Acoustics

Gap-fill exercise

  
Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
1. is a hearing aid, which is useful by people who have difficulty in hearing.
2. The frequency of the sound as received by a listener is different from the original frequency produced by the source whenever there is a relative motion between the source and the listener. This is known as .
3. In SONAR, by measuring the change in the between the sent signal and received signal, the speed of marine animals and submarines can be determined.
4. The frequency is the frequency of the sound as heard by the listener.
5. Rapid back and forth motion of a particle about its mean position is called .
6. is a unit of frequency.
7. Reflection of sound obeys the .
8. The abbreviation SONAR is .
9. The whistle of a fast moving train appears to increase in as it approaches a stationary listener.
10. The minimum time gap between the original sound and an echo must be second.