If the sea bed is 600 m down, how long will take to receive a sonar echo from it?
If the sea bed is 600 m down, how long will take to receive a sonar echo from it?
The sound has to reach the sea bed and come back so the total distance is 1200m. The speed of sound in water is 1500m/s (form wikipedia), so time=distance/velocity [latex]t=frac{1200m}{1500m/s}=0,8s[/latex]