motion?
5. During an experiment, a signal
from a spaceship reached the
ground station in five minutes.
What wa

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​

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  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

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