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3 years ago

Do compressional waves need a medium? If so which one would be the fastest ans slowest medium.

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Yes, compression waves need a medium. without a medium there is nothing to compress, hence, no wave. A fast medium like a gas (air) is easy to compress and allows waves to move through it easily. a slow medium, like a liquid, is still pretty fast, but not as fast as air.

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4 years ago

One small speaker is placed 3m to the east of a second speaker, and a listener stands 4m directly south of one of the speakers.

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Answer:

The value is $\lambda = 2 \ m$

Explanation:

From the question we are told that

The distance of the speaker from the second speaker to the east is $d = 3 \ m$

The distance of the speaker from the listener to the south is $a = 4 \ m$

Generally given that if the speaker move in any direction, their sound become louder , it then mean that the position of the listener of minimum sound (i.e a position of minima ) ,

Generally the path difference of the sound produce by both speaker at a position of minima is mathematically represented as

$y = \frac{\lambda}{2}$

Generally considering the orientation of the speakers and applying Pythagoras theorem we see that distance from the second speaker to the listener is mathematically represented as

$b = \sqrt{d^ 2 + a^2 }$

=> $b = \sqrt{3^ 2 + 4^2 }$

=> $b = 5$

Generally the path difference between the two speaker with respect to the listener is

$y = b - a$

=> $y = 5 - 4$

=> $y = 1$

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3 years ago

Transform active margins are associated with which type of boundary? Convergent Transform Divergent

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Answer:

Transform active margins are associated with which type of boundary?

Transform boundary

Explanation:

The transform boundary is a boundary where one plates(crust) slides past another plate horizontally. This kind of plate movement have been detected to exist between the interaction of the North pacific plates(continental plate) and the pacific plates(oceanic plates) .

At the transform margin the crust are usually broken. But overall crust are neither created nor destroyed . The transform margin region are active as it is marked by shallow-focus earthquakes .

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4 years ago

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Answer:

$y_{cg} = 1.03 m$

Explanation:

Given data:

weigh (head+arms + head) w_1 = 438 N

centre of gravity y_1= 1.28 m

weigh (upper leg) w_2 = 144 N

Center of gravity y_2 = 0.760 m

weigh ( lower leg + feet) = 87 N

centre of gravity = y_3 = 0.250 m

location of center of gravity $= \frac{w_1 y_1 + w_2 y_2 + w_3 y_3}{w_1 +W_2 +w_3}$

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4 years ago

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Explanation:

two types of sound wave

transverse wave
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3 years ago