do radio waves travel slower than visible light?

Question

or faster?

heres some more q's:
do xray's go through the earths atmosphere?
if the suns mass were to triple, how would ur weight on earth be affected?

Answer 1

1. light is light ; radio waves is light with longer wavelenght (beyond infra-red)that's all. So it's equally fast.

2. no they don't

3. To maintain orbit, earth would have to either spin faster or have a longer distance from the sun. But i Don't think our weight on earth would be affected

Answer 2

"...do radio waves travel slower than visible light?
or faster?..."
Both radio waves and visible light are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Both radio waves and visible light travel at the same velocity, the speed of light.

"...do xray's go through the earths atmosphere?..."
Yes. As a matter of fact xrays from some celestial objects are the only way we have of observing them.

"...if the suns mass were to triple, how would ur weight on earth be affected?..."
With the sun as it is now your weight is very, very slightly affected by its gravity and whether or not you're on the night side of Earth or the day side. At night you actually weigh the tiniest bit more than in the day time. Triple the sun's mass and that effect would be somewhat greater.

Answer 3

do low-pitched sound waves travel faster or slower than high-pitched sound waves?
Visible light and radio waves are the same stuff: it all travels at 186,000 miles per second.
Do x-rays go through the earth's atmosphere?
I don't think they make it to the ground from space.
If the sun's mass were to triple, your weight on earth would be unaffected, since your weight is a product of your mass and the gravitational acceleration of earth. We might get some appreciable tidal forces coming from the sun. . .and the sun would burn much hotter . . . and the year would be shorter . . .and I'm sure I've missed some effect other than Earth becoming a planet of rock and steam.
How would your _weight_ be affected? Well, since your water mass would be boiled off, and water makes up 2/3 of the body by mass, your weight would be 1/3 of what it was before. Unless your body then spontaneously caught fire because you're drier than kindling.
Am I reading too much into the question?

Answer 4

All waves travel at the same speed, however, radio waves require less energy since they have a much smaller frequency and periods.
Yes, xray's can go through the earth's atmosphere if something was to produce them (xrays go through almost everything such as skin, but solids such as bone can stop it).
Sun's mass doesn't effect our weight on earth, but the mass of earth effects that.

Answer 5

No, they both travel at the speed of light in vaccum. Yes, x-rays do go through the atmosphere, that's why you don't need to be in a vaccum chamber to get your x-ray taken. If the sun's mass tripled, your weight on earth would be infinitesmally affected as the sun's influence is diminished according to the square of it's distance from you. So the earth, though much less massive, has a preponderance of affect on your weight due to its closeness.

Answer 6

Radio and light travel the same speed
x-rays penetrate slightly - They are highly attenuated
If the sun's mass tripled, you would weigh the same as you cook on here on Earth. (There would be a slight change in weight as the sun's passed overhead because of tidal force, but it would be far less than 1 ounce.)

Answer 7

1. Niether they travel at the same speed as light
2. UV rays can get In so that means that Xrays should be able to get in
3. If the sun gained more mass it could pull the earth into it.

Answer 8

Regardless of the frame of reference of the observer, all light in in a vacuum will be measured to be travelling at the same velocity.

Xrays do go through the atmosphere.

Not at all. (Extremely negligible.) However, we'd all die from the Earth being pulled from it's orbit.