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Sahay Sir > Question Answers > AIIMS Last 24 Years Solved 1996 - 2019 Physics and Chemistry Video Solutions > Physics > Chapter 16 - Waves > An earthquake generates both transverse (S) and longitudinal (P) sound waves in the earth. The speed of S waves is about 4.5 km/s and that of P waves about 8.0 km/s. A seismograph records P and S waves from an earthquake. The first P wave arrives 4.0min. before the first S wave. The epicenter of the earthquake is located at a distance of about

An earthquake generates both transverse (S) and longitudinal (P) sound waves in the earth. The speed of S waves is about 4.5 km/s and that of P waves about 8.0 km/s. A seismograph records P and S waves from an earthquake. The first P wave arrives 4.0min. before the first S wave. The epicenter of the earthquake is located at a distance of about

The velocities of sound at the same temperature in two monoatomic gases of densities p1 and p2 are v1 and v2 ​respectively. If p1/p2 ​ = 4 then the value of v1/v2 is