Question 31
A boy standing a distance from the foot of a tall cliff claps his hands and hears an echo 0.5s later. If the speed of sound is 340ms1, how far is he from the cliff?
Objective
Question details
- Exam body
- WAEC
- Subject
- Physics
- Year
- 1988
- Question no.
- #31
- Type
- Objective
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