Question: At a pistol range, a microphone is placed between a shooter and the target so that when a bullet is fired we can hear its

At a pistol range, a microphone is placed between a shooter and the target so that when a bullet is fired we can hear its sonic boom. A bullet passes by the microphone at a speed of Mach 2. 1. The microphone picks up the sonic boom \(0.0021 \mathrm{~s}\) after the bullet passes above the microphone.

(a) What is the angle of the shock wave?

(b) What is the vertical distance between bullet and microphone?

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