The Angle of the Shock Wave Produced by a Jet

question 2

Multiple Choice

The angle of the shock wave produced by a jet traveling at Mach 3 at an altitude of 4000 m assume the speed of sound to be 340 m/s at this altitude) is approximately

• A) 10^o.
• B) 13^o.
• C) 19^o.
• D) 20^o.
• E) 38^o.

---

Definitions:

Chebysheff's Theorem

A theorem that provides a minimum proportion of observations that lie within a specified number of standard deviations from the mean, applicable to all distributions.

Standard Deviations

A measure that indicates the amount of variation or dispersion from the average in a set of data.

Geometric Mean

The nth root of the product of n numbers, used especially for sets of positive numbers.

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean.