Westonci.ca is the premier destination for reliable answers to your questions, provided by a community of experts. Get immediate and reliable solutions to your questions from a knowledgeable community of professionals on our platform. Explore comprehensive solutions to your questions from knowledgeable professionals across various fields on our platform.

Sound travels faster through rigid material like steel rather than through spongy materials like rubber. Why?

Sagot :

since sound travels using mechanical waves and needs a material medium to propagate and since mechanical waves spread through vibrations ...and since hard materials have their atoms packed closely....they need to vibrate with a smaller amplitude to pass on the wave....thus sound travels faster in a denser medium than a less dense one.