Competency #9
Answer and Explanation
In old spaghetti westerns frequently villains were seen holding their ears to train tracks to find out if the train was coming. Did this really work?
Answer:
The correct answer is C.
Since the particles in a solid are packed together much closer than the particles in a gas, the vibrations in a solid can travel faster than the vibrations in the air.
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