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A "light-year" is the distance light (speed = 2.998 108 m/s) travels in one year.
(a) How many meters are there in 14.0 light-years?

2007-01-18 15:49:15 · 11 answers · asked by nafiseh g 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

11 answers

A few.

2007-01-18 15:54:32 · answer #1 · answered by robert m 7 · 0 0

If light travels 2998108 metres in a second, then it will travel
2998108 * 60 metres in a minute
2998108 * 60 * 60 metres in an hour
2998108 * 60 * 60 * 24 metres in a day

Keep going, until you find out how far the light will travel in 14 years, which will give the answer

2007-01-18 15:53:38 · answer #2 · answered by Paul B 2 · 0 0

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second). Therefore, a light second is 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers). A light year is the distance that light can travel in a year, or:


186,000 miles/second * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles/year
A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles (9,460,800,000,000 kilometers). That's a long way!

So, multiply that number of kilometers times 14 light years, and your answer would be 132,451,200,000,000 kilometers.

2007-01-18 16:09:49 · answer #3 · answered by JOHN B 6 · 0 0

there's no acceleration of the wave. that is why many communicate over with a photon as a massless particle. to attempt to describe that compared to something that has a relax mass it would not want to be sped up. The wave has a % determined by technique of the electric powered/magnetic houses of area. and prefer water waves we may be able to develop or decrease the flexibility by technique of adjusting the amplitude yet no longer the wave %.

2016-10-15 10:41:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

convert it into meters per minute, then convert to meters per hour, then convert to meters/day, then meters/year. Multiply that number by 14.

2007-01-18 15:52:47 · answer #5 · answered by polevaulter1000 3 · 0 0

1year
= 365.25 days
= 8766 hours
= 525960 minutes
= 31557600 seconds
31557600s*2.998108m/s = 94613093.0208 m in one year
in 14 years = 1324583302.2912 m

2007-01-18 15:56:17 · answer #6 · answered by Brian F 4 · 0 0

There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year, so two multiplications will give you the answer.

2007-01-18 15:52:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

132,450,226,616,131,200 Meters

2007-01-18 15:56:26 · answer #8 · answered by Winnipeg76 3 · 0 0

1.4times 10^17.

2007-01-18 15:53:19 · answer #9 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0 0

132451200000000000 - roughly (seriously)

2007-01-18 15:55:29 · answer #10 · answered by teef_au 6 · 0 0

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