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No, if that were true, every time you heard thunder you would feel a huge wind. The movement of air particles cause the sound to propagate (go through the air), but the particles themselves don't really go anywhere (except where they would have gone anyway in silence). It's analogous to waves on the water: If you drop a rock into a pond, you can see the resulting waves going out in growing circles, but the water molecules themselves are moving only up and down. A simple experiment that shows this is putting a small air-filled ball on a pond and dropping a rock into the water near it. Instead of the ball being carried away by one of the resulting waves, it moves only up and down.
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∙ 12y agoWell, for one thing, you would always see the lightning and hear the thunder
at the same instant, no matter how far away it is.
You would always see the hit and hear the crack of the bat, even from the nosebleed seats.
There would be no such thing as a 'sonic boom', and no aircraft that ever broke
the 'sound barrier', since nothing can accelerate to the speed of light.
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∙ 10y agoSound energy does travel through air.
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Sound energy cannot pass through empty space true or false?
True, sound waves can travel in all three mediums , solids liquids and gases We hear sounds in gas medium. Sonar is an application for sound in liquid. Sound can make solids vibrate upon moving.
Sound waves cannot travel in outer space True or false?
no trust me there isn't don't make me go in to explaning it
Can waves or wind erode and deposit larger particles?
true
Can the Doppler effect occurs only with sound waves?
yes it is true for all waves.
Is it true that the funnel for sound waves in the ear is the outer ear?
it the ear canal
Is it true that sound waves travel faster through air than through solids?
Through solids because the particles are closer than gas particles.
Sound energy cannot pass through empty space true or false?
True, sound waves can travel in all three mediums , solids liquids and gases We hear sounds in gas medium. Sonar is an application for sound in liquid. Sound can make solids vibrate upon moving.
What is true about sound in a vacuum?
Sound cannot travel through a vacuum, it needs a medium to travel through as its the vibration of particles that allows its energy to progress
How do sound waves travel through media?
Sound waves travel through vibrations. If one particle starts vibrating it will pass on that movement to other particles that are close by. This means that sound travels quickly through solids as the particles are closely packed and readily pick up movement from their neighbours; it travels less quickly through liquids as the particles are close enough to pick up vibrations but not tightly packed like they are in solids; sound travels slowest through gases (weird, but true - even though we rely on gases to pass on the sounds we make in speech) because their particles are much further apart. If there are no particles - like in a vacuum such as you'd find in space - then sound can't travel at all!
How does energy move by means of a wave?
In electromagnetic waves energy is transmitted as electric and magnetic fields. In sound waves energy is transmitted as vibration of air particles. In water waves the energy is transmitted as vibration of water particles.
Sound waves are example of longitudinal waves True Or False?
True.
Only sound energy travels in wavesTrue or false?
false because it can also travel out of waves
Sound waves cannot travel in outer space True or false?
no trust me there isn't don't make me go in to explaning it
Electromagnetic waves travel the speed of light is it true?
It is true.
True or false the energy of earthquakes travel in waves?
True.
What is true of waves?
Electromagnetic waves can travel through empty space.
Which is not true about p waves?
They travel faster than S waves
