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Article #3353Re: RESONANT AIR COLUMN EXPERIMENT
From: Gordon Wong
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 15:22
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 15:22
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> Jim Carr writes: > > In article <246@mindlink.bc.ca> Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong) > writes: > >My question: Which (the fundamental, the 1st overtone, or the 2nd overtone) > >would yield the more accurate value for the wavelength; or does it matter? > > Good question. Your experiment should help you answer it. > Experiments show that the results using the 2nd overtone result in a more accurate value for the wavelength and thus the speed of sound. I am just wondering why. My guess is that somehow with a longer tube length, the correction plays less of a factor?????
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