How many minutes it takes light from there sun to reach the earth?

Answer 1

With the simple equation: Rate*Time=Distance. Since you need to find the time it would be: Time=Distance/Rate. The sun is approximately 93 million miles from the Earth and the speed of light is approximately 186000 miles per second. So you would take 93000000/186000, which equals 500. It takes about 500 seconds(around 8 minutes) for the Sun's light to reach Earth.

Answer 2

it is 8 minutes and 33 seconds

This is a break down of the speed of light over distance.

To reach the sun at light speed which is 1AU away appx 92-94 million miles away light travels at 186,000 miles a second.

186,000*60=11,160,000 miles a minute

92,000,000/11,160,000=8.2437 min

94,000,000/11,160,000=8.4229 min

8.2437+8.4229=16.6666/2=8.33 min is the mean time for light to reach the sun from earth or earth to the sun.
Light travels at 186,000 miles a second at the Earth is 93 million miles to Sun on average. This works out as 8.33 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Earth

Answer 3

You first have to work out the distance, which can vary a lot for Pluto depending on where it is in it's orbit. It averages about 3.67 billion miles from the sun. Subtract the earth to sun distance to give 3.58 billion miles. You then need to work out what speed you are going to go. Divide the distance by this speed to give time taken, though you may have to change units from hours to years by dividing by 24 and again by 365.25.

Answer 4

As the distance between the Sun and the Earth varies, we will go with the mean distance.

d=150,000,000km

c=299,792,458mps.

d/c=~500s which is 8.33333r minutes (8 minutes and 20 seconds)

Answer 5

It takes approximately 8 minutes for the Sun's light to reach Earth.

Answer 6

The light from the sun takes approximately 8 minutes 20 seconds to the Earth.

Answer 7

Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth.