A student claims: "When someone speaks

PHYSICS · Subjective · CBSE · Physics · Sound · Sound

Problem

A student claims: "When someone speaks, the air that leaves the speaker’s mouth travels all the way to the listener’s ear." Identify the conceptual mistake in this statement and correct it in one or two sentences.

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