Eli5: Do Sound Waves get affected by Gravity?

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Eli5: Do Sound Waves get affected by Gravity?

In: Physics

Answer 1

On the very most pedantic “akhtuahly” level, they are.  

Sound is a mechanical wave, a motion of particles. And particle motion is affected by gravity, so sound has to be as well. 

But it’s such a miniscule effect that it might as well not exist. I honestly can’t even tell if we’d have the capacity to actually ever measure it. I don’t want to be the one to calculate it.