Sound speed in an ideal gas

Layer 1 — Physicsin the Acoustics subtree

c = √(γ R T / M), where γ = c_p/c_v is the adiabatic index, R the gas constant, T temperature, and M molar mass. Derives from treating sound as an adiabatic pressure perturbation on an ideal gas — faster than the isothermal Newton…

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