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No. Sound will travel through any sort of matter, gas, solid, or liquid.
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How does sound travel through solid liquid and gases?
Only by longitudinal mode
Does sound go through solids quicker than liquids or gases?
This will not answer the question; however sound does not travel thru solids, as sound waves travel only thru gases or air.
Sound waves can only travel through this?
Solids, liquids, and gases? sorry if you are only looking for one answer but that's all I could find
Does sound travel best through solids liquids or gases?
The speed of sound depends on the medium through which it is traveling. Sound travels fastest through solids, then liquids, and slowest through gases. As the molecules in a solid medium are closely packed together, sound waves can travel more quickly through it. Sound waves travel over 17 times faster through steel than through air. The molecules in a liquid medium are also more close together than a gaseous medium, so sound travels 4 times faster in fresh water as compared to air. In a gas, sound can travel only when molecules collide with each other, and as the molecules are quite far apart, the speed is slowest in gases.
Why are sound wave unpolarized?
Sound waves - at least in liquids and gases - can only be longitudinal.
What are the mediums that waves can travel through?
Waves can travel through many media, depending on their nature. Sound waves can go through solids, liquids and gases. Transverse shock waves can only travel through solids. Electromagnetic waves can go through some solids, liquids or gases, or through a vacuum.
Can waves transfer energy through liquids and solids but not through gases or empty space?
Some waves can transfer energy only through liquids and solids, but not through gases or vacuum. Some waves, like sound waves, can transfer energy through gases, liquids and solids but not through vacuum. And some waves, notably electromagnetic waves, can transfer energy through vacuum as well as matter.
Does sound travel in air?
Yes, sound does travel through air, but to be more precise, sound can travel only through a physical medium (solids liquids and gases). Sound is actually a form of energy which can move from place to place only by vibrating particles. So this means that sound cannot be heard in vacume. Creating a vacume is a fool proof method of sound proofing a particular space.
Why can only solids vibrate but liquid and gases can't?
Liquids and gases can vibrate. In fact sound is the vibration of air molecules.
Sound travels fastest in a?
That would be solid. Metals preferably Solid>Liquid>Gases.
Does sound waves show polarization property?
No. Polarization only applies to transverse waves; and sound in gases like air, at least, can only be longitudinal waves.
Can gases travel through a vacuum?
No. Only light waves can travel through a vacuum.
