Question

One busy route across the Atlantic Ocean is about 5570 km. The now retired Concord, capable of flying at twice the speed of sound, was used for traveling such routes. (a) Roughly how long did it take for a one way flight? (use 343 m/'s for the speed of sound) (b) Compare this time to the time taken by a subsonic jet flying at 0.75 times the speed of sound by finding the ratio of the time taken by the Concord to the time taken by the subsonic jet. However unlikely it may seem, imagine that both jets are flying in a straight line at constant speed and use the definition of average speed to find

Answer 1