The transit method requires watching the light output of a star over long periods of time. A transit occurs when the planet crosses in front of its star from earths point of view. Since there is a small object (the planet) now blocking some of the star, it appears to dim a little bit for a while until the planet passes. If we are in a position where that occurs regularly (most paths of planets do not happen to be on the line of sight between earth and their star) we can deduce the period of orbit. From the amount of dimming and the period you can estimate the mass
I believe the answer is A.
Since the Earth is in the Milky Way and not outside it, we cannot see the exact shape of it. Physicists have been able to track and graph the movements of the planets accurately for thousands of years, but that does not mean we know the shape of the entire solar system.<span />
Answer:
I think it is 5.6. This is my answer
(a) Let 
be the maximum linear speed with which the ball can move in a circle without breaking the cord. Its centripetal/radial acceleration has magnitude
where 
is the radius of the circle.
The tension in the cord is what makes the ball move in its plane. By Newton's second law, the maximum net force on it is
so that
Solve for :
(b) The net force equation in part (a) leads us to the relation
so that is directly proportional to the square root of . As the radius increases, the maximum linear speed will also increase, so the cord is less likely to break if we keep up the same speed.
Answer:
1170 m
Explanation:
Given:
a = 3.30 m/s²
v₀ = 0 m/s
v = 88.0 m/s
x₀ = 0 m
Find:
x
v² = v₀² + 2a(x - x₀)
(88.0 m/s)² = (0 m/s)² + 2 (3.30 m/s²) (x - 0 m)
x = 1173.33 m
Rounded to 3 sig-figs, the runway must be at least 1170 meters long.
