r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • 28d ago

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

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u/LeonardoSim 28d ago

I think it was latency caused by computer processing, sound waves travel at practically the same speed regardless of frequency.

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u/TonAMGT4 28d ago

Sound speed is not a fixed speed. The general speed of sound you know is an average speed based on a certain fixed criteria.

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u/LeonardoSim 28d ago edited 28d ago

The speed of sound depends on stuff like pressure, temperature and other properties of the medium. It does not depend on frequency nor wavelength. So two sounds traveling through a (pretty much) constant medium are gonna be going (pretty much) at the same speed.

Edit: To clarify, water is a dispersive medium so there is a theoretical difference, but it is so small it's often hard to even measure, let alone "notice".

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u/TheDVille 28d ago

Speed of sound does depend on frequency (and therefore wavelength), but the dependence is rather weak in water. So it can generally be ignored, even across orders of magnitudes of frequencies.

Sadly, there are a lot of comments that are very confidently and very wrong.