Your class is performing an experiment that involves dropping an object from a great height. Your job is to minimize the damage to the object. Use your knowledge of impulse, force, and collision time to complete the sentence, using the drop-down menus.

The speed of sound in ice, water, and steam is shown. what best explains the speed of sound in different states of matter? sound travels fastest in ice because energy is easier to transfer when the molecules are close together. sound travels slowest in steam because the sound has to move around the gas molecules that are far apart. sound travels fastest in ice because the temperature of solids is always greater, so the heat transfers the sound energy. sound travels slowest in steam because the pressure is so great the sound cannot travel though the steam particles.