Question

1. Compare the speed that light waves travel in air to the speed that sound waves travel in the air. How many times faster do light waves travel in air in comparison to sound waves in air?

Water-1500 meters per second
steel-5000 meters per second
Air-335 meters per second

Answer 1

895522 times faster.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question given above, the following data were obtained:

Speed of sound in air (v) = 335 m/s

Speed of light in air (c) = 3×10⁸ m/s

How many times faster =.?

To obtain how many times faster light travels in air than sound, do the following

c : v => 3×10⁸ : 335

c/v = 3×10⁸ / 335

c/v = 895522

Cross multiply

c = 895522 × v

From the illustrations made above, we can see that the speed of the light in air (c) is 895522 times the speed of sound in air.

Thus, light travels 895522 times faster than sound in air.