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Why does light travel slowest through solids while sound travels fastest through solids?
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∙ 11y ago
The simplest explanation would be that light reflects/refracts as it passes through objects, which takes time/slows the light down, while sound is passed through its required medium (i.e. no sound in space, I know, space battles aren't going to be nearly as awesome without sound) the sound propagates by bumping each atom of its medium against the next atom in the medium. The closer the mediums atoms are packed together, the faster the sound can hit the next atom and send the signal.
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Does sound travel slower through air solids or liquids?
Sounds travels slowest in air and fastest in solids. Generally, sound travels faster through materials of higher densities.
How well does sound travel through different materials?
It travels fastest through solids, slowest through gases, and liquids are in the middle.
Which the materials sound travels fastest?
Sound travels fastest through nonporous solids such as iron.
Why is sound traveled slowest through a solid?
It doesnt. Sound actually travels faster the denser the medium is because the molecules are packed closer together. So sound travels fastest in solids.
Can sound travel faster in air?
sound travels so fast because it feels like it
Does sound travel slower through air solids or liquids?
Sounds travels slowest in air and fastest in solids. Generally, sound travels faster through materials of higher densities.
How well does sound travel through different materials?
It travels fastest through solids, slowest through gases, and liquids are in the middle.
Which the materials sound travels fastest?
Sound travels fastest through nonporous solids such as iron.
Why is sound traveled slowest through a solid?
It doesnt. Sound actually travels faster the denser the medium is because the molecules are packed closer together. So sound travels fastest in solids.
Does sound travel faster through water than air?
yeah sound travels fastest through solids , than that through liquids and slowest in air and does not travel through Vaccum
Can sound travel faster in air?
sound travels so fast because it feels like it
Sound travels through the air or water or solids by?
sound can travel in all three media(solids liquid and gas)and travels fastest through solids.
Do sound waves travel even faster through liquids and solids?
Yes. The denser the medium, the faster it travels. So, it travels fastest in solids, and slowest in gases. It can range from only about 340 meters per second in air, to over 2000 meters per second in steel.
What Sound travels best though solid liquid gas?
Sound travels fastest through solids.
What medium sound travels through the fastest and why?
Solids. The atoms are closer together.
Does sound travel fastest through snow or steam?
Snow because snow is a solid and steam is a Gas and science has shoe that sound travels fastest through solids
Does sound travel the fastest through glass?
No, but sound can travel at 4,540 m/sNo, sound travels fastest through solids.
