The speed of sound is the rate of travel of a sound wave through an elastic medium. In dry air at 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of sound is 343 meters per second (1,125 ft/s). This equates to 1,236 kilometers per hour (768 mph), or about one kilometer in three seconds and about one mile in five seconds. This figure for air (or any given gas) increases with gas temperature (equations are given below), but is much less dependent of pressure or density for a given gas. For different gases, the speed of sound is dependent on the mean molecular weight of the gas, and to a lesser extent upon the ways in which the molecules of the gas can store heat energy from compression (since sound in gases is a type of compression). The speed of sound in air is referred to as Mach 1 by aerospace physics.
Although "the speed of sound" is commonly used to refer specifically to the speed of sound waves in air, the speed of sound can be measured in virtually any substance. Sound travels faster in liquids and non-porous solids (5,120 m/s in iron) than it does in air, traveling about 4.3 times faster in water (1,484 m/s) than in air at 20 degrees Celsius.
Additionally, in solids, there occurs the possibility of two different types of sound waves: one type (called "longitudinal waves" when in solids) is associated with compression (the same as all sound waves in fluids) and the other is associated with shear stresses, which cannot occur in fluids. These two types of waves have different speeds, and (for example in an earthquake) may thus be initiated at the same time but arrive at distant points at appreciably different times. The speed of compression-type waves in all media is set by the medium's compressibility and density, and the speed of shear waves in solids is set by the material's stiffness, compressibility and density.
Yes, and faster through solids than liquids.
Yes it does, due to molecular density.
sound travels the fastest in solids, then liquids, then gas. So it would travel through iron the fastest, then water, then air.
The media that sound moves faster in order are solids, then liquids, and then gases or air. Sound cannot travel in a vacuum because it is a vibration of molecules.
Sounds travels slowest in air and fastest in solids. Generally, sound travels faster through materials of higher densities.
Yes, and faster through solids than liquids.
yeah sound travels fastest through solids , than that through liquids and slowest in air and does not travel through Vaccum
Yes it does, due to molecular density.
sound travels the fastest in solids, then liquids, then gas. So it would travel through iron the fastest, then water, then air.
The media that sound moves faster in order are solids, then liquids, and then gases or air. Sound cannot travel in a vacuum because it is a vibration of molecules.
Sound travels faster in moist air
Sounds travels slowest in air and fastest in solids. Generally, sound travels faster through materials of higher densities.
It doesn't, sound travels slowest in air then faster in liquids then solids. Sound traveling through steel in many times faster then through air, for example. Sound travels through vibrations, and the vibrations pass through molecules until they reach your ear. If the molecules are far away it takes longer to pass the vibrations, but if they are closer together they will travel faster. Because the molecules are packed closer together in a liquid the sound travels faster through it, and even faster through solids.
Sound travels faster in water thanin air.
The sound travel faster in warm air because the average mean speed of the molecules of air is faster in warm air than on cool air. Sound is transferred by collisions of molecules. Therefore sound waves will travel faster on warm air because collisions of molecules of air in warm air is greater.
Sound travel faster in solids than in liquids, and faster in liquids than in gases. Sound travels faster in water than in the air but in solids it travels about eight times faster. Sound travels at the fastest speed in steel. In solids it travel faster in a hot surface, the particles move faster if the solid is cold its slower the movement.
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