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Radio telescopes beam radio waves into space. To calculate the speed of the radio waves in space, which information, if any, is necessary?

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Answer:

No more information is needed

Step-by-step explanation:

Radio waves are electromagnetic energy, lower frequency forms of this type of energy that includes light and cosmic rays on the high frequency end that we are able to detect. So in free space (vacuum), radio waves travel at their fastest velocity, the “speed of light”. The reason for the quotation marks is because when light or radio waves are propagating through matter, we observe them traveling more slowly.

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