Speed of sound will be slowest in
Select one:
a. Oil
b. Steel
c. Hydrogen gas
As we know speed of the sound depends on the medium in which it travels.
This speed is thus to be calculated through ratio of elasticity and density.
Which leads us to give that sound travels fastest through solids, slower through liquids and slowest through gases.
Vsolid>vliquid>vgas
Here we see that steel is solid, water and oil is liquid and hydrogen gas is a gas.
Which means hyrogen gas being a gaseous state has lowest speed that is slowest speed of sound traveled (option - c).
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