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JEE Main 2007Waves and Sound Question with Solution

JEE Main 2007

Question

A sound absorber attenuates the sound level by . The intensity decreases by a factor of

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D

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$\begin{aligned} & \mathrm{B}_1=10 \log \left(\frac{\mathrm{I}}{\mathrm{I}_0}\right) \\ & \mathrm{B}_2=\log \left(\frac{\mathrm{I}^{\prime}}{\mathrm{I}_0}\right) \end{aligned}$ given $\begin{aligned} & 20=10 \log \left(\frac{\mathrm{I^{\prime}}}{\mathrm{I}}\right) \\ & \mathrm{I}^{\prime}=100 \mathrm{I} \end{aligned}$

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