Sound Needs a Medium to travel


 
 
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Sound Needs a Medium to travel

Sound Needs a Medium to Travel:

Sound needs a medium to propagate or travels.Sound travels through solid liquid and gas but the sound does not pass through vaccum.

Sounds are made in a variety of ways but all involves vibrations. A tuning fork produces a sound as it vibrates back and forth, a guitar string moves up and down producing a sound when it is plucked.Sound needs a medium to propagate. Velocity of sounds is maximum in solids and least in gases.

large v_{solid}> v_{liquid}>v_{gas}

                                       

                                                                                    A tuning fork

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Question : 1

Sound cannot travel in __________________.

Right Option : D
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Question : 2

A wave travels through a medium with a speed of 340 m/s. If the frequency of the wave is doubled, what happens to the wave speed ?

Right Option : B
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Question : 3

A body travelling with a speed more than velocity of sound in air is said to travel with

Right Option : A
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