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Why would a person under water hear a sound before a person in a boat does?
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How would you prove that sound travels through water?
Buy an air horn. Find a pool of water big enough to put your head in and the air horn. with your head under water have a friend stand far enough away 50ft or so and submerge the airhorn and depress the top. If you hear it sound travels under water. The cheap way is for two people to go under water and one yells. you will hear the other person and prove sound travels under water.
Why can't sound travel under water?
Sound does travel under water otherwise the Humpback would be wasting its time singing!
What is the sounds of a yacht?
When under power the sound of the engine and water lapping at the hull. When under sail the sound of water lapping at the hull.
How does being under water affect your hearing?
Sound travels faster under water. Thus when you are under water you can hear sounds OK, but you are unable to discern where the sounds are coming from like you can in air. This is because you ears/brain work out direction by the time delay of sound reaching each ear (your ears are a little distance apart thus sound from one direction hits one ear before the other). Under water because sound travels faster the delay is too short for the brain to distinguish.
Why is sound louder under water?
sound is not louder in water because of the water that is in your ears and the sound would be very faint.
Can sound travel through under water and how?
Sound is simply the vibration of matter so it exists under water, in rocks, and even in lava.
Why is it when a sound wave impacts a bubble under water It creates light?
The sound wave creates light when it impacts a bubble under water because of the acoustics.
What happens when sound travels?
Sound travels by creating vibrations in the air. (Or in the water if the source and/or the reciever are under water.) These vibrations in the air are sound.
Can sound go through water?
Yes sound can go through water because when you say hi under water you are producing air buble that make sound.
If a sea plane lands in water does a person in the water hear it first or a person on land?
It depends. Imagine the sound is that of the pontoons slapping the water, and the person on land and the person in the water are equidistant. In that case, the person in the water would hear the sound first (albeit more muffled) because water is a denser medium than air, and thus sound waves (vibrations) travel faster through it.
Does sound travel under water?
yes, of course.
Can sound waves be produce under water?
maybe
