SCIENCE
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sound travels fastest through solids. This is because molecules in a solid medium are much closer together than those in a liquid or gas, allowing sound waves to travel more quickly through it. In fact, sound waves travel over 17 times faster through steel than through air. Q.
Detailed explanation-2: -Of the three mediums (gas, liquid, and solid) sound waves travel the slowest through gases, faster through liquids, and fastest through solids.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sound travels fastest through solid. This is because molecules in solid are most closely packed.
Detailed explanation-4: -As a rule sound travels slowest through gases, faster through liquids, and fastest through solids.
Detailed explanation-5: -Sound travels in a medium as a series of compressions and rarefactions. Sound waves cant travel through a vacuum. Sound travels faster in solids, (here wood-solid) hence the speed of sound is directly proportional to density.