✔ 最佳答案
(a) Since period between successive hand clapping = 1/3 s
time for sound wave to trave from the boy to the wall and back = 1/3 s, so that he can hear the echo of his last hand-clap
hence distance of boy from the wall
= (330 x 1/3)/2 m = 55 m
(b) The echo from his first hand-clap arrives back to the boy 1/3 s after his third hand-clap, so that he can still hear 3 hand-claps after he has stopped clapping his hand.
Therefore, the echo takes 1 s to travel to the wall and back
hence distance = (330 x 1)/2 m = 165 m