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Speed of Light

Denoted with the symbol "c," the speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second and is often rounded as 300,000 kilometres per second or 186,000 miles per second.

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How long would take light to travel from earth to mars at a distance of 56 million km?

At a distance of 56 million kilometers, light requires 3.1 minutes to reach Mars from Earth.

How long does it take for a burst of light from the near center of the Milky Way to reach planet earth?

The Solar System (which includes Earth) is at a distance of about 27,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way; since this distance won't change significantly over time, that means it will take about 27,000 years.

Can light refract if it hits another strong beam of light?

No!! Light beams of photons do not interfere with one another except in crystals as phonons.

What is the speed of the spaceship?

It varies greatly. It will depend on how far away it is from the object it's orbiting. If it is in a circular orbit around the Earth, its speed can be calculated by the formula:

speed = Squareroot(398600/(6371+altitude))

This will give you an answer in kilometers per second.

How diverging lens can produce images that are smaller than the object?

When the object is located at the 2F point, the image will also be located at the 2F point on the other side of the lens. In this case, the image will be inverted (i.e., a right side up object results in an upside-down image). The image dimensions are equal to the object dimensions. A six-foot tall person would have an image that is six feet tall; the absolute value of the magnification is exactly 1. Finally, the image is a real image. Light rays actually converge at the image location. As such, the image of the object could be projected upon a sheet of paper.

Source: The Physics Classroom : Object-Image Relations

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The speed of light will be minimum while passing through?

The speed of light is a constant in a vacuum and does not change, regardless of the medium it passes through.

How long would it take to get to the moon at these speeds a bike at 10kmhr a car at 100 kmhr a spaceship at 20000 kmhr and at the speed of light going 300000 kmsecond?

given that the average distance distance from the Earth to the Moon is 382,500 KM

a Bike @ 10km per hour would take 4.3 Years

a Car @ 100km per hour would take 159.38 days

a ship @ 20,000km per hour would take 19.13 hours

@ the speed of light would take 1.28 seconds

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What do you mean by linear magnification produced by mirrors?

Linear magnification is the complicated process of how light travels and reflects. In a short answer, It would be the trajectory of the light and at what time and speed it traveled, followed by what route it took.

Why is the speed of light medium?

The speed of light is not medium: in vacuum, it is the highest speed that there can be. Hardly a definition of medium!

What is the ratio of speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of sound in air?

In a rough, round figure? 930,000 to 1.

Sound travels roughly 1/5 of a mile per second in air.

Light travels 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum.

In five seconds sound travels one mile.

In five seconds, light travels 930,000 miles in a vacuum.

Who is the first scientist in providing evidence from solar spectra that X-rays travel faster than light?

M.A.Padmanabha Rao,PhD(AIIMS) reported X-rays and Bharat Radiation in 12.87 to 31 nm range travel faster than light in the following paper published in 2013:

Discovery of superluminal velocities of X-rays and Bharat Radiation challenging the validity of Einstein's formula E= mc^2

How many mach are in the speed of light?

The speed of light in vacuum is about 874 thousand times

the speed of sound at sea level.

What exactly is speed of light in miles and kilometers?

The speed of light, in vacuum, is exactly 299,792,458 metres per second or 299,792.458 kilometres per second. The values are exact because this is how a metre is defined.

The relationship between a kilometre and a mile is not exact, so it is not possible to give an exact figure for the speed in miles. It is approximately 186,282 miles per second.

When light enters a medium with a different refractive index they change speed or direction?

yes , if the light travel from less density to more density the speed will decrease

, the direction will change depend on the entered angle

Traveling at speed of light how much time will pass in 70 years on earth?

None. At the speed of light, time stops completely. It is impossible for anything with an invariant mass to move at the speed of light; only particles with no "rest mass" (such as photons) can do so.

Does a beam of light have a constant speed?

Light travels at a constant speed of 299,792,458 meters per second in a vacuum. However, as light travels through different mediums, it slows down depending on the medium. The crazy thing about light though, is that if it leaves a medium and starts travelling back through a vacuum, it once again goes 299,792,458 meters per second.

What is the best fictional way to travel through space fast without messing with time?

The best fictional way to travel through space fast without messing with time is teleportation.

Why would a 1992 Mazda 121 light switch flick onto full lights whenever the car goes over a bump and how do you fix this?

You have a faulty switch in the base of your indicator/light stalk. This switch wears out with use so the lights can flip easily to High beam from Low Beam. The fix: Replace the switch assembly and stalk.