The call to learn | Clifford Stoll
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Clifford Stoll measures sound speed with an oscillator and a moving microphone. He reads frequency and finds wavelength through the distance to a repeated phase, giving each quantity in the wave-speed formula an operational meaning.
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was that if you multiply the frequency times the wavelength of sound or light, you get a constant. And that constant is the speed of sound.It's 1.76 kilohertz. I measure its wavelength.