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velocity of sound

[və′läs·əd·ē əv ′sau̇nd]
(acoustics)
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This velocity may be ascertained by sending a flash of light to a mirror, and observing how long it takes before the reflected flash reaches you, just as the velocity of sound may be ascertained by means of an echo.
It rapidly grasps audio waveforms, such as the volume level for the voices, tones and the velocity of sound, and helps call center agents respond to customer requests quickly.
Finally, using the definition [c.sub.sound] = [([partial derivative]p/[partial derivative][rho])).sup.1/2.sub.sound] and the fact that the order parameter relaxation time tends to very large values in the vicinity of the continuous phase transition points, one obtains the complex effective elastic constant (complex velocity of sound) of the BC model with quenched diluted crystal field:
After which Austrian physicist is the ratio of the velocity of a body in a medium to the velocity of sound in that medium named?
The transmitter generates ultrasound waves; the mobile robot moves distance [increment of x], and the receiver receives the ultrasound waves, which traverse distance L at the velocity of sound, c.
The velocity of sound is 1447, 1451, 1455, 1459, 1463, 1471, and 1479 m/s at 10[degrees]C when the hydrostatic pressure is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 MPa, respectively.
Ultrasonic measurements were made by pulse technique of sender-receiver type (SV-DH-7A/SVX-7 velocity of sound instrument) with constant frequency (45 KHz), the receiver quartz crystal mounted on a digital fernier scale of slow motion, the receiver crystal could be displaced parallel to the sender and the samples were put between sender and receiver.
They show that the front velocity of the shock wave is greater than the velocity of sound in a linear medium.
Which numbering scale is used to determine the ratio of speed to velocity of sound? 6.
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