Time of your life

You're watering the plants in your garden when you notice an atomic bomb has been set off 400 m from your garden. At time t = 4.3 t = 4.3 ms after the explosion, the fireball is 330 m away.

How much time do you have before you're vaporized by the advancing fireball?

Assumptions

  • An insignificant amount of energy is lost to dissipative processes.
  • The fireball's advancing front is roughly spherical.
  • The surrounding atmosphere has a density of ρ \rho kg/m 3 \mbox{kg/m}^3 .
  • The ambient pressure, in the face of the bomb energy, is completely irrelevant.
1 seconds 28 milliseconds 331 milliseconds 6.2 milliseconds

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