Question

Please answer, it's really urgent A boy performs an experiment to measure the speed of sound. He stands 100 meters away form a large wall and claps his hands to make an echo. He claps again as soon as he was the echo, He does this ten times, each time clapping an soon as he hears the echo. The time between the first clap and the tenth echo a recorded. Why it better to time ten echoes together rather than just one echo?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

The speed of sound is very high . It is about 340 m /s . In one echo , it takes approximately

2 x 100 / 340

= .6 sec

In 10 simultaneous echo , it will take 6 s . It is difficult to measure .6 sec but to measure 6 s is easy and it can be made with greater precision , so we can calculate velocity of sound with great precision .

This is the reason why , instead of one echo , 10 echos are made and duration of 10 echo is measured , rather than making one echo and measuring time of one echo .