sound travels fastest through which of the following?gas, liquid, or solid?

Question

can you give me the correct answer please

Answer 1

It travels fastest thru the most dense material, which would be a solid.
If you put your ear on a railroad track when a train is coming you will hear it much sooner than you would if you were just standing there waiting for the sound to get to your ear thru the air.

Answer 2

As a rule, sound travels fastest through solids (rigid solids that is), next fastest through liquids and finally slowest through gases. It is all about propogation of sound waves and how they can disperse and attenuate. Rigid solids, especially very rigid metals for example allow good propogation and the atoms are not that mobile within the crystaline like matrix that makes up the solid. Gasses on the other hand consist of highly mobile molecules unconnected to one another at all so propogation is impaired. There is also more space between molecules thus further affecting propogation. Liquids are part way between solid and gas and for the sake of simplicity you can interpolate between the two.

Answer 3

Solid. If you put your ear to the ground when a train's coming (but farther away), then you can hear it through the ground if you can't hear it in the air. Sound travels best through a solid, then a liquid, and worst through a gas.

Answer 4

it travles faster through solids faster. the reason being is the molocules in solids are close together so there is less space for sound waves to travel through. water is second and gas is last.

Answer 5

Its solid.

Answer 6

solid

Answer 7

Solid! So there!

Answer 8

Heh. Pretty much what everyone else said.. solid. ^_^

Answer 9

a solid, its denser

Answer 10

dido!