Organ Pipes & Resonance Tube
A pipe open at both ends of length 1.5 m is dipped in water such that the second overtone of vibrating air column is resonating with a tuning fork of frequency 330 Hz. If speed of sound in air is 330 m/s then the length of the pipe immersed in water is (Neglect and correction)
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Answer: (b)
- Dipped in water, the pipe acts as a closed pipe of air length
- 2nd overtone of closed pipe = 5th harmonic:
- Immersed length
- So the answer is (b) 0.25 m.