A railway tunnel is long

PHYSICS · Subjective · CBSE · Physics · Sound · Sound

Problem

A railway tunnel is 660 m660\,\text{m} long. An engineer standing at one entrance fires a starting pistol and listens for the echo from the far end. (i) If the speed of sound in the air inside the tunnel is 340 m/s340\,\text{m/s}, calculate the time after which the echo is heard. (ii) Later that night the temperature falls, reducing the speed of sound in the tunnel air to 332 m/s332\,\text{m/s}. Calculate the new time interval after which the engineer would hear the echo.

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