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.
We can calculate the wavelength of sound waves that we can hear using the formula wavelength = velocity / frequency. In air sound travels at about 340 meters per second (the precise value depends on temperature, humidity, and pressure). We hear (measured in air) range from about two-thirds of an inch to 50 feet.