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With a broomstick, wouldn't it be the speed of sound, since it's a pressure wave?
by SummonJetTruck 14y ago
With a broomstick, wouldn't it be the speed of sound, since it's a pressure wave?
- SEMW 14y agoFair point. For the analogy I was going for a hypothetical rigid broomstick, made of stuff that's as incompressible as physically possible. The speed of sound in that would be c. Yeah, that isn't very realistic, but I don't think that hurts the point it was illustrating.