Wave Motion 5 Question 15
15. A student is performing an experiment using a resonance column and a tuning fork of frequency . He is told that the air in the tube has been replaced by another gas (assume that the column remains filled with the gas). If the minimum height at which resonance occurs is , the gas in the tube is
(2014 Adv.)
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(a) Neon
(b) Nitrogen
(c) Oxygen
(d) Argon
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Solution:
- Minimum length
Now,
as
Now,
For monoatomic gas,
For diatomic gas,