Re: Olympic data

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

This is why, at least in major meets, there is a speaker behind each runner
that carries the sound of the starting 'gun'.

Rick

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bowman" <David_Bowman@GEORGETOWNCOLLEGE.EDU>
> And then there is the issue of the time difference for the sound of
> the report of the starting gun to arrive at each of the starting
> locations of the ears of the various runners.  When the runners are
> initially spread out all over the track this could be a significant
> difference when the speed of sound is only some 340 m/s (0.01 s for
> every 11 ft of difference in distance in the runners' starting
> positions to the starting gun).
>
> David Bowman

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