1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
nignag [31]
3 years ago
14

How does the heat from sun reach earth

Physics
1 answer:
kakasveta [241]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

The sun heats the earth through radiation. Since there is no medium (like the gas in our atmosphere) in space, radiation is the primary way that heat travels in space. When the heat reaches the earth it warms the molecules of the atmosphere, and they warm other molecules and so on.

You might be interested in
Use the fact that the speed of light in a vacuum is about 3.00 × 108 m/s to determine how many kilometers a pulse from a laser b
Morgarella [4.7K]
The first thing that needs to be done is to find everything in the same units.  12 hours becomes 43200 seconds.  Then find the distance traveled by light in that amount of time.  Using the formula v=d/s, manipulate it so it looks like d=v*s.  Then plug in the values: d=(3x10^8)*43200,  d=1.3x10^13m.  But you need to find this in kilometers.  To do this, simply divide your answer by one thousand.  Thus, a laser beam would travel 1.3x10^10 kilometers in 12 hours.
5 0
3 years ago
What is the difference in force of a car and a tractor
vodka [1.7K]

Answer:

See a tractor is more slow but has a greater force and a car is fast but has a slower force

Explanation:

so your answer is Tractors have more force then cars

6 0
3 years ago
What is the name of the force that slows it down?.
Rus_ich [418]
Gravity pulls to the centre of the earth. A ship floats in water because the water pushing it up (upthrust) is equal to the force<span> of gravity (weight) pulling it </span>down<span>. Friction also occurs when objects move through air. This is </span>called<span>air resistance.</span>
6 0
3 years ago
Review 1: A plane is located x = 40 miles (horizontally) away from an airport at an altitude of h miles. Radar at the airport de
-Dominant- [34]

Explanation:

Let h is the height of the plane above ground. x is the horizontal distance between the ground and the airport. Let s(t) is the distance between the plane and the airport. So,

s(t)^2={h^2+x^2}...........(1)

Given, h = 4, x = 40 and s(t) = -20 mph

Differentiate equation (1) wrt t

2s(t)s'(t)=2x(t)x'(t)

x'(t)=\dfrac{s(t)s'(t)}{x(t)}

When x = 40, s(t)=\sqrt{40^2+4^2}=40.19\ m

x'(t)=\dfrac{-240s(t)}{x(t)}

x'(t)=\dfrac{-240\times 40.19}{40}

x'(t)=-241.14\ m/s

So, the speed of the airplane is 241.14  m/s. Hence, this is the required solution.

8 0
3 years ago
A school bus has a mass (including the driver and passengers) of 1.64 times 10^4 kg and is driving north at a speed of 15.2 km/h
Butoxors [25]

Answer:

Explanation:

Given

mass of bus along with travelers travelling in North direction is m_1=1.6\times 10^4 kg

speed of bus towards North v_1=15.2 km/h\approx 4.22\ m/s

mass of bus travelling in South direction is m_2=1.578\times 10^4 kg

speed of bus v_2=12.2 km/h\approx 3.38\ m/s

mass of each Passenger in south moving bus m_0=64.8 kg

Momentum of North moving bus

P_1=m_1\times v_1

P_1=1.6\times 10^4\times 4.22

P_1=6.768\times 10^4 kg-m/s

Momentum with south moving bus

P_2=m_2\times v_2+n\cdot m_0\times v_2

P_2=(1.578\times 10^4+n\cdot 64.8 )\cdot 3.38

For total momentum to be towards south

P_2-P_1 should be greater than 0

thus for least value of n

P_2=P_1

(1.578\times 10^4+n\cdot 64.8 )\cdot 3.38=6.768\times 10^4

1.578\times 10^4+n\cdot 64.8=2.0023\times 10^4

n=\frac{4243.6686}{64.8}=65.48\approx 66    

5 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Why is it inaccurate to use mgy to calculate the potential energy of a satellite orbiting earth at a height one earth radius abo
    7·1 answer
  • What is a scientific theory? A law that is always true a hypothesis about nature and educated guess based on observations an exp
    11·1 answer
  • Which form of nitrogen can immediately be used by plants
    11·1 answer
  • An electrical power plant manages to transfer 88 percent of the heat produced in the burning of fossil fuel to convert water to
    11·1 answer
  • The terminal speed of a sky diver is 163 km/h in the spread-eagle position and 325 km/h in the nosedive position. Assuming that
    7·1 answer
  • 13.4. Young's modulus for iron is 1.9 x 10' Pa. When an iron wire 1.0 m long with a cross-sectional area of 4.0 mm
    14·1 answer
  • Pretend for a day your non-dominant hand is broken and you can’t use of it. Pay attention to the activities you do every day. Yo
    8·1 answer
  • How does an executive order differ from a statue?
    7·1 answer
  • Please answer the following question
    9·1 answer
  • 5. a new type of hoverboard has been designed to levitate over a copper surface. the
    8·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!