How long would it take a lightning bolt to get from point A to B?

Question

lightning bolt = 100,000 mph = 1666.6666666666666666666666666667 miles per. sec.
one mile = 5280 feet = 105,599,999.99999999999999999999997 inchs

ok so how long would it take it to travel one inch?

point A to point B is 2 inchs. What would the frequency be if it could be sustained?

Answer 1

1/105,599,999.9999999 of an hour if your numbers are right. There isn't enough information given to determine any type of frequency from your question.

Answer 2

The only way I could think of that you could have frequency involved would be if your sustained lightning were a series of strokes and return strokes. If that were the case, I guess one complete cycle would be a 2" stroke and a 2" return stroke, for a grand total of 4" per cycle. Calculate how many times this can happen in a second, there's your frequency.

? inches/sec = 100,000 mi/hr * (63360 in/mi) * (1 hr/3600 sec)

I just multiplied by 1 a couple times to fix the units.

(100,000 * 63360)/3600 = 1,760,000 inches/sec, divide by 4 to get cycles/sec = 440,000 Hz (440 kHz). Of course that's if I figured out correctly what you meant by frequency...

Invert the 1,760,000 inches/sec to get how long it takes to go one inch: 1/1,760,000 of a sec.

Answer 3

In other words, the speed of light. You do the division.