which travels faster,  sound or light
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Q & A: Speed of Sound and Light What are speeds of sound and of light . We are doing research on lightning and thunder . The speed of sound through air is about 340 meters per second. (The speed of sound in water is about 4 times faster than this). The speed of light in air is about 300 million meters per second.
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Was Einstein wrong all along? Controversial theory suggests the speed of light is SLOWER than we think Albert Einstein argued that, in theory, nothing can travel faster than light. Speed of light in a vacuum is thought to travel at 186,282 miles per second. But James Franson from Maryland University believes it is slower than this. In 1987, light particles of a supernova arrived 4.7 hours later than expected.
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speed of sound In most liquids and solids, the speed of sound is greater than in air at sea level. In part, this is because traveling waves in air occur because of compression, but traveling waves in solids and liquids occur because of lateral motion of the molecules, a phenomenon that generally propagates faster.
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Light travels faster than sound. How are we able to HEAR exactly at the same point when a person starts to talk? The frame-rate for our eyes is somewhere between 1/10th and 1/30th of a second, depending on the stimuli. So any sound that reaches us in that time frame is functionally simultaneous to our senses. The speed of sound is about 340 m/s. So in 1/30th of a second it travels 11 meters. It you are within this distance, it is impossible for you to detect any difference in the arrival of the two stimuli. And in average conditions, this would be more like 23 meters.
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4 cosmic phenomena that travel faster than the speed of light Once it reaches the speed of sound, the waves bunch up creating a shock front that forms a loud sonic boom. Similarly, when electrons travel through water at speeds faster than light speed in water, they generate a shock wave of light that sometimes shines as blue light, but can also shine in ultraviolet.
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Why do radio waves travel at the speed of light and not sound? Why do radio waves travel at the speed of light and not sound? Radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation – the same phenomenon as light, X-rays and various other types of radiation, but with much longer wavelengths.
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- Sound waves need to travel through a medium such as a solid, liquid, or gas. The sound waves move through each of these mediums by vibrating the molecules in the matter. The molecules in solids are packed very tightly. Liquids are not packed as tightly as solids. And gases are very loosely packed. The spacing of the molecules enables sound to travel much faster through a solid than a gas. Sound travels about four times faster and farther in water than it does in air. This is why whales can communicate over huge distances in the oceans.
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Faster-than-light Faster-than-light communication and travel refer to the propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light. The special theory of relativity implies that only particles with zero rest mass may travel at the speed of light. Tachyons, particles whose speed exceeds that of light, have been hypothesized but the existence of such particles would violate causality and the consensus of physicists is that such particles cannot exist. On the other hand, what some physicists refer to as
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- Sound waves travel in. air at a speed of approximately 344 meters/second, while. electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light. (300,000,000 meters/second). While mechanical waves need. something to move in e.g., air or water, electromagnetic waves. can travel in a vacuum. Another important characteristic of.
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- Sound waves travel fastest through a solid material. The second fastest medium is a liquid, and the slowest medium is a gas, because sound waves travel by vibrating molecules in a medium. In solids,... Sound waves travel fastest through a solid material.
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- Sound wave travels faster in the air when it is with the wind. Generally speaking, wind speed is lower near the ground because of the presence of blockages, and so it increases with height (Fig. 1). Therefore, when traveling with the wind, sound wave farther from the ground travels faster.
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- SOUND CAN GO FASTER THAN LIGHT – NOT KIDDING. SOUND TRAVELING FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT - EVEN FASTER THAN TIME I.E. SOUND MESSAGES ARRIVING BEFORE THEY ARE SENT!!! THIS IS A CLEAR EXAMPLE OF ENERGY CONVERTING FROM 3-D TO 2-D AND THE. SEEMINGLY STRANGE PHENOMENA THAT OCCUR.
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What Causes Sleepiness? How Fatigue Differs from Sleepiness. It's important to differentiate sleepiness or drowsiness from fatigue or tiredness. Fatigue may represent a separate set of medical conditions, including anemia, hypothyroidism, and depression. In the realm of sleep problems, fatigue is a common complaint of insomnia.
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Q & A: Sound Waves vs. Light Waves Light is a wave of oscillating electric and magnetic fields perpendicular to the direction it’s going. Light can travel fine through a vacuum, which can have fields in it, but there can’t be sound in a vacuum. because there’s no stuff there to oscillate.
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In which medium does sound travel fastest? The speed of sound depends on the medium through which it is traveling. Sound travels fastest through solids, then liquids, and slowest through gases. As the molecules in a so … lid medium are closely packed together, sound waves can travel more quickly through it. Sound waves travel over 17 times faster through steel than through air.
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Refracting Telescopes Light travels through a vacuum at its maximum speed of about 3.0 × 108 m/s, and in a straight path. Light travels at slower speeds through different materials, such as glass or air. When traveling from one medium to another, some light will be reflected at the surface of the new medium.
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Theory of relativity For the first time, scientists have experimentally demonstrated that. sound pulses can travel at velocities faster than the speed of light, c. William Robertson's team from Middle Tennessee State University also. showed that the group velocity of sound waves can become infinite, and. even negative.
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What travels faster, light or sound? Light travels faster than sound. In vacuum, the speed of light is about 3.0 x 10^8 m/s while that of sound is 0 m/s (sound needs a medium to travel, hence it cannot travel through a vacuum). In air, the speed of sound is approximately 340 m/s while that of light is the same as in the previous condition.
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- But whether in air or in water, sound moves much more slowly than light does. While light travels at 186,000 miles per second, sound only goes 0.2 miles per second (343 meters per second, or about 770 miles per hour). A fast airplane can go faster than the speed of sound.
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- Sound may travel faster in warm air but it travels farther in cold air.... this blog takes a short look at just how it all works
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Physics for Kids The matter that transports the sound is called the medium. The speed of sound is how fast the wave or vibrations pass through the medium or matter. The type of matter has a large impact on the speed at which the sound will travel. For example, sound travels faster in water than air. Sound travels even faster in steel. In dry air, sound travels at 343 meters per second (768 mph). At this rate sound will travel one mile in around five seconds. Sound travels 4 times faster in water (1,482 meters per second) and around 13 times faster through steel (4,512 meters per second).
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What medium does sound travel fastest in, and why? A sound wave is a series of pressure waves that propagate through a medium, causing the medium's matter to push closer together for a moment, then as it re-expands, pushes against the adjacent matter, propagating the sound through the medium. The denser the medium, the faster the pressure wave can travel. A denser medium is stiffer to this sort of motion, and can therefore permit the wave to progress quicker, meaning that sound travels faster.
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Physics for Kids The speed of sound is how fast the wave or vibrations pass through the medium or matter. The type of matter has a large impact on the speed at which the sound will travel. For example, sound travels faster in water than air. Sound travels even faster in steel. In dry air, sound travels at 343 meters per second (768 mph).
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Sound Pulses Exceed Speed of Light The standard metric for the speed of light is that of light traveling in vacuum. This constant, known as c, is roughly 186,000 miles per second, or roughly one million times the speed of sound in air. According to Einstein's work, matter and signals cannot travel faster than c.
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How much faster does light travel than sound? Speed of light in vacuum is 299792458 m/s or 983571056.43045 ft/s. Speed of sound in air of 20°C or 68°Fahrenheit is 343 m/s or 1125.32808 ft/s. You see that light is 87403 … 0 times faster than sound.