Sound is a pressure wave. It is produced by vibrations which travel through the air (or other subtance) by molecules vibrating and pushing against each other.
Imagine taking a slinky and stretching it out with both your hands. If you suddenly push one side of the slinky towards your other hand, you can see the wave of energy move from one hand to the other. Sound travels by the same principle!
Through Particles in the air.
through waves and only if there is a medium
A few men have traveled through space faster than sound travels through water but no manned vehicle has traveled through a liquid faster than sound through that liquid.
No. Sound will travel through any sort of matter, gas, solid, or liquid.
Sound travels through air. Experiment: Listen. Result: Do you hear anything? That sound has traveled through air.
Because the light traveled faster then the sound of it hitting the ground.
If air traveled with sound waves, it would result in constant noise and interference in communication. Sound waves traveling with air would also lead to unpredictable disturbances in the environment and could potentially be harmful to living organisms due to the continuous exposure to loud noises.
The sound of a volcano that exploded in Indonesia in the 19th century traveled around the world. How far sound will travel depends on how loud it is.
I believe it is 219 miles, 352 km by a tornado.
No. The amplitude of the sound (and therefore its loudness) will decrease at greater distances; the speed will remain constant (assuming other factors, such as the density of air and the temperature, are constant).
The distance in sound waves can be calculated using the formula: distance = speed of sound x time. The speed of sound in air at room temperature is approximately 343 meters per second. By knowing the time it takes for the sound wave to travel from the source to the receiver, you can calculate the distance the sound wave has traveled.
No real limit, up to the speed of light. The Apollo astronauts traveled at ABOUT 32 times the speed of sound on their trip to the moon. That is the fastest yet.
Tsunamis can travel close to the speed of sound. The most recent one traveled at about 200 mph.
They travel back sixty million two thousand and fifty five years