Excerpt Taken From Washington Post Article by Ann Posegate, October 2, 2008
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2008/10/weather_and_baseball.html
Humidity
High humidity actually yields air that is less dense, thus providing less air resistance for a traveling ball and allowing it to go further. This is an interesting and counterintuitive fact due to water vapor being lighter (in mass) than oxygen and nitrogen in air. Taking it back to high school chemistry, density equals mass over volume. The more water vapor that's present in the air, the lighter and less resistant the air is.
Temperature
Air expands as it warms. So warm air is less dense -- there's more space between the air molecules -- than cold air. Warm temperatures therefore also help a ball to travel a bit farther.
Cold fronts generally travel faster than warm fronts. Cold air is denser and more forceful, allowing cold fronts to advance quicker than warm fronts which are characterized by more gradual temperature differences.
it travels faster in warner air since cold particles dont move very fast because they do not have much energy. then when warm air enters the particles they start moving faster and vibrating faster which moves sound along alot faster. hope this helps :).
The sound travel faster in warm air because the average mean speed of the molecules of air is faster in warm air than on cool air. Sound is transferred by collisions of molecules. Therefore sound waves will travel faster on warm air because collisions of molecules of air in warm air is greater.
Sound travels faster in warm air because the molecules are more spread out, allowing sound waves to move more quickly. In cold air, molecules are closer together, which slows down the transmission of sound waves.
It sinks faster in hot water than warm or cold
cold water faster
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Warm water of course.
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Sound travels faster through warmer water because warm water molecules are more spread out, allowing sound waves to travel more quickly. Cold water, with its denser and more closely packed molecules, slows down the transmission of sound waves.
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