SOLUTION: How long does it take a beam of light to reach Earth from the Sun when the Sun is 93,000,000 miles from Earth? Express your answer in scientific notation.

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Question 1208145: How long does it take a beam of light to reach Earth from the Sun when the Sun is 93,000,000 miles from Earth? Express your answer in scientific notation.
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To learn more about determining speed of light, read these fascinating sources

(1) Who, when and how first determined speed of light

https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/ole-roemer-speed-of-light#:~:text=In%201676%2C%20the%20Danish%20astronomer,eclipses%20of%20Jupiter's%20moon%20Io.


(2) The book by Michelson about his experiments on determining speed of light

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11753/pg11753-images.html

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA434600.pdf