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Posted by Marco on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 6:27pm.

A member of an aircraft maintenance crew wears protective earplugs that reduce the sound intensity by a factor of 355. When a jet aircraft is taking off, the sound intensity level experienced by the crew member is 72 dB. What sound intensity level would the crew member experience if he removed the protective earplugs?

physics - bobpursley, Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 7:30pm
what is log 355? 2.55

multiply that by 10, add it to 72 db

intensity= 10 log (power)=10log(original)+10log355
physics - drwls, Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 7:32pm
A factor of 355 in intensity is 25.5 dB more than 72 dB. That makes 97.5 dB

Here's how I got that: Take 10 times the log(base10) of 355.

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