2006-11-16 06:53:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
First of all, 3 x 10^8 m/s is the speed of light in a vacuum. Thanks for nothing there.
Now, for the speed of sound ...
The typically cited value is about 340 m/s in standard atmosphere, but the actual speed of sound varies with the medium.
For an ideal gas, the speed of sound is defined as follows:
a = SQRT(gamma*R*T), where gamma is the ratio of the heat capacities of the gas, R is the universal gas constant, and T is the absolute gas temperature. Similar correlations exist for the speed of sound in solids and liquids which depend on the density and thermophysical properties of the medium.
2006-11-16 07:07:01 · answer #1 · answered by Edward S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
slower than the speed of light.
2006-11-16 07:02:14 · answer #2 · answered by butterfly*princess 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The distance that the sound goes per second .
2006-11-16 06:58:20 · answer #3 · answered by jetboy861 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
3 x 10^8 m/s.
what does this have to with laptops?
2006-11-16 07:00:10 · answer #4 · answered by stitchfan85 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
roughly 1100 ft/sec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound
2006-11-16 06:55:52 · answer #5 · answered by Magick Kitty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Acoustics/Sound_Speed
2006-11-16 07:02:31 · answer #6 · answered by tanvisurja 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋