JEE Advanced Waves and Sound questions with solutions
Travelling and standing waves, sound intensity, resonance and Doppler effect. 30 questions from our 2016–2025 JEE Advanced pattern papers, from the Class 11 Physics syllabus. Each has the answer and a full solution.
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JEE Advanced 2025
- A source emitting sound of frequency 500 Hz moves at 20 m s^-1 directly towards a large flat vertical wall. A stationary observer stands on the line…
- A pipe of length 1.0 m is used in two ways, first closed at one end and then open at both ends. The speed of sound is 340 m s^-1; neglect end…
- A source emitting sound of frequency 680 Hz moves at 10 m s^-1 directly towards a large, stationary plane wall. A stationary observer stands on the…
JEE Advanced 2024
JEE Advanced 2023
- A source emits a steady note of frequency 600 Hz while moving at 30 m s^-1 directly towards a large plane wall. A stationary observer stands on the…
- Sound travels at speed v in the air of each pipe described in List-I; end effects are negligible. List-II gives frequencies in units of v/L. List-I…
- A string of length 1.20 m is fixed at one end and its other end is driven by a tuning fork of constant frequency (treat both ends as nodes). The…
JEE Advanced 2022
JEE Advanced 2021
- Paragraph 2: Two strings are joined end to end and stretched under the same tension T=40 N. The left string has linear mass density μ1=4.0 g m^-1 and…
- In a Young's double-slit set-up in air, slit separation is d=0.50 mm, screen distance D=1.0 m and wavelength λ=600 nm. A thin transparent film of…
- Paragraph 1: A stationary observer stands on a straight line perpendicular to a large flat wall, with a point source of sound between the observer…
JEE Advanced 2020
- A pipe of length 0.85 m is closed at one end and open at the other. The speed of sound in the air in it is 340 m s^-1 at the room temperature. A…
- In a Young's double-slit experiment the whole apparatus is immersed in a liquid of refractive index 1.25. A thin transparent film of refractive index…
- A wire of length 0.80 m, mass per unit length 0.010 kg m^-1, is fixed at both ends under tension 64 N. A closed-at-one-end air column of length 1.70…
JEE Advanced 2019
- A source emitting sound of frequency 680 Hz moves at 20 m s^-1 directly towards a large flat wall. A stationary observer stands behind the source on…
- In a Young's double slit experiment the slit separation is 0.30 mm and the screen is 1.5 m from the slits. A thin transparent film of refractive…
- In a Young's double-slit experiment the slit separation is d=0.50 mm, the screen is D=1.0 m from the slits and the wavelength in air is λ=500 nm. A…
- A tuning-fork source of frequency 440 Hz moves at 10 m s^-1 directly towards a large stationary wall. A stationary observer standing behind the…
JEE Advanced 2018
JEE Advanced 2017
JEE Advanced 2016
- A pipe of length 0.85 m, closed at one end and open at the other, is tested with tuning forks of various frequencies at an air temperature of 300 K…
- In a Young's double-slit experiment the slit separation is 0.50 mm, the screen is 1.5 m away and monochromatic light of wavelength 600 nm is used. A…
- A Young's double-slit apparatus is completely immersed in a liquid of refractive index 4/3. The source emits light of vacuum wavelength 600 nm. A…
- A stationary source emits sound of frequency 680 Hz towards a large flat wall that moves towards the source at 10 m s^-1. The speed of sound in still…
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