2007-03-29 20:27:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Different types of nerves travel at different speeds. The fastest ones, those that tell your body where your limbs are in space travel as fast as 100 meters per second. The slowest ones, those that send pain signals, go around a quarter of a meter per second. Others go somewhere in between.
2007-03-30 16:01:51 · answer #1 · answered by Tadgie1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nerve impulse travels at the speed of electromagnetic radiation ie speed of light.
2007-03-29 23:21:01 · answer #2 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There's an alphabetic categorization of different types of nerve fibers each of which has its own peculiar transmission properties.
2007-03-30 05:16:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
light speed
2007-03-29 20:34:15 · answer #4 · answered by The_good_guy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
its almost 1 nano second per pulse
2007-03-29 20:40:53 · answer #5 · answered by Meha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋