Wave properties and behaviour

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Question 16
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A research submarine on the seabed transmits an acoustic pulse (sonar ping) to a stationary receiver buoy floating directly above it.

A scientific diagram showing a submarine transmitting an acoustic pulse to a buoy 2.40 km above.

The depth of the submarine below the buoy is 2.40 km.

The speed of sound in seawater is 1500 m/s.

The receiver buoy registers the ping with a processing latency (delay) of 0.24 s.

Calculate the receiver's processing latency as a percentage of the time the acoustic pulse takes to travel from the submarine to the buoy.

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