Acoin is dropped from a height of 188 meters. neglecting air resistance, how much time (in seconds) was the coin in the air?

Calculate the work done by an external agent during an isothermal compression of 1.00 mol of oxygen from a volume of 22.4 l at 10∘c and 1.0 atm pressure to 16.8l

Unpolarized light of intensity so passes through two sheets of polarizing material whose transmission axes make an angle of 60∘ with each other as shown in the figure. what is the intensity of the transmitted beam, st?

Light from the sun reaches the earth in 8.3 minutes. the velocity is 3.00 x 10^8 m/s. how far is earth from the sun? i know how to get to d = (3 x 10^8 m/s)(498 sec). i just don't know how to get from there to the answer being 1.5 x 10^11 m.