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Sonometer

1) The document describes an experiment using a sonometer to study the relationship between the frequency and length of a vibrating wire under constant tension. 2) The procedure involves using tuning forks of known frequencies and finding the resonant length of the wire that produces the same sound, then measuring the lengths and calculating the reciprocal of the lengths. 3) The results show that a graph of frequency plotted against the reciprocal of length produces a straight line, indicating that frequency is inversely proportional to resonant length, confirming the relationship described by the formula F ∝ 1/l.

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Sonometer

1) The document describes an experiment using a sonometer to study the relationship between the frequency and length of a vibrating wire under constant tension. 2) The procedure involves using tuning forks of known frequencies and finding the resonant length of the wire that produces the same sound, then measuring the lengths and calculating the reciprocal of the lengths. 3) The results show that a graph of frequency plotted against the reciprocal of length produces a straight line, indicating that frequency is inversely proportional to resonant length, confirming the relationship described by the formula F ∝ 1/l.

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Sonometer

Aim
To study the relation between frequency and length of a given wire under constant
tension using sonometer.
Materials required
A sonometer, a set of tuning forks of known frequency, 0.5 kg weight hanger, some
0.5kg slotted weights, rubber pad, paper rider.
Formula
F ∝ 1/l where F- frequency and l- resonance length
Procedure
To find the relation frequency and length
• Place the sonometer on the table.
• Make sure that the pulley is frictionless. If you feel any friction, oil them.
• Stretch the wire by placing a suitable maximum load on the weight hanger.
• Move the wooden bridges outward, so that the length of wire between the
bridges is maximum.
• Take a tuning fork of known frequency. Make it vibrate by strike its prong with
a rubber pad. Bring it near the ear.
• Pluck the sonometer wire and leave it to vibrate.
• Compare the sounds produced by tuning fork and sonometer wire. (Sound
which has low pitch has less frequency).
• Gently adjust the bridges for decreasing the length of wire, till the two sounds
appear alike.
• Put an inverted v shaped paper rider on the middle of the wire.
• Vibrate the tuning fork and touch the lower end of its handle with sonometer
board. The wire vibrates due to resonance and the paper ride falls.
• Measure the length of the wire between the bridges using a meter scale. It is
the resonant length and record it in the length decreasing column.
• Now, bring the bridges closer and then slowly increase the length of the wire
till the paper rider falls.
• Measure the length of wire and record it in length increasing column.
• Repeat the above steps with forks of other frequencies and find resonant
length each time.

Observation
To find the relation between frequency and length constant tension on the
wire. T=______kg

S. NO Frequency of Resonant length of wire 1/l (cm-1)


tuning fork used
f(Hz) Length Length Mean
increasing decreasing l= (l1 + l2)
l2 (cm) l2 (cm) 2
1. 480 45 45.2 45.1 0.022

2. 512 42.4 42.2 42.3 0.026


3. 320 67.5 67.7 67.6 0.014
Rough graph:

Result
The frequency v/s reciprocal of length graph is a straight line, which indicates that,
frequency inversely proportional to resonant length.

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