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3 years ago

Can an object contain heat? Why or why not?

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Every object has thermal energy (better word than heat, since we associate that with high temperatures). This is actually the molecules vibrating, moving a lot. More thermal energy means more vibrating, and thus also expanding in volume.

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A meteor is the flash of light that we see in the night sky when a small chunk of interplanetary debris burns up as it passes through our atmosphere. "Meteor" refers to the flash of light caused by the debris, not the debris itself.

If any part of a meteoroid survives the fall through the atmosphere and lands on Earth, it is called a meteorite.

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C. An inital volocity that is faster than the final volocity

Explanation:

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2 years ago

The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit above the Earth has a 2.4 m circular aperture. The telescope has equipment for detecting ult

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Option d

The minimum angular separation between two objects that the Hubble Space Telescope can resolve is $4.8x10^{-8}rad$ .

Explanation:

The resulting image in a telescope that will be gotten from an object is a diffraction pattern instead of a perfect point (point spread function (PSF)).

That diffraction pattern is gotten because the light encounters different obstacles on its path inside the telescope (interacts with the walls and edges of the instrument).

The diffraction pattern is composed by a central disk, called Airy disk, and diffraction rings.

The angular resolution is defined as the minimal separation at which two sources can be resolved one for another, or in other words, when the distance between the two diffraction pattern maxima is greater than the radius of the Airy disk.

The angular resolution can be determined in analytical way by means of the Rayleigh criterion.

$\theta = 1.22\frac{\lambda}{D}$ (1)

Where $\lambda$ is the wavelength and D is the diameter of the telescope.

Notice that it is necessary to express the wavelength in the same units than the diameter.

$\lambda = 95nm \cdot \frac{1x10^{-9}m}{1nm}$ ⇒ $9.5x10^{-8}m$

Finally, equation 1 can be used.

$\theta = 1.22(\frac{9.5x10^{-8}m}{2.4m})$

$\theta = 4.8x10^{-8}rad$

Hence, the minimum angular separation between two objects that the Hubble Space Telescope can resolve is $4.8x10^{-8}rad$ .

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3 years ago

When you push a 2.00 kg book resting on a tabletop it takes 4.60 N to start the book sliding. What is the coefficient of static

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The coefficient of static friction is 0.234.

Answer:

Explanation:

Frictional force is equal to the product of coefficient of friction and normal force acting on any object.

So here the mass of the object is given as 2 kg, so the normal force will be acting under the influence of acceleration due to gravity.

Normal force = mass * acceleration due to gravity

Normal force = 2 * 9.8 = 19.6 N.

And the frictional force is given as 4.6 N, then

$Coefficient of static friction = Frictional force/Normal force$

Coefficient of static friction = 4.6 N / 19.6 N = 0.234

So the coefficient of static friction is 0.234.

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What accounts for the two precipitation peaks in mbandaka?

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The two precipitation peaks in Mbandaka during March to April and September to November is due to the intertropical convergence zone.

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<span>Since Mbandaka is located at the cented of Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe area, which is named as a Wetland of International importance, there is really a bigger chance that this place experience above 60mm precipitation in a year, temperatures averaging from 23 – 26 degrees Celsius.</span>

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