Inquiry into Physics
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Author: Ostdiek
Publisher: Cengage
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Chapter 1, Problem 2MIO
To determine
(a)
To check why during lightning the flash of light reaches us in a fraction of a second, but the sound (thunder) is delayed?
To determine
(b)
To obtain the relation between the distance of lightning strike to the number of seconds between light and the thunder sound.
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