Question

How is the speed of a sound wave different when traveling through a solid liquid and gas?

Answer 1

Answer:-

The speed of sound is not a constant. It varies from medium to medium and depends on factors such as temperature etc.

When sound is travelling through a solid, it has fastest speed because it travels fastest in solids. It is so because sound need more particles for it's propagation and as we know that particles of solids are way more closer than any other form. That is why sound travel fastest in the solids.

Now in liquids, sound travels slower than in solids because as we know that the particles of liquid are not tightly packed. Due to this, sound travels slower in the liquids.

Now in gases, sound travels at the slowest speed because the particles of the gases are scattered the most due to which sound propagates at very slow velocity.