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Why do waves move faster at higher temperatures and in a solid phase?
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Why do waves move faster at higher temperatures and in a solid phase?

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Higher temperatures means more energy, and a solid phase means the particles are close together. This results in highly energized particles that bump into the particles close to them, who in turn bump into more particles.
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