The star nearest to our solar system is said to be 3.8 ly away. How many km. away is this if a spaceship can travel at the speed 100 times that sound , how long armed it take that spaceship to travel from the earth to the nearest star. Express your answer in meaningful term.
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<<The star nearest to our solar system is said to be 3.8 ly away. How many km away is this? >>
Multiply ten years (converted to seconds) by the speed of light, 3.00*10^5 km/s. That will be the distance in km
For the time required, divide the distance by 100*0.340 km/s = 34 km/s
Actually, spacecraft can go faster than than mach 100. It doesn't make sense to refer to the speed of sound in space
To calculate the distance from Earth to the nearest star in kilometers, we need to convert light-years to kilometers.
1 light-year (ly) is equal to the distance that light travels in one year, which is roughly 9.461 trillion kilometers.
So, if the nearest star is 3.8 ly away, we can calculate the distance in kilometers by multiplying 3.8 by 9.461 trillion.
Distance from Earth to the nearest star in kilometers = 3.8 ly * 9.461 trillion km/ly
Now to calculate the time it would take for a spaceship traveling at a speed 100 times the speed of sound to cover this distance.
The speed of sound in air is approximately 343 meters per second. Therefore, a spaceship traveling at 100 times the speed of sound would travel at a speed of 100 * 343 meters per second.
To convert this speed from meters per second to kilometers per second, we divide the speed by 1000 since there are 1000 meters in a kilometer.
Spaceship speed = (100 * 343) m/s / 1000 km/m
Finally, to get the time it would take for the spaceship to travel from Earth to the nearest star, we divide the distance (in kilometers) by the spaceship speed (in kilometers per second).
Time taken to travel from Earth to nearest star = Distance / Spaceship speed
You can now substitute the values into the equation to get the final answer.