Physics 5054 · O Level · Sound

Sound — practice question

A firework is fired straight up from the ground. At a height of $360\,\text{m}$, it bursts and gives off coloured light. A student standing on the ground beneath the firework wrongly times the interval between seeing the coloured light and hearing the explosion. The student records a value of $1.8\,\text{s}$. What speed of sound does the student's result imply?

  • A$200\,\text{m s}^{-1}$
  • B$360\,\text{m s}^{-1}$
  • C$400\,\text{m s}^{-1}$
  • D$650\,\text{m s}^{-1}$

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