speed of sound?

Question

How long in ms does it take sound to travel 4.25 inches under normal conditions.

Answer 1

Well, the speed of sound is 1100 feet per second in air at sea level and 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

(If we are at a higher altitude, or the air is warmer, it is less dense and the speed of sound is actually slower then. But usually, when questions like this are asked, the standard conditions are the ones meant, unless otherwise specified.)

Divide the number of inches 4.25 by (1100 feet x 12 inches per foot) and that gives you the portion of a second that it took. Multiply by 1000 and that is the number of miliseconds.

10 NOV 06, 2013 hrs, GMT.

Answer 2

Actually, it is:

1000*(4.25 / 12.0) /1100 = 0.321969697 ms

At STP (Standard temperature and pressure)
STP defined by the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) is an absolute pressure of 100 kPa (1 bar) and a temperature of 273.15 K (0 °C)"


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Answer 3

The sped of sound depends upon the medium that it's journeying even though comparable to whether it is even though a fuel, liquid, and sure an outstanding.The velocity of sound even though air is 340m/s.But it's even quicker even though water going about1500m/s. The velocity of sound travels even though solids the quickest in copper it is going approximately 2536m/s so it is determined by temperature and medium even though which it propogates. .