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High schoolers explore physics by completing measurement problems in class. In this speed of light lesson, students discuss the importance of knowing the speed of light and how it affects many aspects of human life on Earth. High schoolers identify the time it takes for a TV to receive its signal and compare that to the rate of light coming from the Sun.

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the speed of light, light, sunlight, the sun

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Physics, speed of light, sun and moon, sunlight, math
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Grade
9th - 12th
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Math
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1 hr
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