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A solid with highest Young's modulus probably diamond
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Which wave would travel fastest in a vacuum light or sound?
Sound cannot go through vaccum
What do Sound wave not travel?
Sound wave do not travel through vaccum as it need medium to travel.
Why does sound travel fastest through a sold then a liquid and a gas?
That's because sound is a compression wave. It needs a medium to travel through. The best mediums are dense, like metal and concrete. Liquids are okay. Gasses are the worst. Sound will not travel in space because there's no medium for sound to travel through.
Sound waves do not travel through what?
Sound wave do not travel through vaccum as it need medium to travel.
Why do you think sound usually travel fastest through solids but light usually travel slowest through solids?
As you know, light is electromagnetic wave. While sound is mechanical wave, Sound requires a medium to travel, and sound offers best condition for it. While light is enegry packates (photons) and solids hinder its path making it slower.
What are the objects called that allow sound to travel through them?
Sound is a pressure wave. Objects that "allow" sound to travel through them could be called wave guides.
Sound wave travel the fastest with what material?
Sound travels fastest through iron and sound travels slowest through air!
Does sound travel?
Yes, sound is a wave and it travels when there is a medium for it to travel through.
Which type of wave is sound?
Sound is a mechanical wave and must travel through a medium, such as air, water, and solids. Sound waves cannot travel through a vacuum.
When would sound travel the fastest?
Sound travels fastest in a solid because the particles are closely packed meaning the particles can pass the sound wave on without any gaps in between. It travels through a gas the slowest as the particles are spaced out meaning they only occasionally bump into each other to pass on the sound wave.
What is the fasted speed sound can travel through?
Your question needs to be defined more clearly, do you mean through which medium does sound travel the fastest? If so, in general the more dense the medium is the faster the sound wave travels; sound travels through Air (a gas) slower than through water (a liquid) because the sound is transmitted by the molecules colliding therefore the more dense the medium the easier the force is transmitted in a direction. It is also for this reason why sound can not travel through a vacuum (there are no particles in a vacuum to transmit the sound wave)
What substance will a sound wave travel fastest through?
Sounds travels faster through denser materials. It is lowest in air, gets faster through water, faster yet through steel.
