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    Victor Cheng submitted a problem set for his Physics of Music course. He provided background information about himself, answering questions about his field of study, where he is from, and why he took the course. He then correctly answered multiple choice questions about how period and frequency change when the other variable changes. Victor also sketched a position vs. time graph to show his motion over a period of time walking and running. Finally, he analyzed a video of wave demonstrations and measured properties like speed, wavelength, period, and frequency for different waves.

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    Victor Cheng submitted a problem set for his Physics of Music course. He provided background information about himself, answering questions about his field of study, where he is from, and why he took the course. He then correctly answered multiple choice questions about how period and frequency change when the other variable changes. Victor also sketched a position vs. time graph to show his motion over a period of time walking and running. Finally, he analyzed a video of wave demonstrations and measured properties like speed, wavelength, period, and frequency for different waves.

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    Victor Cheng submitted a problem set for his Physics of Music course. He provided background information about himself, answering questions about his field of study, where he is from, and why he took the course. He then correctly answered multiple choice questions about how period and frequency change when the other variable changes. Victor also sketched a position vs. time graph to show his motion over a period of time walking and running. Finally, he analyzed a video of wave demonstrations and measured properties like speed, wavelength, period, and frequency for different waves.

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    Victor Cheng 1001516807

    Name: . Student Number: .

    Problem Set 1: Due Friday, July 10, 2020 by 11:59pm


    Please print out this PDF, and write out all the answers to the questions in the spaces provided. Show all
    your steps and reasoning for full marks. Then, take photographs or a scan of your work, go to Quercus,
    and submit the image(s) as a File Upload for this Problem Set.
    1. [3 points] Please write a few words about yourself, and your reasons for being in this course.
    For example: What is your main field of study here at U of T? Where are you from? Why did
    you take Physics of Music, and what do you hope to get out of it?

    Hi my name is Victor and I'm from Mississauga, though I live in the city now. I am a student
    at the faculty of music, and am also a professional choral singer and conductor. I'm a big fan
    of spectral music, where composers will base their pieces on spectrographic analyses of
    timbres. I'm hoping this course will provide me some foundational knowledge on this, and
    help guide my private study.

    2. [2 points] An object is shaking back and forth with a certain period. If the period of this shaking
    increases, what happens to the frequency?

    When the period increases, the time it takes for the object to complete one cycle will
    increase. This means that there will be less cycles that occur per second, meaning that the
    frequency will decrease.

    3. [2 points] An object is shaking back and forth with a certain frequency. If the frequency of this
    shaking decreases, what happens to the period?
    If the frequency of the shaking decreases, the object has less cycles per second. This means that the
    period increases, as it takes longer time to fulfill a cycle.

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    4. [6 points] You step out of the door to your house, and walk a distance of 100 m toward town in
    20 seconds. Then, you stop for 5 seconds while you look for your phone. Then you run back to
    your house in 10 seconds. Make a position versus time graph for this motion, and sketch it
    below. Don’t forget to put tick-marks on the axes and label the times and distances you are
    plotting.

    For the rest of this problem set, you need to watch a video of your professor making waves on a “PASCO
    Transverse Wave Motion Demonstrator”: https://youtu.be/35HTH2bZsUs
    This is a series of steel rods that are attached at their centers to a torsion wire. When one rod at the end is
    oscillated up and down, a sine-wave pattern propagates along all the other rods at a certain speed. In the
    video, the time is recorded in seconds since I first start oscillating the left end, and the metre-stick labels
    cm.
    5. Watch the video carefully, and fill in the table below with your best estimates of the speed and
    wavelength of each wave. [8 points]

    Wave Speed Wavelength

    Wave A 58.82cm/s 30cm

    Wave B 59.06cm/s 20cm

    Wave C 58.56cm/s 35cm

    Wave D 53.85cm/s 65cm

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    6. Next, we want to think about the frequency of the wave. This is the frequency of the oscillation
    which starts each wave at the left end. To find the frequency, count the number of oscillations
    that have happened when the video pauses. Note that it’s sometimes good to include fractional
    oscillations, so if something oscillates two complete times plus another half-oscillation, then the
    number of oscillations you should record is 2.5. From this, calculate the period of the
    oscillations. Once you have the period, “flip it” to get the frequency. [8 points]

    Number of
    Wave Period Frequency
    Oscillations

    Wave A 2.5 0.544s 1.84hz

    Wave B 3.5 0.36s 2.78hz

    Wave C 2 0.56s 1.79hz

    Wave D 1 1.56s 0.64hz

    7. (a) Rank the four waves from highest to lowest wavelength. [1 point]

    D, C, A, B

    (b) Rank the four waves from highest to lowest frequency. [1 point]

    B, A, C, D

    (c) What can you say about the relationship between the frequency and wavelength of a wave? [2
    points]

    Waves with higher wavelength will have lower frequency than waves with lower wavelength.
    Or... higher frequency waves have lower wavelengths.

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