<span>The absolute magnitude of a star is how bright it would appear to us
if it were located ten parsecs (about 32.6 light years) from us. So it's
a way of treating all stars equally ... on a "level playing field" ... and it
describes each star's actual brightness. </span>
The addition of any numbers of vector provide the magnitude as well as the direction of the resultant vector, hence the mentioned first option is not true.
The addition of vector required to connect the head of the one vector with the tail of the other vector and any vector can be moved in the plane parallet to the previous location, so, the mentioned second and third options are true.
Answer:
Explanation:
5p - 14 = 8p + 4
5p = 8p + 18 <-- Moving constants to one side; add the same number of +14 to both sides.
-3p = 18. <-- The same thing with the variable itself.
p = -6 <-- Divide both sides by negative 3.
There's a very subtle thing going on here, one that could blow your mind.
Wherever we look in the universe, no matter what direction we look,
we see the light from distant galaxies arriving at our telescopes with
longer wavelengths than the light SHOULD have.
The only way we know of right now that can cause light waves to get
longer after they leave the source is motion of the source away from
the observer. The lengthening of the waves on account of that motion
is called the Doppler effect. (The answer to the question is choice-c.)
But that may not be the only way that light waves can get stretched. It's
the only way we know of so far, and so we say that the distant galaxies
are all moving away from us.
From that, we say the whole universe is expanding, and that right there is
one of the strongest observations that we explain with the Big Bang theory
of creation.
Now: If ... say tomorrow ... a competent Physicist discovers another way
for light waves to get stretched after they leave the source, then the whole
"expanding universe" idea is out the window, and probably the Big Bang
theory along with it !
Now that our mind has been blown, come back down to Earth with me,
and I'll give you something else to think about:
It's true that when we look at distant galaxies, we do see their light
arriving in our telescopes with longer wavelengths than it should have.
And then we use the Doppler effect to calculate how fast that galaxy
is moving away from us. That's all true. Astronomers are doing it
every day. I mean every night.
So here's the question for you to think about ... maybe even READ about:
When the light from a distant galaxy pours into our telescope, and we
look at it, and we measure its wavelength, and we find that the wavelength
is longer than it should be ... how do we know what it should be ? ? ?
