if you place your ears close to an iron railing and your friend taps it at some distance away you hear the sound twice why is it so

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Solution

Sound travels faster in a solos than it does in air.
therefore we first hear the sound which is travelled through the iron and then the sound of the same phenomenon that is travelled through the air.

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