The sun is approximately 1,400 million kilometers from the planet saturn, and light from the sun travels to saturn at the rate of approximately 300,000 kilometers per second. approximately how many minutes does it take for light to travel from the sun to saturn?

Light takes 77 minutes to travel from the Sun to Saturn.

Explanation:

The equation for the average velocity can be used to estimate the time that light will take to travel from the Sun to Saturn. The average velocity is defined as:

  (1)

Where v is the velocity, d is the covered distance and t is the time.

Equation 1 can be rewritten for t to get:

It is necessary to express the speed of light in terms of minutes:

⇒ Km/min

It is known that light takes 8,3 minutes to go from the Sun to the Earth, where the distance between each other is 150.000.000 Kilometers.  

luster is not a good characteristic to use by itself because luster is the property of minerals that indicates how much the surface of a mineral reflects light. the luster of a mineral is affected by the brilliance of the light used to observe the mineral surface.

air exerts forces on falling objects near earth’s surface.

explanation:

the term 'free falls' refer to object that are falling towards the earth, in a situation in which gravity is the only force acting on the object.

for an object in free fall, the acceleration is constant (g, the gravitational acceleration), and so the velocity of the object constantly increases.

for objects near earth's surface, there is always another force acting on the object: the resistance due to the air. this force is opposed to the direction of fall of the object, and it is proportional to the velocity of the object, so as the object falls down, this force increases up to a point when it balances the force of gravity, and the object continues its motion at constant velocity (called terminal velocity). since in this case gravity is not the only force acting on the object, we are not in a situation of free fall.