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Chapter 4: Q1E (page 1073)

(a) How much time does it take light to travel from the moon to the earth, a distance of 384,000 km? (b) Light from the star Sirius takes 8.61 years to reach the earth. What is the distance from earth to Sirius in kilometers?

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Time taken by light to travel from moon to the earth is 1.28s

The distance between the star sirius and earth is 8.16*1016m

Step by step solution

01

The speed of light and distance and time formula.

The speed of light is3*108m/s

Distance = speed*time.

02

Time taken by light to travel from moon to the earth.

The given information is that the distance between earth and the moon is 38400km.

Therefore, Time taken = distance / (speed of light)

Ie.

t=3.84*1083*108t=1.28s

03

Distance between sirius and earth.

The given information is the time taken by light to travel from sirius to earth is 8.61 years.

Therefore, distance = (speed of light) * time

First we need to convert the time taken taken into seconds where 3.154*107is the number of seconds in a year..

8.61*3.154*107=2.72*108seconds.

Now the distance between sirius and earth is,

d=3*1082.72*108d=8.16*1016m

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