SpeedOfSoundAir: speed of sound in humid air at sea level air density and...

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References Examples

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Description

Returns the speed of sound in humid air at sea level air density and known atmospheric pressure

Usage

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SpeedOfSoundAir(temperatureC, Hr, pressurekPa)

Arguments

temperatureC

numeric, temperature in degrees Celsius in the range -30 C to 43 C

Hr

numeric, relative humidity, accurate to within 0.1% for temperatures

pressurekPa

numeric, atmospheric pressure in kPa

Value

the speed of sound (m/s)

Author(s)

Jose Gama

References

Kleeman L. & Kuc R., 2008 Springer Handbook of Robotics, Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib (Eds.) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.496 eq (21.8).

Examples

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#Speed of sound (Humid air, at sea level air density)
#temperature 20 C, 90\% relative humidity, 101 kPa atmosphere pressure
SpeedOfSoundAir(20, 0.9, 101)

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