A. Lutfiyah, A.S. Adam, N. Suprapto, A. Kholiq, N.P. Putri
This paper deals to identify the correction factor in determining speed of sound that have been done by freshmen in undergraduate physics laboratory. Then, the result will be compared with speed of sound that determining by senior student. Both of them used the similar instrument, namely resonance tube with apparatus. The speed of sound indicated by senior was 333.38 ms-1 with deviation to the theory about 3.98%. Meanwhile, for freshmen, the speed of sound experiment was categorised into three parts: accurate value (52.63%), middle value (31.58%) and lower value (15.79%). Based on analysis, some correction factors were suggested: human error in determining first and second harmonic, end correction of tube diameter, and another factors from environment, such as temperature, humidity, density, and pressure. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Surabaya, 60231, Indonesia
