Light travels 300,000,000 m/s, and one year has approximately 32,000,000 seconds. A light year is the distance light travels in one year. Calculate the distance in meters of one light year.
The displacement of something is proportional to the product of its velocity and the time over which the movement took place. [tex]d=vt[/tex] [tex]d=(300000000 \frac{m}{s})(32000000s)= 9600000000000000m=9.6* 10^{15}m [/tex]
