Measuring the speed of sound in air and solids
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- Q1Give the missing number in the following sentence. The accepted value for the speed of sound in air is ______ m/s.Users enter free textType an Answer30s
- Q2Which two of the below would allow a result to be considered accurate?Users sort answers between categoriesSorting30s
- Q3Starting with the measurement of distance, put the steps for the echo method of measuring the speed of sound into the correct order.Users link answersLinking30s
- Q4Andeep and Sofia are 100 m from a wall. Andeep makes a sound, Sofia measures the time for the echo to return as 0.64 s. Their result for the speed of sound, to 2 significant figures, is ______ m/s.Users enter free textType an Answer30s
- Q5Starting with the measurement of the rod length, put the steps for the method of measuring the speed of sound in a metal rod into the correct order.Users link answersLinking30s
- Q6Alex and Jun suspend a 1.20 m long metal rod on elastic bands. Jun strikes the rod and Alex uses a phone app to find the frequency of the sound: 2675 Hz. The speed of sound in the rod is ______ m/s.Users enter free textType an Answer30s