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Question
Velocity of sound in a gaseous medium is 330 ms–1. If the pressure is increased by 4 times without causing a change in the temperature, the velocity of sound in the gas is
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330 ms–1
660 ms1
156 ms–1
990 ms–1
Solution
330 ms–1
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