At a baseball game, a physics student with a stopwatch sits behind the centre-field fence marked...

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At a baseball game, a physics student with a stopwatch sits behind the centre-field fence marked 136 m. He starts the watch when he sees the bat hit the ball and stops the watch when he hears the resulting sound. The time observed is 0.40 s. (a) How fast is the sound energy travelling? [2] (b) What is the air temperature? [2] At a baseball game, a physics student with a stopwatch sits behind the centre-field fence marked 136 m. He starts the watch when he sees the bat hit the ball and stops the watch when he hears the resulting sound. The time observed is 0.40 s. (a) How fast is the sound energy travelling? [2] (b) What is the air temperature? [2]

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a To calculate the speed of sound we can use the formula Speed Di... View the full answer