How sounds

travel?
Sound travels in mechanical waves. A mechanical wave is a disturbance
that moves and transports energy from one place to another through a
medium. In sound, the disturbance is a vibrating object. And the
medium can be any series of interconnected and interactive particles.
This means that sound can travel through gases, liquids and solids.
Sound waves need to travel through a medium such as a solid,
liquid, or gas. The sound waves move through each of these
mediums by vibrating the molecules in the matter. The molecules in
solids are packed very tightly. Liquids are not packed as tightly as
solids. And gases are very loosely packed. The spacing of the
molecules enables sound to travel much faster through a solid than
a gas. Sound travels about four times faster and farther in water
than it does in air. This is why whales can communicate over huge
distances in the oceans. Sound waves travel about thirteen times
faster in wood than air. They also travel faster on hotter days as the
molecules bump into each other more often than when it is cold
Let's take a look at an example. Imagine a church bell. When a bell
rings, it vibrates, which means the bell itself flexes inward and
outward very rapidly. As the bell moves outward, it pushes against
particles of air. Those air particles then push against other adjacent
air particles, and so on. As the bell flexes inward, it pulls against the
adjacent air particles, and they, in turn, pull against other air
particles. This push and pull pattern is a sound wave. The vibrating
bell is the original disturbance, and the air particles are the medium.
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