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  1. Velocity of sound in air does not change with the change of
    1. Temperature of air
    2. Pressure of air
    3. Moisture content in air
    4. Wind in the direction of propagation of sound
Correct Option: B

The speed of sound in an ideal gas is independent of frequency, but it weakly depends on frequency for all real physical situations. It is a function of the square root of the absolute temperature, but is independent of pressure or density for a given ideal gas. Sound speed is slightly dependent on pressure only because air is not quite an ideal gas. In addition, for different gases, the speed of sound is inversely dependent on square root of the mean molecular weight of the gas, and affected to a lesser extent by the number of ways in which the molecules of the gas can store heat from compression, since sound in gases is a type of compression.



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