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No, not quite. The sound travels at the speed of sound to your ear.
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What makes light travel so fast?
Unlike sound it travels through atoms and molecules. Also, the intake from the eye can interpret the light much faster than the ear can interpret sound making it seem as if sound is much slower than light when in fact it is almost the same speed.
Do speed of sound increases with increasing temperature in the ear?
Sound does travel slightly faster as air temperature increases and this applies when the sound enters the ear just as it does in any other air. Once the sound has passed the ear drum, air is no longer the medium in which the sound travels so air temperature no longer affects the speed of sound.
Why when you turn on a light why doesn't it make a big bang like when you go faster than sound?
Sound travels through air when something pushes or vibrates it. A sonic boom occurs when something pushes through the air faster than the speed of sound and the sound waves get bunched up and arrive at your ear all at one time. Light also travels faster than sound. In fact, light traveling through a vacuum is the fastest anything can travel through the universe. However, when light travels through the air, it doesn't push it or form mechanical waves in the air. Since light doesn't move the air as it travels, it doesn't make any sound at all.
How the ringing sound of a telephone travels from the phone to your ear?
The vibrations from the phone ringing travels through the air snot into the outer part of your ear
Describe how the ringing sound of a telephone travels from the phone to your ear.?
The vibrations from the phone ringing travels through the air snot into the outer part of your ear
How does sound travel through the air?
it travels because there are sound waves in the air and they vibrate in your ear.
Does thunder come before lightning?
Yes; light travels faster than sound. Sound is vibrational mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a wave and light, or visible light, is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is visible to the human eye. Sound must travel through matter to be perceived by the human ear. Light does NOT.
How does sound travel to your ear?
sound is actually vibrations. your eardrum is highly sensitive, like ripples on water, it picks up these vibrations
Sound is to what?
to ear as light is to eye
How sound travels through air and objects to the ear?
Sound travels through particles which vibrate in solids liquids or gases, which is why sound can't travel through vacuums like space.
Can sound energy pass through gas?
Yes, sound energy can propagate through gas ( that's the reason we can hear as sound energy travels through the ear to the human ear.)
Why don't have directional hearing underwater?
Humans do not have directional hearing underwater because the brain determines the location of a source of sound by using the difference in time it takes the sound to reach the two ears. In air sound travels about 330 m/s where as the speed of sound in water is about 1483 m/s, which means the difference in time to reach each ear is much smaller and the brain is unable to determine which ear the sound got to first. (this is the basic answer but the difference in speed also changes how sound reflects off the curvature of the outer ear which further distorts our perception of location)
