Speed Of Sound Varies Greatly In Different Media
A reader asks about how fast sound travels and notes lightning and thunder timing. It explains sound moves faster in water and steel than in air, with numbers: water about 4.3 times faster than air and steel about four times faster than water, plus notes on insulators and slow gas motion.
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