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A person standing between two vertical cliffs and 480 m from the nearest cliff shouts. He hears the first echo after 3s and the second echo 2s later. Calculate:
- The speed of sound.
- The distance of the other cliff from the person
State one important property of waves used for echo depth sounding.
A person is standing at the seashore. An observer on the ship which is anchored in between a vertical cliff and the person on the shore fires a gun. The person on the shore hears two sounds, 2 seconds and 3 seconds after seeing the smoke of the fired gun. If the speed of sound in the air is 320 ms-1 then calculate:
1) the distance between the observer on the ship and the person on the shore.
2) the distance between the cliff and the observer on the ship.

The distance from one compression to nearest rarefaction is called wavelength.
The frequency is measured in second.
Match the following
| column A | column B |
| (A) Amplitude | (1) frequency |
| (B) Frequency | (2) amplitude |
| (C) Loudness | (3)maximum displacement on either side |
| (D) Pitch | (4) presence of other frequencies |
| (E) Waveform | (5) 1/ time period |
Name and define the characteristic which enables one to distinguish two sounds of same loudness, but of different frequencies, given by the same instrument.
Name the factors which determine the quality of a note.
Give a scientific reason.
In earlier times, people used to listen for the arrival of a distant train by putting their ear to the rail.
