sonar (version 1.0.2)

SpeedOfSoundDryAir: Speed of sound in dry air at sea level air density and one atmosphere pressure

Description

Returns the speed of sound in dry air at sea level air density and one atmosphere pressure

Usage

SpeedOfSoundDryAir(temperatureC)

Arguments

temperatureC

numeric, temperature in degrees Celsius accurate to within 1%

Value

the speed of sound (m/s)

References

Kleeman L. & Kuc R., 2008 Springer Handbook of Robotics, Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib (Eds.) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.496 eq (21.6).

Examples

#Speed of sound (dry air, at sea level air density, one atmosphere pressure)
#temperature 20 C
SpeedOfSoundDryAir(20)