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You step onto a hot beach with your bare feet. A nerve impulse, generated in your foot, travels through your nervous system at an average speed of 110 m/s. How much time does it take for the impulse, which travels a distance of 1.74 m, to reach your brain?

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speed=distance/time ... time = distance/speed ... 1.74/110 secs ... 0.0174, just under

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