SOLUTION: The average distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million miles. Using the velocity of light, find an approximate value for the amount of time it takes a light ray to travel
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Question 229149: The average distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million miles. Using the velocity of light, find an approximate value for the amount of time it takes a light ray to travel from the sun to the earth. Please help and thank you.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The average distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million miles.
Using the velocity of light, find an approximate value for the amount of time it
takes a light ray to travel from the sun to the earth.
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Using accepted value for the speed of light, 186,000 mi/sec
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= 500 sec which is 8 min 20 sec
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