Suppose the Speed of Light Is Determined Experimentally to Be $\times$

question 8

Multiple Choice

Suppose the speed of light is determined experimentally to be 299,796 ± 4 km/s.If the total path length for your interferometer is exactly 11.0 m,how big an error in the time required for the light to travel through the apparatus corresponds to the uncertainty (±4 km/s) in the speed of light?

• A)4.9 \(\times\) 10^-13 s
• B)2.7 \(\times\) 10^-3 s
• C)3.7 \(\times\) 10^-8 s
• D)4.9 \(\times\) 10^-10 s
• E)9.2 \(\times\) 10^-12 s

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