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Galileo attempted to measure the speed of light by measuring the time elapsed between his opening a lantern and his seeing the light return from his assistant's lantern. what distance, d, must separate galileo and his assistant in order for the human reaction time, δt = 0.2 s, to introduce no more than a 14 % error in the speed of light? answer in meters.

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