A person is listening to a tone of sitting at a distance of from the source of the sound. What is the distance between successive compressions from the source? The velocity of sound is .
Step 1: Given:
Frequency,
Velocity,
Distance between source and observer,
Step 2: Calculate the wavelength:
…… (Here, is the wavelength)
Thus, the wavelength is .
Step 3: Calculate the distance between successive compressions:
Since the distance between source and observer is , the no. Of consecutive compressions, the observer is away from are
Distance between two successive compressions
Distance between two successive compressions
Thus, the distance between two successive compressions is .