Question

A slinky was measured to carry a longitudinal wave 10 tiles (on the floor) per second. One tile is 30 cm. What is the speed of this wave? In your answer , use millimeters and scientific notation

Answer 1

(10 tiles/sec) · (30 cm/tile) = 300 cm/sec

That's 3000 mm/sec

That's 3 x 10³ mm/sec