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3 years ago

How is energy measured?

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Because a Btu is so small, energy is usually measured in millions of Btus. 1 Btu = the amount of energy required to increase the temperature of one pound of water (which is equivalent to one pint) by one degree Fahrenheit. This is roughly the heat produced from burning one match.

<em>https://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our-energy-choices/how-is-energy-measured.html</em>

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3 years ago

a hunter 412.5m from a cliff moves a distance x towards the cliff and fires a gun. he hears the echo from the cliff after 2.2sec

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Answer: 49.5 m

Explanation:

The speed of sound $s$ is given by a relation between the distance $d$ and the time $t$ :

$s=\frac{d}{t}$ (1)

Where:

$s=330 m/s$ is the speed of sound in air (taking into account this value may vary according to the medium the sound wave travels)

$d=412.5 m-x$ since we are told th hunter was initially 412.5 meters from the cliff and then moves a distance $x$ towards the cliff

$t=\frac{2.2 s}{2}=1.1 s$ Since the time given as data (2.2 s) is the time it takes to the sound wave to travel from the hunter's gun and then go back to the position where the hunter is after being reflected by the cliff

Having this information clarified, let's isolate $d$ and then find $x$ :

$d=st$ (2)

$412.5 m-x=(330 m/s)(1.1 s)$ (3)

Finding $x$ :

$x=49.5 m$ This is the distance at which the hunter is from the cliff.

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3 years ago

“I know what the atomic number of this atom is, but I don’t know what the number of electrons is,” a friend says. How would you

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Once the atomic number of an atom is known, the number of electrons can be deduced depending on if the atom is an ion or a neutral one.

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The atomic number of an atom is the number of protons in the nucleus of the atom.

For atoms that are neutral, that is, no net charges, the number of protons is always equal to the number of electrons. In other words, the positive charges always balance the negative charges in neutral atoms.

Thus, if the atomic number of a neutral atom is 6, for example, the proton number will also be 6. Since the proton must balance the electron, the number of electrons will also be 6.

More on atomic numbers can be found here; brainly.com/question/17274608

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2 years ago

What is the frequency of a wave with a wavelength of 15 m and a wavespeed of<br> 300 m/s?

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Answer: f=20 (i think)

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all I did was divide 300 and 15.

300/15= 20

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