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Re: AW: Underwater latency (not completely OT) ;-)
>Thanks Doug. Sounds as if I'm misremembering some of my class notes.
>
>I'll go through and work some sample equations to confirm. However,
>there's one quoted passage that just reads wrong to me: "The denser
>and the lower the compressibility, the slower the sound waves would
>travel. Therefore, the speed of sound is about four times faster in
>water than in air."
>
>Does that read weird to anybody else (like he's contradicting
>himself), or is it just me...?
>
I felt the same when I read it: water is denser and less compressible
than air, but 4 times faster as google confirmed...
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