There are a few questions only on this site about this but none of them answer my question. Can cannonballs go through water? Why does a bullet bounce off water? I find it hard to understand why bullets shoot through water at longer distances but stop in sand almost right away: Both water and sa...

When a droplet of water hits the surface of a lake it produces ripples that travel outward. My conception is that it travels at the speed of sound on water (since sound are nothing less that perturbations on the medium). But ripples travel much slower than that. What's happening? Is my conception...