Trying to determine its depth, a rock climber drops a pebble into a chasm and hears the pebble strike the ground 3.24s later.(a) If the speed of sound in air is 343 m/s at the rock climber's location, what is the depth of the chasm?51.35xYour response is within 10% of the correct value. This may be due to roundoff error, or you could have a mistake in your calculation. Carry out all intermediate resaccuracy to minimize roundoff error, m(b) What is the percentage of error that would result from assuming the speed of sound is infinite?0.175from the henintarh sten carefully

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Trying to determine its depth, a rock climber drops a pebble into a chasm and hears the pebble strike the ground 3.24s later.
(a) If the speed of sound in air is 343 m/s at the rock climber's location, what is the depth of the chasm?
51.35
x
Your response is within 10% of the correct value. This may be due to roundoff error, or you could have a mistake in your calculation. Carry out all intermediate res
accuracy to minimize roundoff error, m
(b) What is the percentage of error that would result from assuming the speed of sound is infinite?
0.175
from the henint
arh sten carefully

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