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I have completed a lab on sound waves in which we measured the speed of sound in air(a vaccum) by measuring the lengths of pipes that would resonate tunning forks fundamental frequencies. One question I am asked to answer is to describe the relationship between the frequency of a sound and the length of a pipe that resonates it and explain why the relationship is what is it. By looking at my datd I can't see a relation between the two...
(384Hz, 19.8cm) (426.7Hz, 19.9cm) (480Hz, 18.7cm) those were closed pipes and then (256Hz, 71.8cm) and (288Hz, 58.4cm) those were open pipes. From that data I don't see a relation between the frequency and the length that resonates it, am I missing somehting or did I just come up with bad data, mind you when I calculated the speed of sound I came up with an average of 341 m/s so It was farily close to the accepted value.
(384Hz, 19.8cm) (426.7Hz, 19.9cm) (480Hz, 18.7cm) those were closed pipes and then (256Hz, 71.8cm) and (288Hz, 58.4cm) those were open pipes. From that data I don't see a relation between the frequency and the length that resonates it, am I missing somehting or did I just come up with bad data, mind you when I calculated the speed of sound I came up with an average of 341 m/s so It was farily close to the accepted value.
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