Make up your mind Google AI. Is sound faster in air that is less dense or more dense?

Honestly, there is so much wrong in the AI answers that it’s hard to know where to start, but the direct contradiction of itself seems like a good start.

  • Gladaed@feddit.org
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    17 days ago

    This seems like a difficult thing to get right. To me it would intuitively seem like air transmits sound easier than e.g. water or steel since there is less to dampen the waves. But that’s just wrong. You shouldn’t trust intuition when it comes to physics, even if you are a physicist.

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      17 days ago

      I’m not a physicist and I’m taking a stab without looking it up.

      Is there an index of refraction or something so that if you transmit through air than water than air you would think that sound is “dampened”?

      I’m having a hard time with just an object though. Is the speed of sound a constant? I’ve never heard it defined with respect to to air