How well does a sound travel through a solid?

Answer 1

its the best medium that sound can travel through,the next is liquid and the slowest is gas the reason for this is because First, sound is mechanical energy. It needs a medium to travel through. The energy is transferred into the medium, and the medium carries it through itself. That's propagation, and you probably already knew most or all of that. But we need to start at the beginning, so let's jump.

When something moves to create sound, either continuously like a guitar string, or "just once" like when a hammer strikes a nail head, the action creates pressure waves or a pressure wave. The pressure wave or waves are actually atoms or molecules "pushing against" each other in response to the action causing the sound. The "pushing against" each other is the transfer of the mechanical energy of sound through whatever is "conducting" that energy. That's how sound is transmitted (and why sound can't travel through a vacuum). The medium is carrying the mechanical energy of the wave. So the action of atoms or molecules shoving each other "over" to conduct the sound, this compression of them, has an opposite action, which we call rarifaction.

Answer 2

its the best medium sound travels through,the next is liquid then the slowest is gas. the reason why is becauseFirst, sound is mechanical energy. It needs a medium to travel through. The energy is transferred into the medium, and the medium carries it through itself. That's propagation, and you probably already knew most or all of that. But we need to start at the beginning, so let's jump.

When something moves to create sound, either continuously like a guitar string, or "just once" like when a hammer strikes a nail head, the action creates pressure waves or a pressure wave. The pressure wave or waves are actually atoms or molecules "pushing against" each other in response to the action causing the sound. The "pushing against" each other is the transfer of the mechanical energy of sound through whatever is "conducting" that energy. That's how sound is transmitted (and why sound can't travel through a vacuum). The medium is carrying the mechanical energy of the wave. So the action of atoms or molecules shoving each other "over" to conduct the sound, this compression of them, has an opposite action, which we call rarifaction.