Suppose you are standing in the dark and facing a 20-W LED bulb 100 meters away. If the diameter of your pupils is about 8 mm under these conditions, about how many photons of visible light enter your eye every second? (Hint: the answer is about 6 billion photons per second)

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Suppose you are standing in the dark and facing a 20-W LED bulb 100 meters away. If the diameter of your pupils is about 8 mm under these conditions, about how many photons of visible light enter your eye every second?

(Hint: the answer is about 6 billion photons per second)

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