which is faster, the speed of sound or the speed of light?
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How does the speed of light compare to the speed of sound? The speed of light is roughly 882 thousand times the speed of sound. -- Sound takes about 4.7 seconds to cover 1 mile. -- Light takes about 0.0000054 second to cover 1 mile. -- In the time it takes sound to travel one mile, light travels 881,741 miles. During a thunderstorm, you see the lightning before you hear the thunder, even though they're caused by the same event. Another clue to an easy answer: Nothing is faster than the speed of light.
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Which is faster light or sound? Best Answer: Depends on the medium it travels in. In general Light travels faster, like in air. In other materials such as hard/brittle solids, sound travels much faster, sometimes faster than light itself traveling through the same substance. What most people here fail to realize is that Light travels at different speeds through different mediums as does sound. Don't blame them for their ignorance.
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- Although the precise numbers of deaths is impossible to determine and different sources believe in the accuracy of different numbers, these numbers are one set of figures for the number of deaths that occurred in World War Two. Figures for military and civilian deaths are provided where these were available.
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- Light travels at about 300,000 kilometers per second, and the speed of sound is usually around 300 meters per second.
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Speed of sound The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium. In dry air at 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of sound is 343.2 metres per second (1,126 ft/s; 1,236 km/h; 768 mph; 667 kn), or a kilometre in 2.914 s or a mile in 4.689 s. The speed of sound in an ideal gas depends only on its temperature and composition. The speed has a weak dependence on frequency and pressure in ordinary air, deviating slightly from ideal behavior.
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Free Fall It is slow. In air, the speed of sound is 343 mete … rs per second (1,126 ft/s), or 1,236 kilometers per hour (768 mph). It takes 3 seconds to travel one kilometer or 5 seconds to travel one mile. It is 4 times faster than that in water and almost 15 times faster in iron.
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What is the Speed of Sound? These 10 facts about space will blow your mind. The speed of sound varies depending on altitude, temperature and the medium through which it travels. For example, at sea level in a standard atmosphere, at a temperature of 59-degrees Fahrenheit (15 Celsius), sound travels 761 miles per hour (1,225 km/p/h).
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Sound Pulses Exceed Speed of Light The results conform to Einstein's theory of relativity, so don't expect this research to lead to sound-propelled spaceships that fly faster than light. Still, the work could help spur research that boosts the speed of electrical and other signals higher than before.
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- A virus was originally the venom of a snake, and was an English borrowing of a Latin word meaning ‘slimy liquid’ or ‘poison’, that is also the source of virulent (Late Middle English).
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- As David Kahana mentioned, the speed of sound is related to the density of the medium where the sound propagates. The speed of sound means the speed at which the particles in a medium propagate mechanical waves through interaction with each other.
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Why/how does light travel faster than sound? This is due to the fact light travels at 300,000,000m/s in all mediums(space,air water,etc), but sound travels at 340m/s in air but it's speed is different in others, for example it is actually quicker in water due to the particles being closer together.
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What Is the Speed of Sound in Fps? The speed of sound is dependent on the medium through which it is traveling. Under typical conditions, at sea level, sound travels 1,225 kilometers per hour, or 340.29 meters per second.
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- Confidence votes 417. In vacuum, the speed of light is a constant c = 300 000 000 m/s. In a transparent medium, light slows down by a factor of 1/n where n is called the refractive index of the medium.30,000 to 1. Sound travels roughly 1/5 of a mile per second in air. Light travels 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum. In five seconds sound … travels one mile. In five seconds, light travels 930,000 miles in a vacuum.
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Speed of sound The wavelength of any sound wave will be proportional to its speed and inversely proportional to its frequency. l = c / f, where l is the wavelength, c is the speed, and f … is the frequency. In air, at sea level, 20 C and dry conditions, the speed of sound is about 340 m/s. A high frequency might be 15000 Hz, so the wavelength of that wave would be about 2.27 cm.
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Can humans hear in space? The speed of a sound wave depends upon the medium through which it travels. In general, sound travels faster through solids than through liquids or gases. Also, the denser the medium, the slower sound will travel through it. The same sound will travel at a different speed on a cold day than it would on a warm day.
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Base and superstructure Applications, revisions, and criticisms[edit] Marx's theory of base and superstructure can be found in the disciplines of political science, sociology, anthropology, and psychology as utilized by Marxist scholars. In these different disciplines, the relationship between the base and superstructure and the contents of each category may take different forms.
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USCG Navigation General Questions: Master's License How much faster does sound travels in water than in air? Speed of sound in water is approximately 1500 meters per second. ( The exact speed depends on the depth of water and its density) and the speed of sound in air is approximatel…y 340 meters per second. So sound is almost 4.4 times faster in water than in air.
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Q & A: Speed of Sound and Light A: Holly, 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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Speed of Light and Speed of Sound For example, if instead of air, it is Hydrogen gas, the speed of sound is nearly four times as fast, at 4,165 f/s (2840 mph)! In water, it is even faster, at 4,794 f/s (3,269 mph), in most types of wood, twice as fast as that, and in metals, even faster! In iron or steel, the speed of sound is around 15 times as fast as in air, 16,410 f/s (11,189 mph).
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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.
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What is the Speed of Sound? The speed of sound varies depending on altitude, temperature and the medium through which it travels. For example, at sea level in a standard atmosphere, at a temperature of 59-degrees Fahrenheit (15 Celsius), sound travels 761 miles per hour (1,225 km/p/h).
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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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Rocket engine The speed of sound in air at 20 degrees Celsius and sea-level pressure is 343 meters per second. The speed of light in vacuum is 299,792,458 meters per second: about 874 thousand times the speed of sound in air.
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What Travels Faster: Light or Sound? Quick Answer. Light travels at a considerably higher speed than sound. Light travels at a constant speed of 186,000 miles per second, but the speed of sound is only 761.2 mph.
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How fast Mach 20 is. The Mach system (Mach 1, Mach 2, Mach 3 etc.) is the universal measurement of the speed of sound. In case you weren't listening during physics class, the speed of sound is about 343 metres per second.
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- Light waves travel in vacuum with the speed of light c = 299792458 m/s or 983571056 ft/s. Sound waves travel at 20°C (68 … F) with the speed of sound c = 343 m/s or 1125.33 ft/s. So light travels 874,030 times faster than sound.