Determine how many miles does a pulse of light travel

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Light travels at a speed of about 3.0 10^8 m/s.

(a) How many miles does a pulse of light travel in a time interval of 0.1 s, which is about the blink of an eye?

(b) Compare this distance to the diameter of Earth. (Use 6.38 10^6 m for the radius of the Earth.)

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