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Old 1st December 2009 | 23:32
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isn't temperature a factor in Mach Number?

Confuses a lot of folk. Temperature is tied up with speed of sound. Mach, however, can be expressed as an equation involving pressures only. The equation comes out something along the lines of

M = (5((qc/ps+1)^0.286-1))^0.5

which I've lifted from an old thread on machmeters .. and ... if I have counted brackets etc., correctly.
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