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Does mechanical waves travel faster through vacuum than through air?
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∙ 11y ago
Mechanical waves are waves that need medium to propagate so they don`t travel through vacuum but through solid , liquid or gas.
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Is light an example of mechanical wave?
No. Light is an example of an electromagnetic wave, which can travel through a vacuum. Mechanical waves must travel through a medium, and cannot travel through a vacuum.
What do Mechanical waves must travel through?
Mechanical waves may travel through any medium except vacuum.
Electromagnetic waves can travel through a?
Vacuum
Where can sounds not travel?
Sound cannot travel in a vacuum. Sound is mechanical energy, and it travels by the transfer of mechanical energy through the medium through which it is traveling. If there is nothing to transfer the mechanical energy, like there is nothing in a vacuum, sound cannot travel there.
Can mechanical waves travel through any type of medium?
Yes, except vacuum. Only Electromagnetic waves can travel through vacuum.
Is light an example of mechanical wave?
No. Light is an example of an electromagnetic wave, which can travel through a vacuum. Mechanical waves must travel through a medium, and cannot travel through a vacuum.
What do Mechanical waves must travel through?
Mechanical waves may travel through any medium except vacuum.
Electromagnetic waves can travel through a?
Vacuum
Where can sounds not travel?
Sound cannot travel in a vacuum. Sound is mechanical energy, and it travels by the transfer of mechanical energy through the medium through which it is traveling. If there is nothing to transfer the mechanical energy, like there is nothing in a vacuum, sound cannot travel there.
Can mechanical waves travel through any type of medium?
Yes, except vacuum. Only Electromagnetic waves can travel through vacuum.
Unlike mechanical waves electromagnetic waves can travel through .?
Vacuum
Does light travel faster through air water vacuum or glass?
it travels faster through air.
What does light travel faster through?
Light travels fastest through vacuum.
What can sounds not travel through?
Since sound is a mechanical wave (it needs a substance to travel through) it cannot travel through a vacuum.
Can anything travel faster than the speed of light through a vacuum?
No.
Why does light travel faster through empty space than matter?
It doesn't travel faster through a vacuum. In our Universe there is no such thing as empty space.
Is it true that unlike mechanical waves electromagnetic waves can travel through a vacuum such as you would find in space?
Correct, electromagnetic waves can travel through a vacuum. Sunlight is an example of this.
