No, light year per hour is not a standard measure of speed. A light year is a measure of distance, not time. It represents the distance that light travels in one year.
refractive index is the measure of how how fast or slow light travel through a material reference to the speed of light in empty space.
One common method to measure the speed of light is using a device called a laser interferometer. This device splits a laser beam into two paths, then recombines them to detect any phase difference caused by the speed of light. Another method involves using a high-speed camera to capture the time it takes for a laser pulse to travel a known distance.
The property of a material that indicates how much the speed of light changes as it passes through is called the material's refractive index. This index is a measure of how much the speed of light is reduced in a material compared to its speed in a vacuum. The higher the refractive index, the more the speed of light is reduced in that material.
The speed of sound in air is about 343 m/s, and the speed of light in a vacuum is about 299,792 km/s. When added together, the speed of sound and the speed of light do not directly add up because sound requires a medium to travel through, while light can travel in a vacuum.
Roemer was the first to measure the speed of light.
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Roughly speaking, light moves about a million times faster than sound in air.
Light is faster because speed does not move. Speed is a measure of the rate of movement but, in itself, it does not move - at all!
The speed of light isn't a distance so it has no length it is a measure of speed, which is roughly 186000 miles per second.
Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second
It doesn't work that way. The light-year is not used to measure the speed of light. It works the other way round: First, the speed of light is determined through other methods, then the distance called a light-year is calculated based on that measurements.
The first successful attempt to measure the speed of light was in 1676 by Danish astronomer Ole RΓΈmer. He estimated the speed of light by observing the eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io.
Galileo attempted to measure the speed of light using lanterns positioned at known distances and observing the time it took for light to travel between them. He would uncover the lanterns simultaneously and use a telescope to try and detect any delay in the light reaching his eyes. However, his methods were not sensitive enough to accurately measure the speed of light.
The speed of light is always the same, as long as the light stays in vacuum or in the material substance it's in. The speed of the source generating the light, or the speed of the person who's measuring the light, has no effect on the light's speed. It will always measure the same number. That means: -- If a rocket is in space, flying toward you at half the speed of light, and the astronaut aboard shines a flashlight at you, and -- If you strap a jet-pack on your back and fly toward the rocket at half the speed of light, and -- If you measure the speed of the light from his flashlight as it shines past you, -- You'll measure the same speed of light as if you and the astronaut were both standing still. It can't be . . . But it is. It's been confirmed in thousands of experiments during the past 100 years.
No, light year per hour is not a standard measure of speed. A light year is a measure of distance, not time. It represents the distance that light travels in one year.