MasroorAhmad MasroorAhmad

09-02-2015
Physics

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When you see fireworks, why do you see the blast before you hear the sound?

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09-02-2015

Because light travels about 874 thousand times as fast as sound does.
So the light of the blast always reaches you before the sound of it does.

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