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What travels in waves?
Mechanical waves such as sound and water waves.Electromagnetic waves, such as light, radio, microwaves, x-rays.
Why was light from the rocket seen before the sound of rocket was heard?
Because light travels significantly faster than sound. Speed of light (in vacuum) = 299 792 458 m/s Speed of Sound (at sea-level ) = 340.29 m/s
Can light travel faster than sound?
Under normal circumstances, no. The speed of light in a vacuum is roughly 300,000,000 meters/second, while the speed of sound through air is 340 meters/second. However light does not travel 3x109 m/s inside a medium, and recent experiments have shown there are ways to slow light down to a crawl. In such a medium, usually a crystal structure, sound could indeed travel faster than light.
Does light travel faster than sound?
No. Sound is a conductive vibration that travels more slowly than light in any real-world environment. Sound travels at about 1,100 feet per second in air, and light travels at 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum and nearly as fast in air (although not as fast in glass, diamond, or other transparent solids). The large difference in speed is why you see a flash of lightning before you hear the thunder it creates. Sound is created by a wave that essentially pushes particles into the next particle. The speed of this wave is determined by the material it is traveling through. Something with high density and rigidity, such as steel, conducts a sound wave considerably faster than air (20,000 feet per second). If you were to have an object of infinitely high density and rigidity, sound could travel as faster as light. However, because it still boils down to the maximum velocity of the particles in the wave, it would not be able to exceed the speed of light.
A person will see a flash of lightning before they hear the thunder that goes with it because?
Light travels faster than sound, so the light from the lightning reaches our eyes almost instantly, whereas the sound of thunder takes longer to reach our ears because it travels slower. This difference in speed results in the flash of lightning being seen before the accompanying thunder is heard.
What travels lighter light or sound?
Light appears lighter, and also travels faster, than sound.
The sound travels at the speed of light to your ear?
No, not quite. The sound travels at the speed of sound to your ear.
Which travels fastest sound water air light?
Light travels faster.
Which travels fastest sound air light or water?
Light travels the fastest among sound, air, light, and water. In dry air, sound travels around 343 meters per second, while light travels at approximately 299,792 kilometers per second, which is much faster. Water and air have slower speeds of sound compared to light.
What is light and sound?
sound and light are energyperformed from ave but light travels in a straight direction
What is an explanation of how energy travels in waves to produce light and sound?
Light travels in waves, and sound travels in waves. However, sound waves and light waves are very different, and it is important not to confuse the two. Light travels in electromagnetic waves, and sound does not. Sound waves are caused by vibration.
Can light travel as fast as sound?
no from what i have learned light travels faster then sound
What travels faster the sound?
light
Why sound travels faster then light in television?
It doesn't. Light travels at a speed of 300,000 km/second; sound travels roughly a million times slower. By the way, the light you see and the sound you hear in television doesn't travel as light or sound for most of the way - the information is encoded in a radio wave (which also travels at the speed of light). Only in the television set is the information transformed back into normal light, and sound.
How does light travel witch is faster light or sound?
Light is much faster then the speed of sound. Sound travels at a speed of about 768 Miles per hour, when light travels at a speed of 186,282 miles per SECOND.
If light travels about one million times faster than sound its travels at what?
Such a speed is technically called the speed of light, but it could also be defined as ~Mach 1000000.
What travels faster light or sound?
Light travels at approximately 3x108m/s whilst sound travels only at 343m/s. So which do you think is the faster one?
