Speed of light

From Glossary of Meteorology



speed of light

Without qualification usually means the speed of propagation of electromagnetic radiation of any frequency in free space, a universal constant with the value 2.99792 × 108 m s-1.

Could also mean the phase velocity or group velocity of an electromagnetic wave in a material medium.


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