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11.3 Speed of Sound

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    • Fig. 11.1 A very slow moving piston in a still gas.

    Most of compressible flow occurs at relative high velocity as compere to the speed of sound. Hence, the speed of sound has to discussed initially. Outside the ideal gas, limited other situations will be discussed.

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    • Dr. Genick Bar-Meir. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or later or Potto license.