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Grade 9General Physics

Why does the echo for soundwaves hitting a vacuum come back out of phase?

Profile image of rishav kumar
12 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
Answer is simple.
Vaccumn doesnot provides a free path to travek the sound easily as the vacumn has zero molecules of air or anything. which hence doesn’t provides the medium for the sound to travel.
And hence it comes back to phase.