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Yes, Sound can go through water. And it is also pretty amzing too!!!
Sound can travel through water quite well, even more efficiently than through air. This is because sound is a wave that requires a medium for its transmission, and the higher the density of the medium, the greater the efficiency of transmission. "Efficiency" for this discussion means that the overall amplitude (strength) of the sound is not diminished.
However, it should also be understood that sound, as we know it, is comprised of many different frequencies, some higher and some lower. Not all of these will retain their same relative amplitude as they transmit through different materials. So the sound you hear underwater will be different than the sound we are accustomed to hearing through the air.
Water is denser than air, so it will transmit sound more efficiently than air.
Also understand that sound traveling through air loses much of its original energy (loudness) because air is a relatively poor medium through which to transmit sound. Likewise, since water is so much better, the same sound will seem louder under water. But it is not louder. It just retains more of its original energy. This is why tapping your fingers on an aquarium is not such a good idea. It creates a sound in the water that is much louder than the tapping sound you hear through the air, and which causes great stress to the aquarium fish.
Sound will not transmit through a vacuum.
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How does sound travel over water?
Sound waves travel through water in the same manner they do through air. The waves in which produced by the source will take form as the particles of water vibrate in a rhythmic pattern which yield to the specific sounds.
What other substances can sound travel through?
Sound is a mechanical wave, which requires a medium to travel through. That medium can be nearly anything: air, water, steel, etc. The only thing sounds can't travel through is a vacuum, such as outer space.
What substance will a sound wave travel fastest through?
Sounds travels faster through denser materials. It is lowest in air, gets faster through water, faster yet through steel.
Do sounds travel through different materials?
Yes they do.
What types of matter do sounds travel through?
rarer medium- air
How do sound waves travel through water compared with wood?
Sounds travel better through denser objects and since water is denser than wood, sound travels through it better.
How does sound travel over water?
Sound waves travel through water in the same manner they do through air. The waves in which produced by the source will take form as the particles of water vibrate in a rhythmic pattern which yield to the specific sounds.
What other substances can sound travel through?
Sound is a mechanical wave, which requires a medium to travel through. That medium can be nearly anything: air, water, steel, etc. The only thing sounds can't travel through is a vacuum, such as outer space.
Does sounds travel faster though water of through air?
Sound travels faster in water than it does in air. It travels even faster in metals.
What can sounds not travel through?
Since sound is a mechanical wave (it needs a substance to travel through) it cannot travel through a vacuum.
Do sounds waves travel through a medium?
Yes
What do sounds vibrations travel through?
throw vacume
What substance will a sound wave travel fastest through?
Sounds travels faster through denser materials. It is lowest in air, gets faster through water, faster yet through steel.
Do sounds travel through different materials?
Yes they do.
Can sounds travel in a vacuum?
No, sound requires a medium to travel.No it must travel through matter
How does water travel through water?
no
Why cant they be sound on the moon?
Because sounds are created by vibrations that our eardrums pick-up. In order for the sound waves to travel, there has to be something for it to travel through, either the air, water, solids, etc.
