Facts about Waves Multiple Choice Questions with Answers – PDF Download

MCQ 1: Sound waves and pushing and pulling a Slinky are the examples of:

1. mechanical waves
2. electromagnetic waves
3. transverse waves
4. longitudinal waves

MCQ 2: A pendulum bob moving from the extreme left to the extreme right and back to its starting position is said to be:

1. linear
2. periodic
3. translatory
4. circular

MCQ 3: A wave is made up of:

1. periodic motion
2. circulatory motion
3. translatory motion
4. exclatory motion

MCQ 4: When the pendulum bob moves from one point to another(left to right) and then back again(right to left) then it completes:

1. positive oscillation
2. quarter oscillation
3. half oscillation
4. one oscillation

MCQ 5: Light waves and water waves are the examples of:

1. mechanical waves
2. electromagnetic waves
3. transverse waves
4. longitudinal waves