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प्रश्न
Write the answer in your own words.
Explain with the help of practical examples how sound is propagated through solids.
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उत्तर १
Sound is propagated in the form of waves in solids. It can be explained clearly from the below examples:
- Place your ear on one end of a long table. Ask your friend to tap the table from the other end. You can hear the produced sound. Sound reaches your ear after travelling through the table. This indicates that sound can travel through solids and in the form of waves.
- A stethoscope is another example of sound travelling through solids. Doctors use stethoscopes to listen to our heartbeat.
उत्तर २
Sound propagates with maximum speed through the solid medium. We can hear the sound of a train that is far off by placing our ear to the railway track. If we knock at the door. The person inside the room can hear it clearly.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blank.
Sound requires a ________ for propagation.
Out of solids, liquids and gases :
(a) in which medium sound travels slowest?
(b) in which medium sound travels fastest?
Through which of the following materials can sound travel? wood, air, water, steam, ice, hydrogen, steel, diamond.
The velocities of sound waves in four media P, Q, R and S are 18,000 km/h, 900 km/h, 0 km/h and 1200 km/h respectively. Which medium could be a liquid substance?
State two properties of medium on which the speed of sound in it depends.
How are bats able to avoid obstacles in their way?
State three characteristics of the medium required for the propagation of sound.
Sound cannot travel in ______.
In any medium, as the ______ increases, the speed of sound also increases.
the speed of sound in air is 331 ms-1 at ______ and ______ at 22°C.
