What does sound travel the fastest throught wood, water, vacuum or air

Consider an insulating crystal, made up of layers of atoms. what form would you expect the temperature dependence of the phonon heat capacity to approach at extremely low temperatures if the interlayer coupling is i)very strong (rigid coupling), and ii) very weak. explain.

An object in mechanical equilibrium is an object

For the below questions, consider a consumer that consumes two goods, x and z with the following utility function. u with bar on top space equals space x to the power of 1 third end exponent z to the power of 2 over 3 end exponent suppose initial values for income and the prices of goods x and z are y equals 90, p subscript x equals space 10, and p subscript z equals 15 respectively, then the price of good x falls to syntax error from line 1 column 89 to line 1 column 100. unexpected '\'.. what is the magnitude of the total effect