While watching a popular space-based science fiction movie, space vehicles loudly shoot each other with lasers and explode with a booming sound. Students of science know that sound does not travel through space and these movie scenes showing space sounds are factually incorrect. Why are there no sounds in space?

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

A	Sound waves travel as transverse waves
B	Sound waves require a medium
C	Sound waves can only travel through air particles
D	Sound waves have high frequencies

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Light and sound waves are similar-in that they both have an amplitude, a wavelength, a period and a frequency.

Detailed explanation-2: -The frequency is the number of waves that pass a point in space during any time interval, usually one second. We measure it in units of cycles (waves) per second, or hertz. The frequency of visible light is referred to as color, and ranges from 430 trillion hertz, seen as red, to 750 trillion hertz, seen as violet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Light waves across the electromagnetic spectrum behave in similar ways. When a light wave encounters an object, they are either transmitted, reflected, absorbed, refracted, polarized, diffracted, or scattered depending on the composition of the object and the wavelength of the light.

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