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(Solved): (9\%) Problem 10: Elephants can create and detect infrasonic sounds-sounds of frequencies lower tha ...
(9\%) Problem 10: Elephants can create and detect infrasonic sounds-sounds of frequencies lower than Elephant Trunk Modeled as about 20Hz-which can travel long distances. They create these sounds using the cavity that extends from their larynx to the tip of their long trunk. Consider this cavity as a cylindrical air column, of length 4.66m, Cylindrical Air Column that is closed at the larynx and open at the tip of the trunk. A 33% Part (a) Choose the image that shows the standing wave associated with the gas pressure for the first fundamental frequency f1? produced in the air column. Larynx (Closed End) ? Trunk tip (Open End) ? Part (b) Calculate the fundamental frequency of a standing wave in such an elephant's air column, in hertz. Take the speed of sound in air to be 352m/s. A 33\% Part (c) With the same speed of sound as in part (b), 352m/s, how long, in meters, would an elephant's air column have to be to maintain a standing wave at a fundamental frequency of 5.7Hz ? (You might consider the likeliness of the occurrence of such a frequency in nature.)