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Sound: Shock Cone

Q- A person looks directly overhead and sees a plane exactly 1.5 km above the ground flying faster than the speed of sound. By the time he hear the sonic boom, the plane has traveled a horizontal distance of 2.0 km.

(a) Find the angle of the shock cone.

(b) Find the speed of the plane (the Mach number). Assume the speed of sound is 330 m/s.

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