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A student is listening in her dorm room to the radio broadcast of a Red Sox-Yank

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Question

A student is listening in her dorm room to the radio broadcast of a Red Sox-Yankee baseball game at Fenway Park while doing her physics homework. In the bottom of the fourth inning a thunderstorm approaching from a generally westward direction makes its presence known in three ways: (1) The student sees a lightning flash (and hears the electromagnetic pulse on her radio receiver); (2) 3.00s later, she hears the thunder over the radio; (3) 4.43 s after the lightning flash, the thunder rattles her window. By a previous careful measurement she knows that she is 1.12 km due north of the broadcast booth at the ballpark. The speed of sound is 344 m/s. where did the lightning flash occur in relation to the ballpark?
A) South-West B) West C) North-West D) North A student is listening in her dorm room to the radio broadcast of a Red Sox-Yankee baseball game at Fenway Park while doing her physics homework. In the bottom of the fourth inning a thunderstorm approaching from a generally westward direction makes its presence known in three ways: (1) The student sees a lightning flash (and hears the electromagnetic pulse on her radio receiver); (2) 3.00s later, she hears the thunder over the radio; (3) 4.43 s after the lightning flash, the thunder rattles her window. By a previous careful measurement she knows that she is 1.12 km due north of the broadcast booth at the ballpark. The speed of sound is 344 m/s. where did the lightning flash occur in relation to the ballpark?
A) South-West B) West C) North-West D) North
A) South-West B) West C) North-West D) North

Explanation / Answer

north - west

Because thunder storm is in West of the student and ballpark is in South of the student.

Now in relation with ballpark thunderstorm is in North - west.