Echo
 

Echo problem 18


In an experiment to measure the speed of sound, a student uses a stopwatch to find the time taken for a sound wave to travel from point X to a vertical wall at point Y and back to point X to receive the echo of the sound. She does this six times.




The table below shows her results.



Which value for the time should be used to calculate the speed of sound?







 

main author and content editor: Daniel Owoyomi