The speed of light in a vacuum is 186282.397 miles per second.
The distance something travels in a given time and at constant speed is given by
d = s*t
where d is the distance traveled, s is the speed, and t is the time.
In our case, s = 186282.397 miles per second and t= 100 seconds.
d = (186282.397 miles per second)*(100 seconds) = 18628239.7 miles
So, in 100 seconds, light travels 18628239.7 miles.
Light travels at a speed of approximately 186,282 miles per second. In 17 minutes, light would travel approximately 62,687,700 miles.
1227000000 miles
The answer of this question is at the end of the next paragraph if you don't want to know how I got it. There are 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour, 24 hours per day, and 365 days per year. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. I'll show you the math that I did. 60 times 60 is 3,600. 3,600 is how many seconds are in an hour so multiply it by 24 to get how many seconds in a day which is 86,400 seconds. Then you would need to find out how many seconds are in a year so you multiply 86,400 by 365 and get, 31,536,000 seconds. Now that you know how many seconds are in a year all that has to be done is multiplying the speed of light by that number. 5,865,696,000,000 miles, or 5 trillion 865 billion 696 million miles are in 1 light-year. Since you want how many miles are in 8 light years you have to multiply 5,865,696,000,000 by 8. You get 46,925,568,000,000 miles.
To convert speed from miles per hour to feet per second, you need to multiply by 1.46667. So at 25 miles per hour, you are traveling at approximately 36.67 feet per second. To travel 100 feet at this speed, it would take around 2.73 seconds.
9,460,730,472,580.8 km Light travels at 299,792.458 km/sec. There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, and 365.24 days in a year. Multiply all those together to get the distance that light travels in one year.
distance = speed x time. Multiply the speed of light (in miles/second in this case) by the time in seconds, to get the distance travel in miles.
Light travels approximately 186,282 miles per second, so it takes about 1/186,282 seconds to travel 1 mile.
800,000 seconds per minute Light travel approximately 3x10^8 ms-1 or approx 186,000 miles/second.
Light travels 186,282.397 miles per second. That is 983,571,056 feet per second.
There are only 31,536,000 seconds in a year. So, light can only travel for 31,536,000 in a year.
About 500 seconds
The distance from the Earth to the Sun is approximately 93 million miles (about 150 million kilometers). At the speed of light, it would take light 500 seconds to travel this distance. This is because light travels at a speed of about 186,282 miles per second or 299,792 kilometers per second.
3600 seconds.
70.32 seconds.
514.28 seconds.
0.01717822s
The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is about 1.28 light-seconds. This means it takes light about 1.28 seconds to travel from the Earth to the Moon.