Build the beat count
Exercise and reference answers
- Start
- Item
- Beats in one minute
- Value
- 75
- Steps
- Operation
- add
- Item
- Add a second minute
- Value
- 75
- Operation
- sub
- Item
- Less one full minute
- Value
- 75
- Other choices
- Explanation
- Amplitude is a distance and has nothing to do with a count.
- Item
- Divide by the amplitude
- Explanation
- The phase constant fixes the starting point, not the rate.
- Item
- Add the phase constant
- Instructions
- Tap the steps in order to build the total. Wrong taps explain themselves.
- Result
- Beats per minute
Explanation
_Source: syllabus Physics Part II, Ch 13 'Oscillations'_