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In March 2004, NASA successfully launched an experimental supersonic-combustion ramjet engine (called a scramjet) that reached a record-setting Mach number of 7. Taking the air temperature to be 2208C, determine the speed of this engine.

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QUESTION:

In March 2004, NASA successfully launched an experimental supersonic-combustion ramjet engine (called a scramjet) that reached a record-setting Mach number of 7. Taking the air temperature to be 2208C, determine the speed of this engine.

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The Mach number of scramjet and the air temperature are given. The speed of the engine is to be determined.

We assume that the air is an ideal gas with constant specific heats at room temperature.

The gas constant of air is . Its specific heat ratio at room temperature is .

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