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Abstract
We present a simple method by which the variation of the hypersound velocity with the angle between the liquid crystal director and the scattering plane is fitted to theory. Combinations of bulk elastic constants can be obtained together with a value for the second sound velocity. This method is used to study the smectic A phase of 4-n-octyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl. We compare our results with previous work.