Q- Galileo attempted to measure the speed of light by measuring the time elapsed between his opening a lantern and his seeing the return light from his assistant’s lantern, which is opened when the assistant sees the light from Galileo’s lantern. What distance d must separate Galileo from his assistant in order for the human reaction time Δt = 0.2 s, to introduce no more than 15% error in the measured speed of light?
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