A large meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 20.0 km/s and is not significantly slowed before entering the ocea

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n. (a) What is the Mach angle of the shock wave from the meteoroid in the lower atmosphere?

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Shalnov [3] · Answer 1 · 2023-12-23T00:00:57+03:00

The shock wave from the meteoroid in the lower atmosphere has a Mach angle of 0.948°.

(a) The meteoroid's speed $v_s=20 \mathrm{~km} / \mathrm{s}$

$=20 \times 10^3 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}$

Air sound wave speed $&v=331 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s} \\$

Speed of the shock wave in Mach $&\qquad \theta=\sin ^{-1}\left(\frac{v}{v_s}\right)$

$\begin{aligned}&=\sin ^{-1}\left(\frac{331 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}}{20 \times 10^3 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}}\right) \\&=0.948^{\circ}\end{aligned}$

Hence, 0.948° is the Mach angle of the shock wave from the meteoroid in the lower atmosphere.

<h3>What is the speed of the meteoroid?</h3>

A meteoroid's speed can be loosely broken down into three categories: slow, medium, and fast.

Slow meteors move around the sun at a leisurely pace of about 32 kilometers per second (20 miles per second).
Medium-speed meteors travel around the sun at approximately 50 kilometers per second (30 miles per second),
while fast meteors zoom past at over 120 kilometers per second (75 miles per second)!

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