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The speed of light depends on the refractive index (optical density) of the medium through which it travels. It is not affected by temperature.
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If you were standing still at latitude 60 degrees north you would be traveling at a speed of what?
0 km an hour!
Does the speed of light changes when it goes from rarer medium to denser medium having angle of incidence equal to 0?
The speed of light changes when it goes from one medium to another one with a different index of refraction. The angle of incidence doesn't influence the change in speed.
How long would it take for a Ferrari accelerating 0-60 in 4.2 seconds to reach the speed of light?
It is technically impossible to accelerate to the speed of light. That would require an infinite amount of energy. However, based on a simple, linear equation: Going from 0-60 mph in 4.2 seconds is an average acceleration of about 6.38 m/s2. The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. This gives us a result of about 46,943,164 seconds, or 1yr 178da1hr46min. (rounded)
What is the speed of light through a solid?
The speed of light through a solid will depend on its refractive index. Water ice has a refractive index (RI) of 1.31 and so light will travel at a speed of 228,850,000 metres per second. Germanium has a RI approx 4 and so the speed of light is 74,950,000 metres per second. Then there are opaque solids and the speed of light through these is 0.
What mach is the speed of light?
The question has no sensible answer: the Mach number is the speed of an object in a medium compared to the speed of sound in the same medium. Light, and other electromagnetic radiation travel fastest in vacuum. Since sound cannot travel in vacuum its speed in vacuum is 0 and so the Mach number for light requires division by zero - which is undefined.The Mach number for light travelling in air is approx 873,300. In water, it is 202,000 and in diamond it is only 10,400.
What is the speed of light when traveling through air at 0 degrees Celsius?
331
What is the speed of light at 0 centigrade?
The speed of light depends mainly on what light is traveling through. The speed of light in a vacuum is 300,000 kilometers per second. The speed of light in other substances can be a little slower, and sometimes a lot slower.
What is the accleration of a car traveling for 2.5 at a constant speed of 95?
0. "Constant speed" means it is not accelerating.
What is the average speed a space shuttle travels?
Since the Shuttle at liftoff is traveling at 0 mph, and at orbit is traveling at 17,180 mph, a simple average would be [ (17,180+0) / 2 ] = 8,590 mph.
If you were standing still at latitude 60 degrees north you would be traveling at a speed of what?
0 km an hour!
Which is the minimum speed of light passes through?
Zero (0) light cannot pass through opaque materials.
Compare the speed of light with the speed of sound at 0 degrees celsius?
The speed of light has nothing to do with the temperature of the vacuum. It is c = 299 792 458 meters per second. The speed of sound has much to do with the temperature of the air. At 0 degrees Celsius the speed of sound in dry air is c = 331.29 meters per second.
When someone go with an infinity speed the time will stop as a picture so when you look a picture very well that mean you go with an infinity speed around the picture or the reverse?
Its not infinity speed, when you got with the same speed as light moving away from the object your watching, than time will appear to be stop-ed (it isn't, it only looks like it). When you go faster than light time Will appear to go backward (2x the speed of light = same speed backward). You can see light speed as 1 (normal) if you travel the same speed as light it is 1 -1(your speed) and is 0. If you would travel 5x the speed of light it would be 1 -5(your speed) and will result in -4 so things would appear to go backward with 4x the speed. A picture is just a moment captured on a piece of paper (just how it was like when it was taken). it doesn't move, its not traveling with infinity speed. light bounces off that object into your eye's and that's why you see it how it is.
The time that a traffic light remains yellow is 1 second more than 0-5 times the speed limit what is the yellow time for a traffic light an a street with a speed limit of 30mins per hr?
Between 0 and 150m 5s.
Why Lorentz Tranformation does not allow any object to reach the speed of light?
from a purely mathematical stand point, if something were to reach the speed of light the time dialation/length contraction formula would yield something over 0. This is beacuse the formula is: constant/[(1-(velocity/speed of light)^2] as you can see, if velocity=speed of light, you get something over zero.
My 97 Chevy Tahoe speedometer will fall to 0 mph and the ABS light will come on while driving and you suddenly loose power for a brief second or two then i will pick back up to the current speed?
you might have a bad vehical speed censor or a loose wire
What is the formula for Doppler effect?
The apparent frequency = actual frequency* [(c + Vm - Vo) / (c + Vm - Vs)] Vm = 0 in case of light and Vm is the wind speed in case of sound. Vo - the speed of the observer and V s - the speed of the source of disturbance (light or sound). C the speed of sound or light.
