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The speed of sound depends greatly on the substance through which the sound waves travel. The speed of sound through air is faster than through other more dense gases such as carbon dioxide, but slower through lighter gases such as hydrogen. The speed of sound, only a little more than 1,000 feet per second through dry air, is almost a mile per second (amost five times faster) through water, two miles per second through copper, and more than three miles per second through steel.
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∙ 13y agoYes, sound needs a medium through which to travel. Air is less dense than water or solid. Sound travels faster the higher the density of the medium.
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∙ 13y agoSound travel slowest in gas. Actually, it is not in vacuum. In Vacuum sound cannot travel at all.
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∙ 12y agoThe denser the matter the faster sound will travel through so even the least dense matter (aerogel) would be faster than through air.
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What are the phases of matter from fastest to slowest that sound travels through?
It is fastest from Solid to Liquid to Gas. The next phase of matter after a gas is a plasma as in the solar wind.
Sound travels the slowest through which of these?
The speed of sound in a material is dependent on several factors. Basically it travels through denser materials at a different rate than rarefied materials, through compressible materials at a different rate than incompressible materials, and through stiffer materials at a different rate than nonrigid materials. A slower velocity of sound would be noted in a dense, compressible nonrigid material.
The speed of sound is slowest in what type of matter?
sound cannot travel through a vacum
What material can sound energy travel through slowly?
The more closely packed molecules are in a medium, the faster sound travels through the medium, so sound travels slowest through a gas under low pressure.
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.
Why does sound travel slowest through gas than trough other forms of matter?
Sound travels slower through less dense matter because sound is the result of molecules hitting each other. When there are fewer molecules for the vibrating molecules to bump into, sound travels slower.
Sound travels through which type of matter?
Sound travels through all matter.
What does travel through slowest?
Sound travels slowest through air because the particles in the air are spread apart.
What are the phases of matter from fastest to slowest that sound travels through?
It is fastest from Solid to Liquid to Gas. The next phase of matter after a gas is a plasma as in the solar wind.
Sound travels the slowest through which of these?
The speed of sound in a material is dependent on several factors. Basically it travels through denser materials at a different rate than rarefied materials, through compressible materials at a different rate than incompressible materials, and through stiffer materials at a different rate than nonrigid materials. A slower velocity of sound would be noted in a dense, compressible nonrigid material.
Is sound considered matter?
No, sound travels through matter but is not matter itself.
The speed of sound is slowest in what type of matter?
sound cannot travel through a vacum
What material can sound energy travel through slowly?
The more closely packed molecules are in a medium, the faster sound travels through the medium, so sound travels slowest through a gas under low pressure.
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.
Can sound travel faster in air?
sound travels so fast because it feels like it
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
What material travels slowest in sound?
by air
