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No - sound wave cannot pass through "vacuum". It was Robert Boyle, English scientist who proved in 1960 that sound waves need to pass through a medium to transmit sound. This can be tested as follows:
Place a bell inside a chamber and slowly start evacuating air from the chamber. It can be seen that sound of the bell is slowly becoming softer, until there is absolutely no sound.
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Why sound cannot travel in a vacium?
Sound is not an electromagnetic wave, which can pass through a vacuum, but a vibration wave which requires matter to vibrate. A vacuum has no matter to vibrate, therefor sound cannot pass through it.
What do you hear when an alarm clock rings in a vacuum?
Nothing! Sound is wave and needs a medium to pass through in order to be heard !!!Nothing, because sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
Why does a sound travels in solid liduid and gas but not in vaccum?
Sound is a mechanical wave which needs badly a material medium. Hence through vacuum it cannot pass through
What medium can a sound wave pass through?
Essentially any matter ( Solid, liquid or gas ) But not in a vacuum (ie in space)
What cannot go through a vacuum in a wave?
sound
Why sound cannot travel in a vacium?
Sound is not an electromagnetic wave, which can pass through a vacuum, but a vibration wave which requires matter to vibrate. A vacuum has no matter to vibrate, therefor sound cannot pass through it.
What wave cannot travel through empty space?
Any wave that requires a physical medium. Audio (sound pressure) waves, water waves, and "amber waves of grain" are all examples of waves that cannot travel through the vacuum of space.
Why cant you hear the sun here on earth?
Because sound doesn't traverse through a vacuum, sound requires air to pass through in a wave (sound wave).
What do you hear when an alarm clock rings in a vacuum?
Nothing! Sound is wave and needs a medium to pass through in order to be heard !!!Nothing, because sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
Which bell do not produced sound wave the bell in the water or the bell in a vacuum?
the bell in a vacuum, in a vacuum there is nothing for the sound wave to move through
Why does a sound travels in solid liduid and gas but not in vaccum?
Sound is a mechanical wave which needs badly a material medium. Hence through vacuum it cannot pass through
What medium can a sound wave pass through?
Essentially any matter ( Solid, liquid or gas ) But not in a vacuum (ie in space)
What cannot go through a vacuum in a wave?
sound
What mediums do sound move through?
Sound consists of a wave of vibrations of particles so it must have a material substance to pass through. So sound can pass through solids, liquids and gases but not through a vacuum. See http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/sound.htm
What medium can sound travel through?
Sound can be transmitted through all mediums (liquid, solid, gaseous) except vacuum.
Can sound travel through all materials?
If there are atoms then the wave of energy can pass through it. If there aren't any atoms (in a vacuum) then sound cannot travel. Remember: In space, no one can hear you scream.
What Waves in a light wave?
Light wave being visible is not a mechanical wave. It means that it does not need a material medium to be propagated. Even through vacuum it can traverse. Whereas sound waves are mechanical waves. So without a material medium no propagation is possible. So sound cannot pass through vacuum. Being a non mechanical wave light wave is an electro magnetic wave. It is transverse in nature.
