Physics WPH01: Behaviour of Waves Topical Past Paper Questions

A student was setting up audio equipment in a large hall. He positioned two identical loudspeakers a few metres apart and played a note of frequency 300 Hz through the loudspeakers. When the 300Hz note was playing the student noticed that the loudness varied at different position…

The quality of the sound heard by listeners at a concert depends on the design of the concert hall. (a) Two loudspeakers, $ S_1 $ and $ S_2 $, are connected to the same source. They are placed a small distance apart in a concert hall. The loudness of the sound heard from the spea…

In a cinema, sound normally comes from a number of speakers placed at different positions around the room. (a) Explain how sound travels through the air. (3) (b) What a listener hears depends on the position of the source of the sound. The diagrams show a source of sound when it…