VARIATIONS IN THE SPEED OF SOUND DUE TO ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION,

Abstract

By means of a simple error propagation formula, it is shown that the usual variations in atmospheric composition may introduce an error no greater than about two centimeters per second in the computation of the sound speed and, therefore, should be of negligible concern in the routine utilization of acoustics in either sound ranging or sonic thermoanemometry. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0455554

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People

  • Richard D. H. Low

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustics
  • Atmospheric Composition
  • Atmospheric Properties
  • Computations
  • Earth'S Characteristics
  • Range Finding
  • Sound Ranging

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