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No. There is no "normal" speed for electrons: they move at a wide range of speeds. When carrying electricity in a domestic wire, the actual speed of individual electrons is less than 1 millimetre per second! On the other hand, electrons in an atom can travel around the nucleus at over a million metres per second - though this motion is not like planetary orbits around the sun. However, this is nowhere near the speed of light which is appox 300 million metres per second.
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∙ 13y agoThey can get pretty close to the speed of light in a particle accelerator.
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∙ 11y agoJust like any other object with mass, electrons can move at any speed from zero up to ...
if you can give them enough energy ... almost but not quite the speed of light.
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∙ 7y agoNo, they do not.
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∙ 13y agoyes they do
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∙ 14y agoYes.
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Can electrons move slower than the speed of light?
They can ONLY move slower than the speed of light.
What of the following statements about the speed of light is true?
nothing can move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum APEXXX
Does an electron move with the speed of light or not?
Nothing that has mass when it's stationary can move at the speed of light. Electrons can move at any lesser speed. In modern particle accelerators, they can be boosted to 0.99999c. But every additional ' 9 ' requires ten times as much energy as the previous one did.
Can nothingness No matter energy etc Travel faster than light If so how fast?
Think about that question. When you say nothing that means that there is nothing to measure the speed of. And nothing can move faster than light, nothing, There is a fixed amount of speed something can have. As speed increases time slows down and at light speed no time passes therefore it is impossible for anything or "nothing" in your questions case can move faster than light. Then again im only 15 so i could wrong but i am answering to the best of my knowladge.
How fast does an object need to move to break the speed of sound?
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, which means you have to travel faster than that to break the light barrier. This feat is technically "impossible", since the faster you move, the more mass you have and the more mass you have, the more energy is required to move you, and by the time you reach the speed of light, you will need to have infinite energy. This doesn't apply to light particles, since they have no mass.
Do electrons move faster than the speed of light?
No. Because of their mass, they travel slower than c.
Which is faster and why speed or light?
Light is faster because speed does not move. Speed is a measure of the rate of movement but, in itself, it does not move - at all!
Can electrons move slower than the speed of light?
They can ONLY move slower than the speed of light.
What type of waves move faster than speed of light?
So far nothing is found to move at a faster speed than that of light.
Why you cannot accelerate electrons greater than the velocity of light in free space?
Nothing can be made to move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum; for objects that move slower than light, even reaching the speed of light would require an infinite energy.
Conconde flies faster than the speed of light?
No. The Concorde flew faster than the speed of sound. Nothing can move faster than the speed of light.
Can Naruto move faster than light?
No. No object can move faster then light. However, Minato Namikaze (the Fourth Hokage) and Uchiha Madara posses the ability to move at speed nearing the speed or light, or the speed of light itself, utilizing the space-time ninjutsu.
Is onic faster than the speed of light?
We know of nothing that cam move faster than light.
How fast do electric currents move?
Yes, typically about 2/3 of the speed of light in a vacuum - that is, about 200,000 km/sec. Note that the drift speed of the electrons is only a fraction of a millimeter per second, and the random speed of electrons is faster, but still much slower than the speed of the CURRENT.Yes, typically about 2/3 of the speed of light in a vacuum - that is, about 200,000 km/sec. Note that the drift speed of the electrons is only a fraction of a millimeter per second, and the random speed of electrons is faster, but still much slower than the speed of the CURRENT.Yes, typically about 2/3 of the speed of light in a vacuum - that is, about 200,000 km/sec. Note that the drift speed of the electrons is only a fraction of a millimeter per second, and the random speed of electrons is faster, but still much slower than the speed of the CURRENT.Yes, typically about 2/3 of the speed of light in a vacuum - that is, about 200,000 km/sec. Note that the drift speed of the electrons is only a fraction of a millimeter per second, and the random speed of electrons is faster, but still much slower than the speed of the CURRENT.
What of the following statements about the speed of light is true?
nothing can move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum APEXXX
Is electricty faster than light?
Electricity can move at the speed of light but no faster. In general it won't due to electrical resistance.
What is the name of the first plane faster than the speed of light?
Nothing has ever been manufactured that could move anywhwere near the speed of light, and according to the best current science, nothing in nature can ever move faster than the speed of light.
