Hey everyone I need help with this problem solving. The problem solving is the following: Hobby researcher Lilius happened to shrink their children to the size of a bacterium. In the microscope, he saw how they were chased by a nasty little virus. The children were, however talented sprinters, which in the scale implied rate 5 micron / s (equivalent to the speed of a 100m runner). How long did it take for the kids to run across the microscope slide that was 1 cm wide?
+37084 A micron is one-millionth of a meter 1 x 10^-6 m
so they run 5 x 10^-6 m/s
1 cm = 1 x 10^-2 m 1 x 10^-2m/ 5 x 10^-6 m/s = .2 x 10^(-2+6) s = .2 x 10^4 s = 2x 10^3 sec = 2000 seconds
