light is faster than the space shuttle but sound isn't. that's why you hear a sonic boom. Also you usually see lightning before you hear thunder.
Sound is a mechanical wave that requires a medium (like air, water, or solids) to travel through, while visible light is an electromagnetic wave that can travel through a vacuum. Sound waves travel slower than light waves and are typically experienced as pressure variations, while light waves travel much faster and are perceived as color. Both sound and light waves are forms of energy that propagate in waves.
The range of wavelengths of visible light is approximately 380 to 750 nanometers (nm). In comparison, the wavelengths of audible sound typically range from about 1.7 centimeters (17,000 nm) for high frequencies to about 17 meters (17,000,000 nm) for low frequencies. Thus, visible light wavelengths are significantly shorter than those of audible sound, with light being several orders of magnitude smaller.
-- The highest frequency of sound audible to the human ear is of the order of 20,000 Hz.-- The lowest frequency of light visible to the human eye is of the order of 375,000,000,000,000 Hz.
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no, sound and light are very different Sound is a vibration in air, light is a particle called a photon moving through the air
I wasn't aware that non-visible light made a sound...
Light speed is much faster than the speed of sound, ergo the light you see in lightning is visible, before you here the sound.
Thunder itself is not visible. Thunder is the sound produced by the rapid expansion of heated air surrounding a lightning bolt. Lightning, on the other hand, is visible and is the actual electrical discharge that produces the light we see during a storm.
The question makes little sense, but sound is a longitudinal wave, light is a transverse wave. Light avergaes around 500nm wavelength, sound audible to the human ear ranges from a few cm to 20m or so.
Sound isn't. The others are.
The lowest frequency of visible light ... assume wavelength = 750 nm ...is around 400,000 GHz.The highest frequency of audible sound is around 20 KHz.So the smallest ratio ... lowest frequency of light to highest frequency of sound ...is 4 x 1014/2 x 104 = 20 billion .
The two types of radiation that are not emitted by radioactive substances are electromagnetic radiation in the form of visible light and sound waves. Radioactive substances primarily emit alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays. Visible light is not a product of radioactive decay, and sound waves do not arise from nuclear processes. Thus, both visible light and sound waves are not associated with radioactivity.