your friend is incorrect because light is not actually visible.
b. It is just a saying to highlight the important role of light.
c. A green plant reflects green light and so without light the plant would not be visible.
____ 15. List the types of waves in the EM spectrum in order from longest wavelength (at the top) to
shortest wavelength (at the bottom).
a. radio, micro, IR, visible, UV, X-rays, Gamma-rays
b. radio, micro, UV, visible, IR, X-rays, Gamma-rays
c. Gamma-rays, X-rays, UV, visible, IR, micro, radio
d. Gamma-rays, X-rays, IR, visible, UV, micro, radio
____ 16. What is the basic difference between transparent and opaque materials?
a. Light passes through transparent materials but is absorbed or reflected by opaque materials.
b. Light passes through opaque materials but is absorbed or reflected by transparent materials.
c. Transparent materials are “clear” while opaque materials let light through but not color.
d. Opaque materials are “clear” while transparent materials let light through but not color.
____ 17. The Doppler effect is
a. a change in sound frequency due only to the motion of the source of the sound.
b. a change in light frequency due only to the motion of the source of the receiver.
c. a change in sound or light frequency due only to the motion of the source of the sound.
d. a change in either sound or light frequency due to the motion of either the source or receiver.
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____ 18. A satellite TV company broadcasts its signals from its earthbound station to a satellite in
orbit 36,000km away, and from there back to Earth’s surface. How much time does it take
for the signal to get from the station to the customer?
a. 0.12 seconds
b. 0.24 seconds
c. 1.2 seconds
d. 2.4 seconds
____ 19. What color will an opaque object appear?
a. the color it reflects
b. the color of the light that shines on it
c. the color it absorbs
d. the color of white light
____ 20. What happens to the sunlight in Figure 28.6 in your textbook as it passes through the
glass?
a. Blue light is reflected.
b. All the colors are reflected except blue, which is transmitted.
c. Blue light is absorbed.
d. All the colors are absorbed except blue, which is transmitted.
____ 21. Use Figure 28.7 in your textbook to determine if the brightness of sunlight is directly proportional to frequency.
a. Yes, the brightness of sunlight is directly proportional to frequency.
b. No, the brightness of sunlight is not directly proportional to frequency.
____ 22. What is the brightest portion of the spectrum of sunlight?
a. short wavelength, blue-violet light
b. long wavelength, red light
c. middle wavelength, yellow-green light
____ 23. What is a complementary color?
a. the color that is produced when one color is subtracted from white light
b. one of two colors that go well together
c. the color that is produced when two primary colors are added
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____ 24. Your friend claims that mixing colored paints gives the same results as mixing different
colors of light. Do you agree or disagree?
a. agree
b. disagree
Matching
Match the scientist with the idea about the nature of light. Some ideas may be used more than
once.
____ 25. Einstein
a. Light is a wave.
____ 26. Empedocles
b. Light consists of tiny particles.
____ 27. Euclid
____ 28. Huygens
c. Vision results from streamers or
filaments emitted by the eye making contact with an object.
____ 29. Plato
____ 30. Socrates
Match the following terms with their definitions.
____ 31. A phenomenon that occurs when the frequency
of a vibration forced on an object matches the
object’s natural frequency.
a. natural frequency
b. resonance
____ 32. A vibration that occurs when an object is made
to vibrate by another vibrating object nearby.
c. rarefaction
____ 33. The frequency at which an object vibrates
when it is disturbed.
e. forced vibration
d. compression
____ 34. A pulse of compressed air that travels to create sound.
____ 35. A pulse of low-pressure air that travels to create sound.
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