College Physics (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073512141
ISBN 13: 978-0-07351-214-3

Chapter 22 - Problems - Page 863: 12

Answer

It takes 500 seconds for sunlight to travel from the sun to the Earth.

Work Step by Step

We can find the time it takes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the Earth: $t = \frac{d}{c}$ $t = \frac{1.5\times 10^{11}~m}{3.0\times 10^8~m/s}$ $t = 500~s$ It takes 500 seconds for sunlight to travel from the sun to the Earth.
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