A few days ago
kamajamom

What does it mean….?

to ‘break the sound barrier’?

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A few days ago
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To travel faster than the speed of sound, which is roughly 760 miles per hour. That speed is also known as Mach 1.
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A few days ago
g
Sound travels through air at approximately 300 miles per second (300 m/s). If something moves through air faster than that, it creates a, “sonic boom,” by breaking the sound barrier.

Light, by the way, travels thousands and thousands of times faster, which is why we might see the smoke of a cannon shot a second before we hear the boom.

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A few days ago
wheeliebin
The speed of sound is 1238 km/hour or 769 mp/hour so if an aircraft goes faster than that, then it is going faster than sound and a resulting ‘boom’ is heard which is very similar to a clap of thunder. Have a good day.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
break the sound barrier – travel faster than sound (which is about 750+ miles per hour), traveling in supersonic speeds.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
When the airplane travels faster than sound
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A few days ago
Anonymous
its when something (most likely a jet) goes faster then the speed of sound
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