The pitch that the average human can hear has a frequency of 20.0. If sound with this frequency travels through air with the speed of 331 m/s, what is its wavelength.

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Douglas Parrish

Physics

21 May, 01:54

The pitch that the average human can hear has a frequency of 20.0. If sound with this frequency travels through air with the speed of 331 m/s, what is its wavelength.

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Bennett Daugherty · Answer 1

There are problems with the first sentence, and it's not really needed when

working with this question. So let's just take the 20 (Hz?) frequency from

the first sentence, and ignore the rest of it for right now.

Wavelength = (speed) / (frequency) =

(331 m/s) / (20 Hz) = 16.55 meters.