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Oscillation

1) The amplitude of a plane progressive wave is 0.5 cm. Find the displacement of the point at a
distance x = λ/6 from the source at time t = T/3.

2) A simple harmonic motion is represented by 𝑦=10 𝑆𝑖n (1.5𝑡−𝜋/3), where y is measured in


meters, t in seconds and the phase angle in radians. Calculate (i) the frequency, (ii) the time
period and (iii) the maximum displacement.

3) A simple harmonic oscillator has an amplitude A and time period T. The time required by it to
travel from x = A to x = A/2 is…

4) The amplitude and frequency of an object executing simple harmonic motion are 0.9cm and 12
Hz respectively. What is the velocity of the object at displacement 0.008m? What is the
maximum velocity of the object?

5) The amplitude and frequency of an object executing SHM are 0.01 m and 12 Hz, respectively.
What is the maximum velocity of the object?What is the velocity of the object at displacement
0.005 m?
6) When the displacement in SHM is one-half the amplitude a, what fraction of the total energy is
( a) Kinetic energy ( b) Potential energy?
7) At what displacement the kinetic and potential energies are equal?
8) If the amplitude of a simple harmonic oscillator is doubled, how are the following quantities
affected? (a) Frequency (b) phase constant(c) maximum speed (d) maximum acceleration (e)
total energy

9) A particle of mass 100 g executing SHM takes 0.6 seconds to move between its two turning
points, which are 24 cm apart. Find the angular frequency and the amplitude of the oscillation,
and the total mechanical energy.

10) A block whose mass is 680 g is fastened to a spring whose spring constant is 65 N/m. The
block is pulled a distance x= 11 cm from its equilibrium position at x= 0 on a frictionless
surface and released from rest at t= 0.
a. What are the angular frequency, the frequency and the period of the resulting motion?
b. What is the amplitude of the oscillation
c. What is the maximum speed

11) A spring hung vertically, is found to be stretched by 0.02 m from its equilibrium position when
a force of 4 N acts on it. Then a 2 kg body is attached to the end of the spring and is pulled 0.04
m from its equilibrium position along the vertical line. The body is then released and it
executes simple harmonic motion. Find 1) force constant 2) force executed by the spring on the
mass 3) period and frequency of oscillation 4) amplitude 5) maximum velocity.
Oscillation

12) An oscillator consists of a block of mass 0.50 kg connected to a spring. When set into
oscillation with amplitude of 35 cm, the oscillator repeats its motion every 0.5 s. Find the (a)
period (b) frequency (c) angular frequency (d) spring constant (e) maximum speed (f)
magnitude of the maximum force on the block from the siring.

13) An object undergoing SHM takes 0.25 s to travel from one point of zero velocity to the next
such point. The distance between those points is 36 cm. Calculate the (a) period (b) frequency
(c) amplitude of the motion.

14) Find the mechanical energy of a block- spring system having a spring constant of 1.3 N/cm and
oscillation amplitude of 2.4 cm.

15) If a particle of mass 2gm is initially displaced through a small distance and then released, find
whether the motion is oscillatory or not when the particle is subjected to an elastic force of 50
dynes/cm and a frictional force of 12 dyne/cm.sec. If the motion is oscillatory, find its time
period.

16) A particle of mass 40 gm experiences only a damping force proportional to its velocity. If its
velocity is decreased from 100 cm/sec to 10 cm/sec in 23 sec, calculate (i) relaxation time (ii)
the damping force when its velocity is 50 cm/sec, (iii) the time in which the kinetic energy is
reduced to one-tenth of its initial value.
17) An underdamped harmonic oscillator has its amplitude reduced to (1/10)th of its initial value
after 100 oscillations. If the time period is 2 sec, calculate the damping constant.
18) A block of mass 1 kg attached to a spring is made to oscillate with an initial amplitude of 12
cm. After 2 minutes the amplitude decreases to 6 cm. Determine the value of the damping
constant. [Hints: ln 2 = 0.693]
19) The amplitude of a damped oscillator becomes half in 2s. The amplitude after 8s of oscillation
will be…
20) Amplitude of a mass-spring system, which is executing simple harmonic motion decreases with
time. If mass = 500 g, Decay constant = 20 gm/sec the how much time is required for the
amplitude of the system to drop to half of its initial value?

21) If the quality factor Q of a sonometer is 2*103.on plucking it executes 240 vibrations per
second. Calculate the time in which the amplitude decreases to 1/e2 of its initial value.

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