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A 25 MW jet engine produces a sound level of 120 dB, the threshold of pain,...

A 25 MW jet engine produces a sound level of 120 dB, the threshold of pain, at 100 m from the engine. (Recall that the threshold of human hearing is 1 x 10-12 W/m2.)

(a) What portion of the jet engine power is lost in producing this sound?

(b) You are at your quiet summer house (ambient sound level is 40 dB) and you can just hear the sound of the same jet engine at the airport. How far away is your summer house from the airport?

(c) Is the result of your simple calculation reasonable?

(d) What is missing in your assumptions?

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