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A laser beam takes $50.0 \mathrm{~ms}$ to be reflected back from a totally reflecting sail on a spacecraft. How far away is the sail?
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0 milliseconds. We convert this time into seconds by multiplying by $10^{-3}$, so $t = 50.0 \times 10^{-3}$ seconds. Show more…
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