Asound wave traveling downward with a speed of about 4,000 m/s suddenly slows to 1,500 m/s not far below the earth’s surface. what has the sound wave most likely encountered? (its b) a. a different kind of rock b. an underground lake c. an open cavityd. a pile of dinosaur bones

Speed of sound wave depends on the elasticity of medium

It is given by formula

now if we are given that initially sound wave is travelling with speed 4000 m/s

Then its speed becomes 1500 m/s

so here since speed is decreased by large value

so here elasticity must decreased by large amount

A. a different kind of rock

B. an underground lake

C. an open cavity

D. a pile of dinosaur bones

So in above all options the density is changed or decreased by large value if the medium is changed to solid to liquid

So the correct answer will be

B. an underground lake

The sound wave most likely to be encountered in case of an underground lake. Hence, option (B) is correct.

Given data:

The initial speed of sound wave is, u = 4000 m/s.

The final speed of sound wave is, v = 1500 m/s.

Generally, the speed of sound wave depends on the density and the Elasticity of the medium. Then, the expression for the speed of sound is given as,

Here, E is the Elasticity of medium and is the density of medium.

Since, we are given the initial and final speed of sound wave as 4000 m/s and 1500 m/s. Clearly, there is huge drop in the speeds of wave, this may cause either there is huge increment in density of medium or huge decrement in the Elasticity of medium.

So in above all the given options the density is changed or decreased by large value if the medium is changed to solid to liquid. And this possible only in case of underground lake.

Thus, we can conclude that the sound wave most likely to be encountered in case of an underground lake. Hence, option (B) is correct.

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quantum physics has some parallels to our macro world and some pretty unique ideas which theoretically and mathematically proven to be true even though we will never be able to access them because of our size.

there are many types of particles: subatomic, elementary etc.

subatomic means they are smaller than atom, elementary means they are at the very basis of everything.

subatomic particles are for eg. protons, neutrons but not electrons.

elementary particles are categorised into 3 groups by what they do.

these 3 groups are quarks, leptons and bosons.

light for example is a particle more precisely a photon a part of leptons.

proton (subatomic particle) is made out of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark each of these has a fractional charge like . (i crazy)

most famous scientist who contributed to this physics are:

the topic itself us understand a lot and will probably be vastly used in the future (quantum computers, understanding the big bang,

we also must not forget quantum effects like:

and there is more. but probably too much for this answer to be consistent due to my average understanding of this topic.

hope this you understand quantum mechanics a little more. i'm not an expert in the topic (so don't be like wth if you are an expert) but i'm very interested in it.

anyways quantum physics is a very hard topic (harder than physics (perhaps)) therefore searching for every information there is about it and learning it is unfortunately impossible (you can only specialise into 1 - 3 things or more (perhaps

have fun and i wish you luck!

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