An explosion occurs at the end of a pier. The sound reaches the other end of the pier by traveling through three media: air, fresh water, and a slender metal handrail. The speeds of sound in air, water, and the handrail are 346, 1400, and 5480 m/s, respectively. The sound travels a distance of 142 m in each medium. (a) After the first sound arrives, how much later does the second sound arrive? (b) After the first sound arrives, how much later does the third sound arrive? (a) Number (b) Number Units Units

A man strikes one end of a thin rod with a hammer. The speed of sound in the rod is 15 times the speed of sound in air. A woman, at the other end with her ear close to the rod, hears the sound of the blow twice with a 0.17 s interval between; one sound comes through the rod and the other comes through the air alongside the rod. If the speed of sound in air is 347 m/s, what is the length of the rod? Number i Units

A cylinder completely filled with an unknown liquid has a radius of 1.50 cm, a length of 64.0 cm, and a mass of 357 g. An engineer performs an experiment to measure the speed of sound in the liquid. A small speaker emits a sound pulse at one end of the cylinder, which travels through the liquid and is detected by a microphone attached at the other end. The elapsed time between emission of the sound pulse and its detection by the microphone is measured by an electronic circuit to be 5.90 x 10-4 s. What the bulk modulus (in Pa) of the liquid in the cylinder? 3714 x What is the speed of sound in the material? How is it related to the bulk modulus and density of the material? What is the volume of a cylinder? Be careful with units in your calculations. Pa Need Help? Read It Submit Answer

On a warm summer day (32 degrees C), it takes 4.80 s for an echo to return from a cliff across a lake. On a winter day, it takes 5.20 s. The speed of sound in air is vAc (331 + 0.60T)m/s, where T is the temperature in degrees C. What is the temperature on the winter day?