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1 ) At a baseball game, a spectator is 60.0 m away from the batter. How long doe

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Question

1 ) At a baseball game, a spectator is 60.0 m away from the batter. How long does it take the sound of the bat connecting with the ball to travel to the spectator's ears? The air temperature is 25.0° C.

2 ) A lightning flash is seen in the sky and 8.3 s later the boom of the thunder is heard. The temperature of the air is 24° C.

(a) What is the speed of sound at that temperature? [Hint: Light is an electromagnetic wave that travels at a speed of 3.00 108 m/s.]

(b) How far away is the lightning strike?

Explanation / Answer

1 .

t = distacne/ speed = 60 / 346 = 0.1734 s <------ans

since speed of sound at 25 C = 346 m /s ;

2 .

c = 331.3 ( 1 + C / 273.14 )

C is temperarue in degree C ,

putting C = 24 ,

( a )    c = 345.548 m /s ;   <----------ans

at 24 C , speed of sound = 345.549 m /s ;

d / 345.548 - d / ( 3 e 8 ) = 8.3 ;

( b )   or d = 2868.0600 m   <-------distance of the cloud ,