Gregwor & Audiomutt's TL MSM Calculator - Units Error?

Started by Elusive Sounds on 22 January 2022. 1 reply.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 23074.

I have been going over the math in the "DATA" tab of the MSM TL Calculator Version 2.05 (found here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21770) and found an anomaly. In the MSM resonance equation f0 = C [ (m1 + m2) / (m1 x m2 x d)]^0.5 , C is the constant used to describe if the air cavity is empty or full of insulation. I have read in a few different places (including here: https://www.digistar.cl/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=413) that for imperial units C = 60 for an empty cavity, and C = 43 for a full cavity while for metric units, C=2650 for an empty cavity, and C=1900 for a full cavity. This obviously has a huge effect on the value of Fo. So in columns K through N, metric values are used. However, in cells L10 and L11, it looks like the values for Imperial units (60 and 43) are used.
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Why are the imperial constants used here? I found this when debugging a discrephancy between manual calculations and the TL MSM Calculator.
just fyi - this document (i've found it to be useful) might provide a more practical approach to estimation. https://www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/me458/9_trans.pdf however - in postings, Stuart has the imperial values in the equation. 60/43. the other values would be used in metric - however - i think the ^0.5 is also different.