While taking a walk around your neighborhood, you see a flash of lightning hit the Earth in
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While taking a walk around your neighborhood, you see a flash of lightning hit the Earth in the distance. You immediately look at your watch and then hear thunder approximately 9 s later.
(a) How far away did the lightning strike the ground?
(b) Find a conversion factor for a thunder delay (measured in seconds counted) to the distance away of a corresponding lightning strike (in kilometers).
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College Physics Reasoning and Relationships
ISBN: 978-0840058195
2nd edition
Authors: Nicholas Giordano
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