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Acceleration

Light travels...

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Light travels in a straight line with constant speed of $3 \times 10^{8} m s^{- 1}$ What is the acceleration of light?

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As the velocity of light is constant so the acceleration of the light is equal to zero.

$a = \frac{d v}{d t}$

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Light travels in a straight line with constant speed of 3×108ms−1 What is the acceleration of light?

As the velocity of light is constant so the acceleration of the light is equal to zero. a=dvdt

Light travels in a straight line with constant speed of $3 \times 10^{8} m s^{- 1}$ What is the acceleration of light?

As the velocity of light is constant so the acceleration of the light is equal to zero.

$a = \frac{d v}{d t}$