Both light and sound travel. Light travels the fastest.
Mechanical waves such as sound and water waves.Electromagnetic waves, such as light, radio, microwaves, x-rays.
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
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.
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.
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.
Light appears lighter, and also travels faster, than sound.
No, not quite. The sound travels at the speed of sound to your ear.
Light travels faster.
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.
sound and light are energyperformed from ave but light travels in a straight direction
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.
no from what i have learned light travels faster then sound
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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.
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.
Such a speed is technically called the speed of light, but it could also be defined as ~Mach 1000000.
Light travels at approximately 3x108m/s whilst sound travels only at 343m/s. So which do you think is the faster one?