Helwan University 1st √ Academic year

Faculty of Engineering – Mataria – Cairo 2nd 2023/2024

Second Year Architecture Engineering Program Date of Exam: 27/12/2023
Course Name: Physics (3) Time allowed: 3 Hours
Course Code: BSE102 ‫كلية الهندسة بالمطرية‬ Maximum Degree: 50 Marks

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Model A
MCQ: Choose the correct answer after making suitable calculations for the following:

1) An ideal massless spring with a spring constant of 2.00 N/m is attached to an object of 75.0 g. The system
has a small amount of damping. If the amplitude of the oscillations decreases from 10.0 cm to 5.00 cm in
15.0 s, what is the magnitude of the damping constant b?
a) 5.21 gm/s b) 6.93 gm/s c) 7.62 gm/s d) 8.57 gm/s
2) An object of mass of 2.0 kg hangs from an ideal massless spring with a spring constant of 50 N/m. An
oscillating driving force 𝑭𝐟 = (𝟒. 𝟖 𝐍) 𝐜𝐨𝐬[(𝟑. 𝟎 𝐫𝐚𝐝/𝐬)𝒕] is applied to the object. What is the amplitude of
the resulting oscillations? You can neglect damping.
a) 0.3 m b) 0.24 m c) 0.15 m d) 0.10 m
3) A body of mass 3 Kg is attached to a spring with a spring constant of 600 N/m. A driving periodic force is
applied to the object for producing forced oscillations. The forced displacement of the object is described
by 𝒙(𝒕) = (𝟒 𝐜𝐦) 𝐜𝐨𝐬[(𝝅 𝒓𝒂𝒅/𝒔)𝒕 − 𝟎. 𝟐 𝒓𝒂𝒅]. The damping constant is
a) 36.80 Kg/s b) 2.13 Kg/s c) 12.27 Kg/s d) 0.71 Kg/s
4) A mass of 2 Kg is attached to a spring that has a spring constant equal to 600 N/m. The damping constant
that is required to produce critical damping is
a) 113.14 Kg/s b) 69.28 Kg/s c) 23.25 Kg/s d) 2.67 Kg/s
5) The potential energy PE, in Joule, in an ideal mass spring system is given by 𝑷𝑬 = 𝟏𝟓𝟎 – 𝒗𝟐 in SI units,
where 𝒗 is the velocity of the moving mass, in m/s. If the amplitude of the motion is 0.5 m, what is the
angular velocity of the system?
a) 105.4 rad/s b) 63.2 rad/s c) 35.8 rad/s d) 24.5 rad/s
6) The motion of a particle connected to a light spring is described by 𝒙(𝒕) = (𝟐𝟎 𝒄𝒎) 𝒄𝒐𝒔(𝝅𝒕). At what
position is the potential energy equal to the kinetic energy?
a) ± 14.14 cm b) ± 10.0 cm c) ± 9.14 cm d) ± 5.21 cm
7) A standing wave having four nodes is set up in a string fixed at both ends. If the frequency of the wave is
doubled, how many antinodes will there be?
a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 6
8) The function 𝒚(𝒙, 𝒕) = (𝟏𝟓. 𝟎 𝒄𝒎) 𝐜𝐨𝐬(𝝅𝒙 − 𝟏𝟓𝝅𝒕), with x in meters and t in seconds, describes a wave on
a taut string. What is the transverse speed for a point on the string at an instant when that point has the
transverse displacement y = 12.0 cm?
a) 424.11 cm/s b) 254.07 cm/s c) 28.27 cm/s d) 9.00 cm/s
9) A sinusoidal wave is traveling to the right (in the positive 𝒙 direction) with angular frequency of 8 rad/s
𝝏𝟐 𝒚 𝝏𝟐 𝒚
and amplitude of 0.5 cm. The relation between 𝟐 (on 𝒚 −axis) and 𝟐 (on 𝒙 − axis) is straight line with
𝝏𝒕 𝝏𝒙
slope of 4 m2/s2. If the transverse displacement of the particle located at 𝒙 = 0 is 0.5 cm at time 𝒕 = 0, find
the transverse velocity of the particle located at 𝒙 = 2 m at time 𝒕 = 4 s.
a) 9.2 cm/s b) 4.6 cm/s c) 2.3 cm/s d) 3.62 cm/s
10) A thin 2.00 m string of mass 50.0 g is fixed at both ends and under a tension of 70.0 N. If it is set into
small-amplitude oscillation, what is the frequency of the first harmonic mode?
a) 6.61 Hz b) 13.23 Hz c) 26.5 Hz d) 52.9 Hz
11) A 10.6 Kg object oscillates at the end of a vertical spring that has a spring constant of 𝟐. 𝟎𝟓 × 𝟏𝟎𝟒 N/m.
The effect of air resistance is represented by the damping coefficient b = 3 Kg/s. What is the periodic time
of the motion?
a) 0.95 s b) 2.76 s c) 0.02 s d) 0.14 s

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 12) Standing waves are produced by the interference of two traveling sinusoidal waves, each of frequency
100 Hz. The distance from the 2nd node to the 5th node is 60 cm. The speed of each of the two original waves
is:
a) 50 m/s b) 40 m/s c) 30 m/s d) 20 m/s
13) Use the linear wave equation to find the propagation speed of the travelling wave 𝒚(𝒙, 𝒕) =
𝟑𝟎 (𝟎. 𝟕𝒙 + 𝟒𝒕)−𝟐 where x and y are in meters and t is in seconds.
a) 571.4 cm/s b) 280 cm/s c) 40 cm/s d) 17.5 cm/s
14) Two sinusoidal waves have the same frequency, the same amplitude 𝑨, and travel in the same direction in
the same medium. If they differ in phase by 𝟓𝟎°, the amplitude of the resultant wave is given by
a) 𝟎. 𝟔𝑨 b) 𝟏. 𝟑𝑨 c) 𝟎. 𝟗𝑨 d) 𝟏. 𝟖𝑨
15) A standing wave is formed on a taut string of length 4.35 m and mass 2 gm. The string is stretched by a
weight of 0.19 Kg. What is the frequency of the third overtone?
a) 29.26 Hz b) 36.57 Hz c) 21.94 Hz d) 14.63 Hz
16) A taut string for which µ = 𝟓 × 𝟏𝟎−𝟐 𝒌𝒈/𝒎 is under a tension of 80 N. How much power must be supplied
to the string to generate sinusoidal waves at a frequency of 60 Hz and an amplitude of 6 cm?
a) 85.27 W b) 255.82 W c) 341.09 W d) 511.64 W
17) Two identical machines are positioned the same distance from a worker. The sound intensity delivered
by each operating machine at the worker’s location is 𝟐 × 𝟏𝟎−𝟕 𝑾/𝒎𝟐. What is the sound level heard by
the worker when the two machines are operating?
a) 56.02 dB b) 53.01 dB c) 50.03 dB d) 47.04 dB
18) The sound intensity 5.0 m from point source is 0.50 W/m2. The power output of the source is
a) 12 W b) 39 W c) 79 W d) 157 W
19) A source emits sound with a frequency of 1000 Hz. Both it and an observer are moving toward each
other with the same speed 100 m/s. If the speed of sound is 340 m/s, the observer hears sound with a
frequency of
a) 1000 Hz b) 545.5 Hz c) 1833.3 Hz d) 3400 Hz
20) Two cars A and B are moving away from each other in opposite directions. Both the cars are moving with a speed
of 10 m/s with respect to the ground. If an observer in car A detects a frequency 1000 Hz of the sound coming from
car B, what is the natural frequency of the sound source in car B? (Speed of sound in air = 340 m/s)
a) 942.9 Hz b) 1060.6 Hz c) 970.6 Hz d) 1030.3 Hz
21) What is the amplitude of vibration of the particles of air through which a sound wave of intensity 𝟑. 𝟎 × 𝟏𝟎−𝟔 𝑾/
𝒎𝟐 and frequency 1.0 kHz is passing? (Density of air = 1.2 kg/m3 and speed of sound in air = 330 m/s)
a) 1.96 × 10−8 m b) 1.26 × 10−8 m c) 2.63 × 10−6 m d) 3.31 × 10−8 m
22) At a distance of 2.00 m from a point source of sound, the intensity level is 80.0 dB. What will be the
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intensity level at a distance of 4.00 m from this source? The lowest detectable intensity is 10-12 W/m .
a) 77 dB b) 74 dB c) 60 dB d) 40 dB
23) A pipe that is 10.0 m long and 10.0 cm in diameter contains olive oil. The density of the olive oil is 890
3 9
kg/m and the bulk modulus is 1.3 × 10 Pa. A 3.4 Hz longitudinal wave is transmitted in the oil. How many
milliseconds does it take for the wave to travel the length of the pipe in the oil?
a) 2.73 ms b) 4.86 ms c) 8.27 ms d) 12.31 ms
24) As you stand by the side of the road, a car approaches you at a constant speed, sounding its horn, and
you hear a frequency of 80.0 Hz. After the car goes by, you hear a frequency of 60.0 Hz. What is the speed
of the car? The speed of sound in the air is 343 m/s.
a) 64 m/s b) 49 m/s c) 36 m/s d) 25 m/s
25) If the sound level is increased by 10 db, the intensity increases by a factor of
a) 2 b) 5 c) 10 d) 20

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