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Hi Andrew, Thanks for responding. Although I can follow the maths I don't really know what a lot of the terms mean, but that's okay as I was just trying to understand why there is a change. But I do now get that if the speed of sound is the rate of change of pressure with density and that as a...

Hi all, Sorry if this post is a bit wordy but I've been going round in circles and I thought I'd see if anyone on here can help, it's also my first post so be nice... I've been trying to understand how Newton miscalculated the speed of sound. I know that he thought that the propagation of...