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High pitched sound has a high speed?

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Answer:

Frequency of sound has no impact on the speed of sound (which is ~343 m/s in the air at STP).

Consider sound to be waves (as is the correct assumption). When one hears a low frequency sound, fewer sound waves are passing by the listener in a finite period of time than are passing by when a high frequency sound is heard.

Think of the high frequency sound as being "more compressed" rather than "faster."

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