The sound through water travels 300 miles per hour (INCORRECT)
It travels at about 10 times that speed in water - closer to 3000 miles per hour, although the purity of the water, the temperature and the pressure will also affect the speed.
Sound travels more than 4 times faster in water than it does in air, specifically about 1484 meters per second.
In fresh water, sound travels at about 1497 m/s (3,348 mi/hr) at 25 °C (77 °F). At 0 °C (32 °F - the freezing point of water) it is about 1402 m/s (3,136 mi/hr). At 100 °C (212 °F - the boiling point of water at atmospheric pressure) it is about 1543 m/s (3,451 mi/hr) Note: all these values are for fresh water at atmospheric pressure
In salt water that is free of air bubbles or suspended sediment, sound travels at about 1560 m/s - but this is only an average. The actual speed depends on the salinity of the water (which changes quite a bit as you move away from the coast, and/or change in depth), on temperature (which varies enormously as you move from one pole, through the equator, and down to the other pole - as well as from season to season and with depth), and pressure (which, of course changes a lot with depth). Higher salinity increases the speed - by around 0.25% on average. Pressure increase the speed by up to 12% in the deepest part of the ocean. Temperature can change the speed by about 10% from 0 °C to 100 °C. The coldest recorded ocean water was around -3 °C for a subsurface stream in Antarctica. The hottest ocean water is probably near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor where it can reach around 464 °C - although in this case, the water is actually a supercritical fluid and will not behave like normal liquid.
The speed of sound in a supercritical fluid is rather counterintuitive due to the high density, low viscosity, and high compressibility of supercritical fluids. Near the critical point, the speed of sound can drop precipitously since the pressure waves that constitute the transmission of sound cause extremely large changes in the densities of the near-critical fluid.
Since sound requires medium to travel(thats why we don't hear nuclear booms from sun),
so denser the medium, higher is the velocity of sound.
speed of sound in air=330m/s
speed of sound in water=1500m/s
speed of sound is solid=5000m/s
so sound travels about 5 and 16.67 times faster in water and solid medium respectively
sound travels at a speed of 0.62 miles per second.
More like 1500 meters per second. Its pretty fast and or 3,348 mph
In fresh water @ 20 degrees C = 1482 metres per second (3315 mph)
It travels approxamately 660 mph or miles per hour it also depends on depth though. F
about 1500 meters per second
They travel much, much faster than that.
Because the speed of light is much faster than the speed of sound. Therefore, when the light from that event reaches your eyes, you see it. Then later, the sound from the event reaches your ears, and you hear it. Basically it's just because light travels faster than sound.
Sound is a compression wave that travels via then vibrations of particles. If the particles are closer together then the wave (sound) moves faster. Particles are closer together in a liquid than a gas, therefore sound travels faster through liquids.
In simple terms... light travels much faster than sound. We see the lightning flash first, followed by the sound when it finally reaches us
Light travels much faster then sound. That is what causes the delay.
Yes, but a train is much faster.
Turtles are much faster in water than on Land. They can usually swim faster than a human.
Much faster in a solid
I recently saw an experiment which demonstrated that sound travels several times faster through water than through air. This made me wonder about something, so I thought I'd post the question here and see what would be the most popular hypothesis: Seeing as sound travels several times faster through water than air, and seeing as water is much more dense than air, what do you think would happen if we ever reach the point of technology where an object or vehicle could break the sound barrier underwater? I realize that the vehicle or object would have to be travelling at an insane speed several times faster than an object in air), but I'm more interested in the physical byproducts of breaking the sound barrier underwater; such as - would there be a barrier event underwater as there is in air? Would there be some kind of weird cavitation event associated with a sonic boom if it occurred underwater?
Light travels faster (much faster) than sound.
About a million times faster
Sound travels faster through solids because, molecules in solids are much closer together so this allows sound waves to travel faster.
They travel much, much faster than that.
Light travels much faster than sound, through wood.
Light speed is much faster than the speed of sound, ergo the light you see in lightning is visible, before you here the sound.
Light travels much, much faster than sound. Light travels at 299792458 m/s while sound only goes 340.29 m/s.
Sound travels faster in solid materials where molecules line up or are dense. Much like the structure of steel.