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The speed of air at 20 degrees Celsius is 343 meters per second. The speed of light is 299 792 458 meters per second.
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Why speed of light is greater than speed of sound?
The speed of light is the speed at which electromagnetic waves propagate through a medium. The speed of sound is the speed at which acoustic waves propagate through a medium. As the speed of sound relies on the medium moreso than the speed of light, sound propagates much slower than light.
Is the speed of sound 186000 miles per second?
No, the speed of light is 186,282.4 miles per second. The speed of sound at sea level is about 0.2114 miles per second.
What is the ratio of speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of sound in air?
In a rough, round figure? 930,000 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.
How does the speed of a wave affect its wavelength?
This can be answered using light or sound. Light will remain at a constant speed regardless of frequency or amplitude. Its shift in frequency (Doppler shift) is caused by the extreme distances the light had to travel to get here. Still it remains at the same speed. Sounds speed will change with local conditions. Also subject to an audible Doppler shift when a constant note is moved past you you can hear the pitch shift. The motion compresses the sound as it approaches and spreads it out as it moves away from you.
What is mach regarding speed?
That means the speed, compared to the speed of sound. For example, "mach 2" means twice the speed of sound.
Is the speed of sound as speed of light?
The speed of light is much greater than the speed of sound.
Is the speed of light or sound faster?
The speed of light is about 880 thousand timesfaster than the speed of sound.
How is the speed of light and speed of sound related?
The speed of light is about 900,000 times as fast as the speed of sound in air.
Which was the fastest the speed of light or the speed of sound?
speed of light
What is farster the speed of light or the speed of sound?
The speed of light is more than 850 thousand times the speed of sound.
Why speed of light is greater than speed of sound?
The speed of light is the speed at which electromagnetic waves propagate through a medium. The speed of sound is the speed at which acoustic waves propagate through a medium. As the speed of sound relies on the medium moreso than the speed of light, sound propagates much slower than light.
When was The Sound the Speed the Light created?
The Sound the Speed the Light was created on 2009-10-06.
Which is faster the speed of sound in air or the speed of light in air?
Speed of light in air ~ speed of light in vavuum = 3,00 *10^8 m/s speed of sound in air ~ 330 m/s. Speed of light is faster than sound in air
What is faster in speed light or sound?
Light; The speed of light is 300,000 km/s yet the speed of sound is just 343 m / s
What is the speed of electricity or lightning compared to the speed of sound and light?
The speed of lightning is somewhere between that of light and sound which is why most scientists would agree that the speed of light and the speed of sound make a good comparison to that of lightning and electricity.
Which is fastest sound or light waves?
-- In vacuum, the speed of sound is zero, so you can't compare them there.-- In air at sea level, the speed of light is about 874 thousand times the speed of sound.
Is the The speed of sound is the same the as speed of light yes or no?
No. Light travels much faster than sound.
