A sound pulse emitted underwater reflects off a school of fish and is detected at the same place 0.01 s later. how far away are the fish?

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Priscilla

11 September, 15:38

A sound pulse emitted underwater reflects off a school of fish and is detected at the same place 0.01 s later. how far away are the fish?

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Janiah Kaiser · Answer 1

In fresh water sound waves travel at 1497m/s at 25 degrees, I'll assume that's the characteristics of the water.

If it's 0.01s then you need to divide the speed by 100 to get the, 14.97, however it gets there and back in that time so you need to halve it.

7.485m