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Speed of Light Questions
PhysicsLight Unit
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Numero 1
• The sun is about 150 million kilometers from earth. How long does it take light from the sun to reach earth? (The speed of light is 3x108 m/s.)
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Question 2
• The horsehead nebula in Orion is 1500 light-years away; the Andromeda galaxy is 2 million light-years away; the most distant quasars are over 10 billion light-years away. Is it possible to know what these objects look like right now? Why or why not?
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Nombre 3
• A light year is a unit of distance, the distance light travels in one year. How many kilometers long is a light-year?
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Answers
• 1. t = 8.3 minutes• 2. No, it takes a long time for that
light to reach us.• 3. 1light-year = 9.5 x 1012 km