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Standing Waves in Strings for NEET: 11 solved questions

Real NEET paper questions on standing waves in strings, part of waves. Each opens with the options, the correct answer and a step-by-step solution. Papers run from 1993 to 2015. No sign-in needed to read them.

What this topic asks

• Sonometer — 6 questions
• Nodes, antinodes and harmonics — 5 questions

All 11 questions with solutions

• A string is stretched between fixed points separated by 75.0 cm. It is observed to have resonant frequencies… NEET 2015
• The length of the wire between two ends of a sonometer is 100 cm. What should be the positions of two bridges… NEET 2013 Karnataka
• When a string is divided into three segments of length ℓ₁, ℓ₂ and ℓ₃ the fundamental frequencies of these thr… NEET 2012
• If the tension and diameter of a sonometer wire of fundamental frequency n is doubled and density is halved t… NEET 2001
• A string is cut into three parts, having fundamental frequencies n₁, n₂, n₃ respectively. Then original funda… NEET 2000
• A standing wave having 3 nodes and 2 antinodes is formed between two atoms having a distance 1.21 A between t… NEET 1998
• Standing waves are produced in 10 m long stretched string. If the string vibrates in 5 segments and wave velo… NEET 1997
• The length of a sonometer wire AB is 110 cm. Where should the two bridges be placed from A to divide the wire… NEET 1995
• A wave of frequency 100 Hz travels along a string towards its fixed end. When this wave travels back, after r… NEET 1994
• A stationary wave is represented by y=A sin(100t)cos(0.01x), where y and A are in millimetres, t is in second… NEET 1994
• A stretched string resonates with tuning fork frequency 512 Hz when length of the string is 0.5 m. The length… NEET 1993