Fox and McDonald's Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
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Author: Philip J. Pritchard, John W. Mitchell
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Chapter 12, Problem 12P
An airplane flies at 550 km/hr at 1500 m altitude on a standard day. The plane climbs to 15,000 m and flies at 1200 km/h. Calculate the Mach number of flight in both cases
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