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A Sound Question
A Sound Question
Does sound travel farther over a cool area like a frozen lake or over a warm area such as a desert?
- A. It travels farther over a cool area because the sound is refracted toward or along the ground.
- B. Neither, although sound travels faster in warm air then in cool air, it will travel the same distance in either case.
- C. Over a warm area. Since the sound travel faster, it has less time to be attenuated or absorbed and will travel farther.
- D. I saw Julie Andrews in the Sound Of Music. Does that count?