JEE Main & Advanced Physics Wave Mechanics Question Bank Critical Thinking

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    A stone is hung in air from a wire which is stretched over a sonometer. The bridges of the sonometer are L cm apart when the wire is in unison with a tuning fork of frequency N. When the stone is completely immersed in water, the length between the bridges is l cm for re-establishing unison, the specific gravity of the material of the stone is

    A)            \[\frac{{{L}^{2}}}{{{L}^{2}}+{{l}^{2}}}\]                         

    B)            \[\frac{{{L}^{2}}-{{l}^{2}}}{{{L}^{2}}}\]

    C)            \[\frac{{{L}^{2}}}{{{L}^{2}}-{{l}^{2}}}\]                          

    D)            \[\frac{{{L}^{2}}-{{l}^{2}}}{{{L}^{2}}}\]

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

               Frequency of vib. is stretched string \[n=\frac{1}{2(\text{Length)}}\sqrt{\frac{T}{m}}\] When the stone is completely immersed in water, length changes but frequency doesn?t (\[\because \] unison reestablished) Hence length \[\propto \sqrt{T}\]Þ \[\frac{L}{l}=\sqrt{\frac{{{T}_{air}}}{{{T}_{water}}}}=\sqrt{\frac{V\rho g}{V(\rho -1)g}}\] (Density of stone = r and density of water =1) Þ \[\frac{L}{l}=\sqrt{\frac{\rho }{\rho -1}}\]Þ \[\rho =\frac{{{L}^{2}}}{{{L}^{2}}-{{l}^{2}}}\]


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