Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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ISBN: 9781259587399
Author: Eugene Hecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 23, Problem 27SP
It’s often claimed that for every second of delay between seeing a flash of lightning and hearing the thunder, it means the strike was 1/5 mile away. Is that reasonable? How far does sound travel in 5.00 s at an air temperature of 20.0 °C?
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Ch. 23 - 22. Three seconds after a gun is fired, the person...Ch. 23 - 23. What is the speed of sound in air when the air...Ch. 23 - 24. A longitudinal wave with a frequency of 100 Hz...Ch. 23 - 25. If the speed of sound in air is found to be...Ch. 23 - 26. An autofocusing camera sends out a pulse of...Ch. 23 - 27. It’s often claimed that for every second of...Ch. 23 - 28. A shell fired at a target 800 m away was heard...Ch. 23 - 29. In an experiment to determine the speed of...Ch. 23 - 23.30 [II] A disk has 40 holes around its...Ch. 23 - 23.31 [I] The bulk modulus of seawater is 2.1 GPa....
Ch. 23 - 32. Use Eq. (23.2) to determine the approximate...Ch. 23 - 33. Compute the speed of sound in helium gas at...Ch. 23 - 23.34 [II] Determine the speed of sound in carbon...Ch. 23 - 23.35 [II] Compute the molecular mass M of a gas...Ch. 23 - 23.36 [II] At S.T.P., the speed of sound in air is...Ch. 23 - Prob. 37SPCh. 23 - 23.38 [II] A bar of dimensions and mass 2.00 kg...Ch. 23 - 39. Find the speed of compression waves in a metal...Ch. 23 - Prob. 40SPCh. 23 - 23.41 [I] The level of normal speech exchanged...Ch. 23 - 42. The threshold of human hearing is an intensity...Ch. 23 - 23.43 [II] A machine produces a sound level of 80...Ch. 23 - 44. Suppose the intensity of sound increases by a...Ch. 23 - 45. If the intensity level of sound is to be...Ch. 23 - 46. Suppose we add ±3.0 dB to the intensity level...Ch. 23 - 23.47 [I] If the intensity of sound changes, the...Ch. 23 - 23.48 [I] Redo Problem 23.45 using Eq. (23.9).
Ch. 23 - 49. A sound has an intensity of 5.0 × 10−7 W/m2....Ch. 23 - 50. A person riding a power mower may be subjected...Ch. 23 - 23.51 [II] A rock band might easily produce a...Ch. 23 - 23.52 [II] A whisper has an intensity level of...Ch. 23 - 23.53 [II] What sound intensity is 3.0 dB louder...Ch. 23 - 23.54 [II] Calculate the intensity of a sound wave...Ch. 23 - 23.55 [II] What is the amplitude of vibration in a...Ch. 23 - 23.56 [II] One sound has an intensity level of...Ch. 23 - 23.57 [II] An organ pipe is tuned to emit a...Ch. 23 - 23.58 [I] A locomotive moving at 30.0 m/s...Ch. 23 - 23.59 [II] Two cars are heading straight at each...Ch. 23 - 23.60 [II] To determine the speed of a harmonic...Ch. 23 - 23.62 [II] The two sources shown in Fig. 23-4 emit...
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