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oneplusone
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Hello.
A person holds a rifle horizontally and fires at a target. The bullet has a muzzle speed of 20 m/s and the person hears the bullet strike the target 1.00s after firing it. The air temperature is 72 degrees F. What is the distance to the target?
speed of sound = 331 + 0.6*T (where T =temp in celcius)
Note
I tried solving the problem, and got a different answer than from my solutions manuel. I was just wondering how everyone else would solve it.
Homework Statement
A person holds a rifle horizontally and fires at a target. The bullet has a muzzle speed of 20 m/s and the person hears the bullet strike the target 1.00s after firing it. The air temperature is 72 degrees F. What is the distance to the target?
Homework Equations
speed of sound = 331 + 0.6*T (where T =temp in celcius)
Note
I tried solving the problem, and got a different answer than from my solutions manuel. I was just wondering how everyone else would solve it.