revolve; rotate; go around. Context examples: The Earth revolves around the Sun / The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire. Hypernyms (to revolve is one way to...): turn (move around an axis or a center) Troponyms (each of the following is one way to revolve): drive in; screw (cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion) screw (turn like a screw)
In air at normal atmosphere at 0 oC the speed of sound is 331.2 m/s. The wavelength of a 500 Hz tone can be calculated as. Î» = (331.2 m/s) / (500 Hz). = 0.662 m.
1 How fast sound travels (i.e. the speed of sound) depends on what medium it is traveling through. 2  The speed of sound is 340 meters per second in air while as the speed of sound is 1450 meters per second in water.e hear sounds because the vibrations created travel through the air to our ears. Notice that when people want to hear something better they often cup their hand around their ear. This is to help them catch the sound waves.