How and why does the Speed of Sound change based on the material it goes through.?
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The vibration of a particle at one place is transmitted to the adjacent particle.\n \nThe transmission of vibration energy from one point to another is sound transmission. \n\nThe transmission is not instantaneous. There is a time delay.\n\nThe delayed transmission of energy from one point to another makes the sound to travel with a particular speed. \n\nWhat makes this delay? That is your question. \n\nEvery body is elastic to one or another degree.\n\nLet a body be distorted by a force for a short duration. The body restores itself to its original form. Every body has this elastic property.\n\n This property is the reason that any   mechanical action is transmitted with a finite velocity.\n\nImagine a perfectly rigid rod. This rod by definition cannot be deformed.\n\nAn action of a force on such a rod would be able to move the rod as a unit and the energy will dissipate instantaneously.\n\nTherefore a perfectly rigid body cannot transmit sound. (Velocity of sound is zero)\n\nNext consider a perfectly plastic body.  This body by definition will not return to its original form after distortion.\n\nTherefore a perfectly plastic body also cannot transmit sound. (Velocity of sound is zero)\n\nThus the speed of sound depends upon the elastic property of the materials used.\n\nThe air is highly compressible and takes some time to return to its original form when compared to liquid which are not so compressible and take lesser time to return to original form.\n\nTherefore sound travels with less speed in air than in liquid.\n\nThe density of the substance also plays an important role; If the mass is greater the restoring force gives less acceleration to the particle.
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Frequency is in Hertz which is cycles/second, and the period is the length of each cycle in seconds, so they are related.\n\nThe wavelength is 2.69 m/cycle and speed of sound is 346m/s.  So divide the second by the first to get cycles per second -- look at the units and see what you have to do to get cycles on top and seconds on the bottom, and cancel out meters.\n\n346/2.69 = 128.6 Hz\n\nThe period is the inverse of this, seconds/cycle \n\n1/128.6 = 0.00777 seconds
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Through any transparent or translucent material medium, like glass or air, it has a lower speed than in a vacuum; the ratio of c to this slower speed is called the refractive index of the medium (the actual speed is not affected, the speed of light is constant, the fact that the light is reflected around inside the glass will make a greater amount of time necessary for it to reach the next point). Changes of gravity, however, warp the space the light has to travel through,
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The speed doesn't change.  Wavelength is speed/frequency, so if the frequency doubles and the speed stays the same, the wavelength is cut in half.
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sound travels the fastest in solids.slower in liquids and slowest in gases.\nso the answers to tour question is it travels faster in ice\nthe volume has nothing to do with the speed of sound.it is only the physical form,solid,liquid or gas
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When you are sitting in an airplane, the air around you is traveling with you in that "bubble" which is the airplane.  Therefore, sound acts the same as it would on the ground.  Sound is carried in air (and to some degree, other materials), but not in a vacuum.  So the paradoxes which crop up about traveling faster than light do not apply to traveling faster than sound.
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1,000000,0000000 that is how fast sound really is.\n\nbut to answer you question just listen and watch a jet after the jet passes then it takes 15 seconds before you here the sound because the jet has broken through the sound barrier.
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None, sound is a wave not a particle. Sound is just a wave of vibrations travelling through atoms.
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<LOL> NO! The doppler effect is about compression and rarifaction of a wave generated by a source moving through space. Time can only change with a warping of spacetime itself. Apples and oranges.
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At normal atmospheric pressure, the temperature dependence of the speed of a sound wave through air is approximated by the following equation:\n\nv = 331 m/s + (0.6 m/s/C)*T\nwhere T is the temperature of the air in degrees Celsius. Using this equation is used to determine the speed of a sound wave in air at a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius yields the following solution.\n\nv = 331 m/s + (0.6 m/s/C)*T \nv = 331 m/s + (0.6 m/s/C)*20 C\n\nv = 331 m/s + 12 m/s\n\nv = 343 m
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Well, the speed of sound (Mach 1) varies between 660 mph and 800 mph, depending on altitude (see the attached chart). High subsonic would be from about Mach 0.85 to Mach 1.
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well actually sound is a series of vibrations and rarefractions, so when it is passed through the air the vibration is passing through the air molecules, and depending on the thickness or thinness of the air,the sound will go a further distance, also note that how loud the sound is must be taken into account. sound is not simply "absorbed" into the air, it is just the amount of strength the rarefraction and vibration is, now when there is wind, you have to take into account that sound is like an object, it will have wind resistance, or in a way. newtons second law i believe states, every force excerted onto another will  excert force equally or more back upon that object. so it is bassically just sound dying out because the vibration has no longer the power to be carried through the air.
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Because of it's wave-like characteristics.\nSame thing happens to sound.  Travels faster in water than in air.  If you are underwater, and you hear a firecracker go off in the air above you, when that sound is passes to the water, the water molecules being more dense, will transmit it faster.\nNo more energy is added, nor does it pick up energy, but the medium vibrates at a faster frequency with the same amount of energy.\nThe amount of energy a wave has does not correspond to the speed at which it travels.
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Mach is the speed of sound. So Mach 3 is three times the speed of sound.
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its impulse change in momentum
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Speed of sound is dependent on temperature. Speed of sound is directly proportional to the square root of pressure and inversely proportional to the square root of the density of the medium.\nv is proportional to P(pressure) and inversely proportional to D(density)\nP/D=RT/M    where R is the gas constant, T is the absolute temperature and M is the molecular mass.\n\nTherefore, Pressure is directly proportional to the absolute temperature of the gas.\nHence,\nv is directly proportional to the temperature.
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The speed of sound in air depends on a number of factors - air temperature and pressure.  Generally the higher the altitude the lower the speed of sound.\n\nIn air, sound waves travel at around 330 metres/second (when the air temperature is 0 degrees centigrade). At 40 degrees centigrade (a very very hot day) the velocity increases to 354 metres/second in air.\n\nThe average figure for speed of sound at standard temperature and pressure is quoted as 343 metres per second or 767 miles per hour.