PHYSIC

S
 9TH GRADE

4. Speed of light

GROUP 4: HUN Yongseu, SOM Sokunveary,

MENG Makeng, HOUR Vouchhim, MAI Ozano
DISCOVERY
 DISCOVERY
- Before the 17th century, it was not known whether light was transmitted instantaneously or
merely very quickly.
- In the 17th century, Ole Roemer first demonstrated that is travelled at a finite speed by studying
the apparent motion of Jupiter’s moon lo.
- In 1975 the speed of light was known to be approximately 299,792,458 m/s approximately
300,000 kilometers per second; 186,000 miles per second; 671 million miles per hour).
According to the special theory of relativity
- In 1983, the meter was redefined as the distance travelled by light in vacuum in 1/299,792,458
of a second
WHAT IS THE
SPEED OF LIGHT?
The speed of light is a physical constant, the rate
at which light travels in a vacuum. Or in other
word, The speed of light is the speed of
electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum.
Information of the speed of light
-It is commonly known as 3 x m
-Usually denoted by c, for “constant”.
-Plays an important part in various branches in physics, such as relativity.
-No non-hypothetical object can surpass the speed of light.
-In water, speed of the light is reduced by 75%.
All forms of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, travel at the speed
of light. For many practical purposes, light and other electromagnetic waves will
appear to propagate instantaneously, but for long distances and very sensitive
measurements, their finite speed has noticeable effects. Any starlight viewed on
Earth is from the distant past, allowing humans to study the history of the
universe by viewing distant objects. When communicating with distant
space probes, it can take minutes to hours for signals to travel. In computing, the
speed of light fixes the ultimate minimum communication delay. The speed of
light can be used in time of flight measurements to measure large distances to
extremely high precision.
SPEED OF LIGHTS
Proof that light travels very much faster than sound is provided
by a thunder storms.
The flash of lightning is seen before
the thunder is heard. The length of
the time lapse is greater the further
the observer is from the strom.
The speed of light has a definite value; light does not travel
instantaneously from one point to another but takes a certain,
very small time. Its speed is about 1 million times greater than
that of sound. That is about 300,000 km/s.
The end!