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QUESTION:

According to a rule-of-thumb, each five seconds between a lightning flash and the following thunder gives the distance to the flash in miles. (a) Assuming that the flash of light arrives in essentially no time at all, estimate the speed of sound in m/s from this rule. (b) What would be the rule for kilometers?

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QUESTION:

According to a rule-of-thumb, each five seconds between a lightning flash and the following thunder gives the distance to the flash in miles. (a) Assuming that the flash of light arrives in essentially no time at all, estimate the speed of sound in m/s from this rule. (b) What would be the rule for kilometers?

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Each 5s interval between lightning and thunder denotes distance of 1miles to the flash.

For 1miles time duration is

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