The American physical chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875-1946) proposed a unit of time called the "jiffy." According to Lewis, 1 jiffy = the time it takes light to travel one centimeter.
(a) If you perform a task in a jiffy, how much time has it taken in seconds?
(b) How many jiffys are in one minute? (Use the fact that the speed of light is approximately 2.9979 × 108 m/s.)