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  • 19-03-2017
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In determining the distance to a cloud, a meteorologist in a tv station uses radar and notes that a time of 0.2 ms elapses between the sending and return of a radar pulse. how far away is the cloud?

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  • 19-03-2017

take the speed of light as 3.0010^8 m/s
d=vt
d=(3000000000.002 seconds)/2 (as this is twice the distance to the cloud)
d=300000m
300km


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