Question

motion?
5. During an experiment, a signal
from a spaceship reached the
ground station in five minutes.
What was the distance of the
spaceship from the ground
station? The signal travels at the
speed of light, that is. 3 x 10 to the power 8 m/sec​

Answer 1

Answer:

Let the distance between the spaceship and the ground station be 'S' .

Then, S=vt

where, v= speed of signal =3×10⁸ m/s

t= time taken =5min=5×60s=300s

∴s=3×10⁸

×300 = 9×10¹⁰  m