How far can sound travel?

How far can sound travel?

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wildcat45

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Monday 1st October 2012
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As per the title. I heard an airliner in the climb the other night. I live in a city so it is never quiet. Checked the plane on an App I have and it was about 20 miles from me. This was a modern quiet ish airliner, not a noisy warplane.

A few years ago, I heard a firework display at my home. I knew where it was taking place, 9 miles away as the crow flies.

I know there are dozens of variables, wind direction etc.

Apparently in Kent, you could ear the guns of flanders.


wildcat45

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8,086 posts

191 months

Monday 1st October 2012
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Thick question. So its to do with the energy ie loudness?