1.II
Part II, 2008
Show that in an acoustic plane wave the velocity and perturbation pressure are everywhere proportional and find the constant of proportionality.
Gas occupies a tube lying parallel to the -axis. In the regions and the gas has uniform density and sound speed . For the gas is cooled so that it has uniform density and sound speed . A harmonic plane wave with frequency is incident from . Show that the amplitude of the wave transmitted into relative to that of the incident wave is
where and .
What are the implications of this result if ?