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In a thunderstorm the formula M t 5.1 Mt5.1 gives the approximate distance M M in miles from a lightning strike if it takes t t seconds to hear the thunder after seeing the lightning. If you are 8.9 m?
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During a thunderstorm 3.4 s elapses between observing a lightning flash and hearing the resulting thunder Approximately how far away in kilometers and miles was the lightning flash?
As speed of light >> speed of sound, we can safely assume that the time taken for light to reach the observer is negligeable. Taking speed of sound to be 340 ms-1 The distance can be found out by the formula Distance = Speed * Time = 340 * 3.4 = 1156 m
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If the formula was correct for calculating the distance of a flash of lightning by counting the seconds from the flash to hearing the sound of the thunder, the distance would be ten miles (one second = one mile).However, the actual formula is: seconds divided by five equals distance of the lightning in miles. So a ten second delay means the lightning was about two miles away.This is because the light reaches you almost instantaneously (at the speed of light in air actually!), but sound travels at 343.14 meters per second (1,125.79 ft/s). This is 1,235.30 kilometers per hour (767.58 mph), which is about one mile in five seconds.For more information, See Related links below this box
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It is the same as the distance formula. DISTANCE FORMULA: d=square root of (x2-x1)^2+(y2-y1)^2
