You are watching a lightning storm through your window. You see a big flash of light and you start counting the seconds: one potato, two potatoes, three potatoes... You hear loud thunder when you are at 13 in your counting. If sound travels one kilometer in three seconds, then how far is the storm from you?
You can get a pretty good approximation of the distance in miles, if you assume that sound travels one mile in five seconds. What is the approximate distance of the storm in miles? (You enter the unit of mile as "mi" without the quotation signs.)
You are watching a lightning storm through your window. You see a big flash of light...
At room temperature, sound travels at a speed of about 344 m/s in air. You see a distant flash of lightning and hear the thunder arrive 7.8 seconds later. How many miles away was the lightning strike? (Assume the light takes essentially no time to reach you.)
Suppose that during a thunder-storm you hear a clap of thunder 6.06 seconds after you see a lightning strike. How far away are you from the lightning strike? Assume room temperature air. Assume light travels so fast that you see the lightning nearly instantaneously.
Distance from a lightning strike A general rule of thumb is that if you see lightning, there is one mile for every five seconds before the thunder is heard. Check this against the actual speed of sound Speed of sound at 20 C is approximately 343 m/s.
USING PYTHON IDLE 3.4: NEED HELP WITH THIS PLEASE! :( Question #8: You want to determine the distance to lightning strikes during a storm. This can be measured using the time elapsed between seeing the lightning flash and hearing the thunder. You know that the speed of sound is approximately 1,100 ft/second and 1 mile is 5,280 feet. Write a program named q8.py that prompts the user for the number of lightning strikes to analyze and the number of seconds...
If you’re outside and you see lightening, you should always take cover. Then, it is interesting to figure out how far away the lightning really is. You can do this using the properties of sound waves. Assume the velocity of sound is 350 m/s as it travels through the air and you hear the thunder after you’ve seen the bolt of lightning in 2 seconds. How far away is the lightning in km? Select one: a. 17 km b. 1.2...