The approximate distance is 1 kilometer or about 3/5ths of a mile away.
Thunder is what you hear, lightning is what you see, but both are due to electrical discharge in the atmosphere. They can seem to be separated in time to an observer (you see the lightening before you hear the thunder) because of the large difference in the speed of sound and the speed of light. If you are significant distance away (a few miles or kilometers), the light from the discharge will reach you almost instantly, but the sound can take several seconds to arrive. In fact you can measure the distance from you to the lightening in this way: for each second delay between seeing it and hearing it, the lightening bolt is approximately 300 meters, or 1000 ft away. Thunder is merely the rumbling sound that lightning creates. You hear the thunder after you see the lighting because light travels faster than sound. Lightning is the light that is emitted, and thunder is the sound.
the sheet lightning is more mild then the ball lightning
-- Count seconds between the flash of lightning and the thunder -- Divide by 5. -- The result is the number of miles between you and the lightning
There is a delay between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder because the speed of light (lightning) is much faster than the speed of sound (thunder). Thus, you SEE lightning first, and then you HEAR thunder later.
The interval between the wars was often brief, usually simply a period of rearmament. The interval between a lightning flash and the sound of thunder can provide an estimate of a storm's distance from the observer.
The path difference is the difference in the physical distance between the two sources to the observer, i.e., the difference in distance travelled from the source to the observer.
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Count the time in seconds between a lightning flash and the thunder clap. Five seconds delay equals 1 mile in distance.
As speed of light >> speed of sound, we can safely assume that the time taken for light to reach the observer is negligeable. Taking speed of sound to be 340 ms-1 The distance can be found out by the formula Distance = Speed * Time = 340 * 3.4 = 1156 m
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Figuring out what mass a star has is tricky. We have to calculate things like temperature, mass, and distance, and each calculation depends on the others. When two bodies orbit each other, we can calculate their masses based on the orbital time and the distance between them. When the binaries are eclipsing each other, that helps a LOT to figure out the distance between them and their masses.
It is 51 - (-11) = 62.
From Queensland's Gold Coast to the opal town of Lightning Ridge in northwestern New South Wales is a distance of 749 kilometres. The journey would take over 9.5 hours.
The parallax method can be used to calculate the distance between planets and other celestial bodies. The formula for this is d(pc) = 1/p where p is parallax measured in arcseconds.
The distance covered between two points in time is the area under the graph between the two points.