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a child standing in front of high cliff make a loud sound, and hears an echo after 30 seconds. Calculate how far is the child from the cliff?
7 years ago

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scott
find the speed of sound in air ... it is temperature dependent

multiply the speed of sound by the time to find the distance the sound travels
... the cliff distance is half of the total travel
7 years ago

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