JOELLEYGONZALEZ8143GO JOELLEYGONZALEZ8143GO Physics Answered You have a 40-Hz sound wave and a 5,000-Hz sound wave. Both are traveling through steel. Which sound wave will travel faster? The waves will travel at the same speed as one another. The 40-Hz wave will travel the fastest. The 5,000-Hz wave will travel the fastest. The louder of the two sound waves with travel the fastest.