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lightning travels faster. Light is faster than sound.
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Which travels faster lightning or thunder?
lightneing
Why can you hear the sound of the thunder faster if you place your ear against the ground?
Because the ground is denser than air. The noise of the thunder, form where the lightning bolt strikes the earth, travels faster in the ground than it does through the air.
Why do you see lightning before you hear it?
light travels much faster than sound
Why is it that lightning travels faster than 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.
Why is thunder heard after the lightning is seen?
Because light travels much faster than sound.
Does lightning travel faster through dry air or moisture air?
It travels at the same speed.
Why do we hear thunder a few seconds after seeing lightning?
Light travels faster than sound.
Why do thunder and lightning arrive at different times?
You will see the lightning before you hear the thunder because light travels faster than sound (:
What is faster the speed of lightning or the speed of sound?
Lightning travels approximately at 60,000 miles a second (96,560 kps), while sound travels at a pokey one-fifth of a mile per second (20 kps). I think you might have actually been referring to light, not lightning, which travels at 186,411 miles per second (300,000 kps). In other words, light travels almost a million times faster than sound.
Why do you see the lightning first if you are far away?
Because light travels much faster than sound.
Why do you seen lightning before thunder is hears?
because light travels faster than sound i learned that when i was 10
Why do we hear thunder some seconds after seeing the lightning?
In simple terms... light travels much faster than sound. We see the lightning flash first, followed by the sound when it finally reaches us
