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Generally speaking, wind speed approaching 80mph may cause windows to break.
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How does speed of water in a river affect its ability to cause erosion?
The faster the speed of water in a river the more erosion is causes. The slower the water the less amount of erosion it causes.
How do they determine wind speed in a tornado?
In most cases the wind speed of a tornado is estimated based on the severity of the damage it causes.
Can lightning strike through windows?
A lightning bolt would explode the glass window before it would travel through the glass. Storm lightning is so fast that even if it were to go thru a window the window would shatter from the heat and speed. Glass is not a conductor so, being struck by lightning thru the window would take the Glass to shatter which would take two strikes. Other following ways are the only ways lighting can strike into a home. -Lightning can enter the home thru any of the 3 following ways. (1) a direct strike (2) through wires or pipes that extend outside the structure (3) through the ground. Regardless of the method of entrance, once in a structure, the lightning can travel through the electrical, phone, plumbing, and radio/television reception systems. Lightning can also travel through any metal wires or bars in concrete walls or flooring. Avoid contact with concrete walls which may contain metal reinforcing bars. Avoid washers and dryers since they not only have contacts with the plumbing and electrical systems, but also contain an electrical path to the outside through the dryer vent.
How does the speed of water in a river affect its ability to cause erosion?
The faster the speed of water in a river the more erosion is causes. The slower the water the less amount of erosion it causes.
How does wind speed affect cooling of sweat?
a higher wind speed causes the saturated air around the sweating object to be dislocated and thus the sweating process, evaporation of water molecules, will be more efficient.
Can a wiffle ball break a window?
Unless that ball was thrown or hit at a ridiculously high speed, then there's really no way plastic breaks glass.
Why does a bullet when fired against a glass window pane make a hole in it and the glass pane will gets broken?
At the point of impact, the glass immediately infront of the projectile is powerded. This causes localized stress in the rest of the sheet, as can be seen by the spider web around the hole. The rest of the cracks radiating from the site are where the residual energy from the impact are distributed.
If i throw a button at a car window will it break?
Will the button break? Or will the window break?It depends at the speed of the car and the material of the button. A small metal object hitting a car windscreen at high speed can break the window.A plastic button hitting the window of a stationary car will probably not do much harm, but a plactic button hitting the car window of a moving vehicle may do a lot of harm, not necessarily by breaking the window but by distracting the driver, which in turn may cause a fatal accident.Suggestion: Don't do it!
Why would a male blue grouse fly through a double pane glass window at a very high speed?
Because it's fleeing from a predator, and don't realize that the glass is there..
How fast does a rock have to go to break a window?
There is no single, simple answer to that. The required speed would also depend on the rock's mass, its shape, and both the thickness and size of the window.
When light travels through the air window and then air it slows down?
The speed of the light while it's in air ... on both sides of the window ...is greater than it is while it's in the glass.
How does a window reflect light?
A window reflects light because light, which is a wave, travels slower in glass than in air. It travels at about 2/3 the speed in glass as it does in air. Also light travels at about 3/4 the speed in water as it does in air and so that is the reason light reflects off the surface of water. The greater the difference in speed between the two mediums, the more light is reflected at the surface boundary. An amazing experiment is to submerge glass in a transparent liquid that has the same "index of refraction". The 'index of refraction" of a substance is simply the measure of the speed with which light travels in the substance. If you submerge the glass, and the speed of light is the same in the liquid as in the glass, the glass seems to disappear. The reason is seems to disappear is because light is no longer reflected off the surface of the glass, and if you think about it, that is the only reason that you can see a glass in the first place.
Why does a small bullet can make a clear hole in a glass window but a big stone can only crack it?
I would say this has to do with velocity of the bullet.(speed)
How do you calculate the minimum speed a tennis ball has to go to break tempered glass?
I don't think this can be calculated exactly. Whether the glass will break will depend not only on the speed of the tennis ball, but also on its mass and size, its hardness, the thickness and quality of the glass, and perhaps even luck.
How does flying supersonic aircraft shatter glass of the window panes?
Moving faster than the speed of sound creates a shockwave. This shockwave is a wave of very high air pressure. When it hits glass it pushes on it and if the pressure of the shockwave is higher than the strength of the glass, the glass breaks.
Slow glass that reduces the speed of light?
Most forms of glass do not change the speed of light. Darker glass lets less light through it Glass at an angle to light may refract ( bend) light or glass may break light up into all the colours the light is made of rainbow / spectrum. The only way anyone has successfully stopped and restarted light is using magnetic beams
Where will be speed of light minimum-water or air or vacuum or glass?
The speed of light is minimum in Glass. It is because light travels at minimum speed in solids.
