Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 14 - Waves and Sound - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 496: 93

Answer

$6.72\times 10^6m$

Work Step by Step

We know that $I=(\frac{r_1}{r_{\circ}})^2 10^{\frac{\beta}{10dB}}$ This simplifies to: $r_{\circ}=r_110^{\frac{\beta}{20dB}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $r_{\circ}=(3.0m)10^{\frac{127dB}{20}}$ $\implies r_{\circ}=6.72\times 10^6m$
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