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We see the firework works first because the because burning emits light . It is a fact that it travels faster than sound . So the sound energy produced during the burning of fire work reaches us late . So we hear the sound after vizualizing it.

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Light travels faster than sound, so when fireworks are set off, the light reaches your eyes first before the sound waves reach your ears. This creates a delay between seeing the fireworks and hearing the noise they produce.

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10mo ago
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You see the flash before you hear the boom because light travels faster than sound.

Sound travels approximately 1,100 FEET per second.

Light travels approximately 186,000 MILES per second.

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7y ago
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This is because the speed of light is greater than the speed of sound.

The distance from the fireworks is also a variable regarding when you hear

the sound, the further away you are the longer it takes to hear the sound.

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Answer #2:

Because the light travels from the fireworks to you about

875 thousand times faster than the sound does.

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11y ago
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Speed of light is faster than speed of sound.

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15y ago
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Because light travels more than a million times faster than sound.

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13y ago
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Because light travels faster than sound.

Sound travels approximately 1,100 FEET per second.

Light travels approximately 186,000 MILES per second.

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14y ago
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The same reason you see lightning before hearing thunder, because light travels faster than sound. The speed of light is 671 million (671,000,000) mph versus the speed of sound 768 mph

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14y ago
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because light travel faster than s ound

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