Why does sound travel through some materials better than others?

Heat can and does travel through all matter. It's just that some materials carry it much slower than others, and these are called insulators. The best ones being foam type materials. ...

Heat in the form of infrared radiation can travel through many mediums, and some better than others. It can also travel through the vacuum of space. The more transparent the medium is to infrared radiation, the better it will travel through it. ...

Some, but not all. Some materials are insulators- heat does not travel well through them. ...

Sound can travel through a variety of materiels.

sound can travel through air , water and lots more

Waves travel faster through denser materials. However, Electromagnetic waves travel faster through less dense materials. It travels fastest in vacuum. ...

Sound needs a medium to travel. It cannot travel through a vaccum.

light cant travel through opague materials, or anything you cant see through. ...

yes, they travel through water, air, even solid materials. electromagnetic waves can also travel through a vacuum. ...

Sound travels faster through materials with higher densities, like metals

Yes, yes it does. Yes because it can travel through anything 102 degrees

Sound needs a medium in order to travel. Thus, it cannot travel through vacuums, like space. ...

The name is "electromagnetic waves". They can travel through empty space, and - depending on the specific frequency - through certain materials. For example, light can travel through glass. ...

P waves travel through solids, liquids, and gases. S waves travel through solids only. ...

Yes.

Insulators- do not let heat through

Sound waves will travel through gases, liquids, and solids. Sound waves cannot pass through a vacuum. ...

Small enough pieces of anything.

I'm pretty sure they can travel through matter It depends on the matter, but many materials will transmit sound. ...

Electromagnetic radiation passes through materials it does not interact strongly with and which do not present many interfaces where there is a transition between materials of different density. ...

because waves travel faster through denser materials like the above materials. ...

There are many materials that light can not travel through which are called opaque objects. ...

Sound waves can travel through any many different materials. It travels farthest through metal than liquid and finally through air. ...

Spongy materials are the most difficult for sound to travel through. Vacuum is the best acoustic insulation but it doesn't really count for the purpose of this question, since it is not a material but a lack of material. ...

Sounds travel better through denser objects and since water is denser than wood, sound travels through it better. ...