Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Can sound travel through solids and liquids ? In which of these two does it travel faster ?
Advertisements
Solution
Sound travels with the highest speed in - solids.
and Sound travels with the lowest speed in - gases.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Write the approximate speed of sound in air.
Which of the following is the speed of sound in copper and which in aluminium?
(a) 5100 m/s
(b) 1500 m/s
(c) 3750 m/s
A man is kidnapped, blindfolded and imprisoned in a big room. How could the man tell if he was in : a village
The speed of highly penetrating ultrasonic waves is :
Fill in the blank and explain.
The velocity of sound in steel is ______ than the velocity of sound in water.
The velocity of sound in air at a particular temperature is 330 ms–1. What will be its value when temperature is doubled and the pressure is halved?
A strong sound signal is sent from a ship towards the bottom of the sea. It is received back after 1s. What is the depth of sea given that the speed of sound in water 1450 ms–1?
The speed of sound in a gaseous medium depends on ______.
Assertion: The speed of sound in air is less than the speed of sound in solid.
Reason: If we increase the temperature of medium, the speed of sound increases in any medium.
On which factors does the speed of sound in the solid medium depend?
