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What can light travel through that sound cant travel through?
light can travel through a vacuum whereas sound cant
Why cant sound trave through empty space?
Why cant sound travel through empty space
What is somthing you cant see touch or feel but you can hear?
Sound is something that cannot be seen, touched, or felt but can be heard. It is a result of vibrations transmitted through a medium, such as air or water, that are then detected by our ears. Sound waves travel through the air and cause our eardrums to vibrate, allowing us to perceive sound.
Why cant you hear explosions on the sun?
Because sound needs a material medium to travel through, and there's no material between us and the sun. We can understand how important it is to have air or something for sound to travel through when we see videos of Apollo astronauts on the moon, where there's no air. They may be only a few feet apart, but still they can only communicate by radio. Without air, sound doesn't work at all.
What is a material that light can't travel through?
light cant travel through opague materials, or anything you cant see through.
Why cant sound waves travel through a vaccuum?
No medium to carry the sound energy.
What can light travel through that sound cant travel through?
light can travel through a vacuum whereas sound cant
What does sound need to travel through?
Sound (and vibration) are a wave system of sequential compressions and rarefactions of a material. These waves are mechanical and do need a substance through which to travel. They cannot travel through a vacuum.
Why cant sound trave through empty space?
Why cant sound travel through empty space
Why cant you hear on the moon?
Because there's no air or other form of atmosphere. Sound need some sort of medium to travel through.
Why cant you listen sound on the moon?
There is no air for sound to travel through.
What sound cant travel through?
sound can't travel through a vacuum. or a place without air.
Why can't sound travel on an asteroid?
sound cant travel on an asteroid because it has no atmosphere. it could travel through it.
Can light and sound travel through space?
light can but sound cant as there is no air
Explain why cant sound travel through vacuums?
there is no air in a vaccum. and sound needs air for the sound waves to travel through.
Why cant sound travel through outer?
Sound, unlike light, needs a medium through which to travel. Sound relies on vibrating molecules or particles. Sound can travel through air at about 3 km/s as it vibrates particles and then the neighbouring particles etc. but it can travel much faster through steel because the particles are much more tightly packed.In outer space there are not enough particles to vibrate, no neighbouring particles for the very few particles that are there. No particles means that there is no sound.
Why cant sound travel through outer space?
Sounds requires a medium to travel through. An example is air. You've also heard sound travel through water and solid objects like wood. In the past it was often thought that no medium exists in space. However, in current astronomy and astrophysics it is thought that dark matter is the medium by which sound can and does travel about space. Due to the atoms being so spread out though, the human ear would not be capable of detecting the sound waves. For more information check out: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_030922.html
