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You place your ear onto a steel railroad track and hear the sound of a distant train through the rails Δt = 3.2 seconds before you do through the air. The speed of sound in steel is vs = 6100 m/s, and the air temperature is 21° C.
What is the distance, D, of the train in meters?
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