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16.9 Exercise 17

Avg difficulty 2.5

Your ear is capable of differentiating sounds that arrive at the ear just 1.00 ms apart. What is the minimum distance between two speakers that produce sounds that arrive at noticeably different times on a day when the speed of sound is 340 m/s?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 16.9 Waves, exercise 17

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