Suppose it takes 3 days for a space vehicle to travel from earth to the moon. How long for the same vehichle and the same speed to reach Jupiter? Moon distance from earth is 240,000 miles. Jupiter distance from earth is 391,000,000 miles
Ignoring gravity effects on acceleration, then
time=3days*391,000,000/240,000
Twenty four times ten to the fourth power.
To find out how long it will take for the same space vehicle to reach Jupiter, we need to compare the distances between the Earth and the Moon, and the Earth and Jupiter.
The distance from Earth to the Moon is 240,000 miles, and it takes 3 days to travel that distance. Therefore, the vehicle's average speed is:
Speed = Distance / Time = 240,000 miles / 3 days = 80,000 miles per day
Now, let's calculate how many days it would take to reach Jupiter. The distance from Earth to Jupiter is 391,000,000 miles. We can use the same average speed to calculate the time:
Time = Distance / Speed = 391,000,000 miles / 80,000 miles per day
To simplify the calculation, we can convert the distance to miles per day by multiplying it by the average speed:
Time = 391,000,000 miles / (80,000 miles per day) = 4,887.5 days
Therefore, it would take approximately 4,887.5 days for the same vehicle, traveling at the same speed, to reach Jupiter from Earth.