CSEE (Form 4) Transverse Pulses — practice questions

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What is a single disturbance that moves through a medium called?Read the answer and worked solution →A pulse travels from one end of a heavy rope to the other. What happens to the rope itself?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What is a single disturbance that moves through a medium called?

A wave
A crest
A pulse
A node

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Correct answer: C. A pulse

1. Flicking a stretched rope once sends one bump travelling along it. 2. A single disturbance that moves through a medium is called a pulse. 3. A wave is different because it is a whole train of pulses following one another. _Source: Siyavula Physical Sciences Grade 10 (Everything Science, CC BY 4.0), Chapter 7: Transverse pulses_

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A pulse travels from one end of a heavy rope to the other. What happens to the rope itself?

It travels along with the pulse
It is destroyed by the pulse
It becomes the pulse itself
It does not travel with the pulse

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Correct answer: D. It does not travel with the pulse

1. The rope is the medium, the substance in which the pulse moves. 2. Each part of the medium is moved out of its rest position for a moment and then returns. 3. The medium does not travel with the pulse as the pulse moves through it. 4. Thinking the rope moves along is the usual trap: only the disturbance moves along the rope. _Source: Siyavula Physical Sciences Grade 10 (Everything Science, CC BY 4.0), Chapter 7: Transverse pulses_