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swat32
3 years ago
14

How long will a plane have to fly continuously with 900 miles per hour in order to cover the same distance as that from Earth to

the next star, Proxima Centauri?
Physics
1 answer:
hammer [34]3 years ago
4 0

I'm not sure about the distance to the nearest star, but it's probably about        4 light-years (L-y).

1 L-y = 1.86 * 10E5 mi/sec * 3600 sec/hr * 24 hr/day * 365 day/yr

1 L-y = 5.9 *10E12 mi   and 4 L-y = 2.3 *10E13 mi    distance to star

2.3 * 10E13 mi / 900 mi/hr = 2.6 * 10E10 hr       hours to star

2.6 * 10E10 hr / (24 hr/day) = 1.1 * 10E9 day     days to star

1.1 * 10E9 day / 365 day/yr = 3 * 10E6 yr = 3 million years to star

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