next up previous
Next: 2.4 Speed of Sound Up: 2 Speed of Sound Previous: 2.2 Ideal Gas

2.3 Speed of Sound in Liquid

$\displaystyle c = \sqrt{elastic\; property \over inertial\; property} = \sqrt{B \over \rho}$ (5)

where

$\displaystyle B = \rho {{d {P} \over { d \rho}} }$ (6)



Genick Bar-Meir ||| www.potto.org
copyright Dec , 2006

The pdf version is also available here