The speed of light is much faster than the speed of sound. You see the lightening before you hear the thunder.
Lightning causes thunder so it cant help but be faster. light also travels far faster then sound about 298000 kilometresper second (185000 miles per second)so you always see lightning then you hear the thunder,the speed of sound is 235.3 kilometers per hour (767.58 mph)
The flash and the bang happen at the same time but sound travels much slower than light so you see the flash almost instantly but the sound takes time to get to you. The further you are from the lightning, the longer it takes for the sound to get to you.
Light travels faster than sound.
The two tangible indicators of the presence of lightning are 1) light, in the form of the flash, and 2) sound, in the form of thunder. Given that light travels much faster than sound, it follows that you will see the flash of lightning before you hear the report (hopefully. If the two are simultaneous, to you, you may well be fried). In fact, one can judge the distance between oneself and the lightning strike by counting the seconds between the flash and the sound. Five seconds of elapsed time means the strike was about 1 mile away.
The speed of light is much faster than the speed of sound. You see the lightening before you hear the thunder.
Because light travels faster than sound.
Thunder - is the result of a lightning flash. The flash causes the surrounding air to move away from the source at 300 metres/second. An approximate calculation for the relationship between the lightning flash to hearing the thunder, is 5 seconds per mile.
No. Lighting produces a flash. Thunder is the sound the lightning produces.
To estimate your distance from a thunderstorm count the number of seconds between a flash of lightning and the next clap of thunder. Divide your answer by 5. See the related link below.
Lightning heats up the air and the heated expanding air causes the thunder sound. You can estimate how far away the lightening was by counting seconds after the flash, 6 seconds to a mile away.thunder is the sound of lightning after the lightning strike occurs
A lightning flash travels at the speed of light. The sound of thunder travels much slower. Therefore, we see the flash before we hear the thunder.
Thunder - is the result of a lightning flash. The flash causes the surrounding air to move away from the source at 300 metres/second. An approximate calculation for the relationship between the lightning flash to hearing the thunder, is 5 seconds per mile.
then the lightning is 2.78 miles away from you.
-- 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
If you hear the thunder almost at the same time as the lightning flash - the storm is directly overhead. Usually - the sound of thunder arrives a few seconds after the lightning, because light travels much faster than sound.
the lightning is roughly a mile away
No. Lighting produces a flash. Thunder is the sound the lightning produces.
the lightning was 0.8 miles away.
If you hear the thunder almost at the same time as the lightning flash - the storm is directly overhead. Usually - the sound of thunder arrives a few seconds after the lightning, because light travels much faster than sound.
To estimate your distance from a thunderstorm count the number of seconds between a flash of lightning and the next clap of thunder. Divide your answer by 5. See the related link below.
it means the storm is about 1 mile away
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