A cowboy stands on horizontal ground between two parallel vertical cliffs. He is not midway between the

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A cowboy stands on horizontal ground between two parallel vertical cliffs. He is not midway between the cliffs. He fires a shot and hears its echoes. The second echo arrives 1.92 s after the first and 1.47 s before the third. Consider only the sound traveling parallel to the ground and reflecting from the cliffs. Take the speed of sound as 340 m/s.
(a) What is the distance between the cliffs?
(b) What If? If he can hear a fourth echo, how long after the third echo does it arrive?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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