Chapter 1, Problem 1.50E

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The speed of light that is about $186$ thousand $\text{mi}/\text{s}$ or $1100$ million $\text{km}/\text{h}$ is to be written using scientific notation.

Concept introduction:

Scientific notation is used to write large numbers or small numbers as the product of a non exponential term and exponential term in the form of $M\times {10}^n$. The $M$ is any number between $1$ to $10$ written with a decimal after first non-zero digit in the number and $n$ is the exponent which may be positive or negative.