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3 years ago

Which telescope would be better viewing a faint, distant star? Why?

Physics

1 answer:

grin007 [14]3 years ago

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Reflecting telescope. Reflecting telescopes tend to have larger objective (due to the use of mirrors, mirrors are a lot cheaper than lenses) and have the ability to collect more light, while refracting telescopes are limited to objective lenses with smaller diameters due to their structural limitations (chromatic abbreviation, for example). Therefore, reflecting telescopes should be better at viewing faint distant stars

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Answer: 500 s

Explanation:

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$v=\frac{d}{t}$

Where:

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$d=1.5(10)^{11}m$ is the distance between the Earth and Sun

$t$ is the time it takes to the light to travel the distance $d$

Isolating $t$ :

$t=\frac{d}{v}$

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Is a spring stores 5 J of energy when its conpresses by 0.5 m what is the spring constant of the spring?

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Answer:

k = 40 N/m

Explanation:

A spring's energy is given:

$U = 0.5kx^2$

U is the energy in the spring, k is the spring constant and x is the spring displacement.

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$5 J = 0.5k(0.5m)^2\\5J = 0.5k(0.25m^2)\\5J = k*(0.125)m^2\\\\k = 5J/(0.125)m^2\\k = 40 N/m$

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The relationship between the number of visible spectral lines are identical for atoms .However they have unique wavelengths.

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Too old(Ex. if real time is 1000 then they estimate >1000)

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