About Stokes' law of sound attenuation

In acoustics, Stokes's law of sound attenuation is a formula for the attenuation of sound in a Newtonian fluid, such as water or air, due to the fluid's viscosity. It states that the amplitude of a plane wave decreases exponentially with distance traveled, at a rate α given by

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Stokes' law of sound attenuation

formula for sound intensity loss in a Newtonian fluid

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