Light travels almost a million times faster in air. There is very little difference between the speed of light in a vacuum as in air. It is around 0.01% slower in air. Because of the difference between the speed of light and sound you can estimate the distance of a lightning strike. For every 3 seconds between the flash and the sound of thunder the lightning strike is 1 km away or 5 seconds for a mile. The actual speeds are light 300,000 km per second speed of sound 0.33 km per second.
The speed of light, 186,282 miles per second, goes way, way faster than the speed of sound, 768 miles per hour.
Light is about 800,000 faster (compared to the speed of sound in air).
Sound waves travel faster through denser mediums, and water is denser than air, so sound travels faster through water than air
I would think in warmer Air....
No. In general, the denser the medium, the faster sound travels.
Speed of sound in water is approximately 1500 meters per second. ( The exact speed depends on the depth of water and its density) and the speed of sound in air is approximately 340 meters per second. So sound is almost 4.4 times faster in water than in air.
In air, light waves travel about 871 thousand times faster than sound waves.
Sound requires the physical motion of material. Light doesn't.
Sound travels faster through a solid than through a vacuum. In a solid, sound waves propagate through the material's molecules, leading to faster transmission. In a vacuum, there are no molecules to transmit sound, so it cannot travel at all.
Sound travels faster in moist air
No. Light in vacuum is roughly 880 thousand timesas fast as sound in air.
Sound travels faster in water thanin air.
The sound travel faster in warm air because the average mean speed of the molecules of air is faster in warm air than on cool air. Sound is transferred by collisions of molecules. Therefore sound waves will travel faster on warm air because collisions of molecules of air in warm air is greater.
Light is faster in air than sound.
sound travel faster in cold air half i give you further other person will give
sound travels faster through a solid because the particles are right next to each other and so it is faster to vibrate whereas air particles are further apart and take longer to travel. So yes it would travel through the ground faster than air.
Much faster in a solid
faster