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stealth61 [152]
3 years ago
8

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

Physics
1 answer:
drek231 [11]3 years ago
3 0
<span>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.</span>
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