Explain why there is a delay between the arrival of the sound transmitted through the steel pipe and the sound transmitted by the air in the pipe.

The speed of sound in steel is about 17 times as fast as it's speed in air.

Naturally, when a sound starts out at one end of a pipe, it reaches the other end thru the steel before it reaches the other end thru the air in the pipe.

The longer the pipe is, the longer will be the delay between the arrival of the two sounds at the other end.

force is based upon mass and acceleration.the statement is not always true.

it can be explained from newton's second law of motion.

as per newton's second law of motion the rate of change of momentum is directly proportional to the applied force and takes place along the direction of force.

mathematically it can be written as -

                                              ⇒      

here   k is the proportionality constant whose value is 1.

                                                            [a is the acceleration=dv/dt]

hence we see that force not only depends on mass and acceleration but also on velocity and rate of change of mass. force f will depend on mass and acceleration only when mass is constant.

hence the statement that force is based upon mass and acceleration is false.