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Old 5th February 2003 | 05:14
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BEagle
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I vaguely remember from my university days 30 years ago that the velocity of sound was equal to the square root of the product of gamma (the ratio of specific heats of gas at const. pressure and const. volume), Boltzmann's constant and the absolute air temperature?
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