Why steel ships becomes megnetized as it is constructed

1) sections 1, 2, and 10 are significant primarily because they suggest the likelihood that a) widow wycherly is actually the woman in the full-length portrait. b) dr. heidegger wants to include his guests in an experiment with the water. c) dr. heidegger plans to drink some of the water from the vase and needs witnesses. d) the guests will be asked to witness dr. heidegger's transformation when he drinks the water.

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.

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