Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Olivia on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 6:54pm.

The established value for the speed of light in a vacuum is 299 792 458 m/s. What is the order-of-magnitude of this number?

Physics - bobpursley, Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 7:01pm
Looks like 200 million to me.

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