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3 years ago

What is the minimum mass needed for a star to be on the main sequence? What happens to stars that do not meet the minimum mass?

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Main sequence stars are characterised by the source of their energy.They are all undergoing fusion of hydrogen into helium within their cores. The mass of the star is the main element for such process or phenomenon to take place for it is a determinant of both the rate at which they perform the said activity and the amount of fuel available.

To answer the question, the lower mass limit for a main sequence star is about 0.08. If the mass of a main sequence star is lower than the above-mentioned value, there would be a deficit or insufficiency of gravitational force to generate a standard temperature for hydrogen core fusion to take place and the underdeveloped star would form into a brown dwarf instead.

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3 years ago

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Explanation:

From the question we are told that

The length of the warbler is $L = 14cm = \frac{14}{100} = 0.14m$

The distance from the binoculars is $d = 18cm = \frac{18}{100} = 0.18m$

The magnification of the binoculars is $M =8$

Without the 8 X binoculars the angle made with the angular size of the object is mathematically represented as

$\theta = \frac{L}{d}$

$\theta = \frac{0.14}{0.18}$

$= 0.007778 rad$

Now magnification can be represented mathematically as

$M = \frac{\theta _z}{\theta}$

Where $\theta_z$ is the angle the image of the warbler subtend on your retina when the binoculars i.e the binoculars zoom.

$\theta_z = M * \theta$

=> $\theta_z =8 * 0.007778$

$= 0.0622222224$

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3 years ago

When a certain air-filled parallel-plate capacitor is connected across a battery, it acquires a charge of magnitude 172 μC on ea

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Answer:

k = 2.279

Explanation:

Given:

Magnitude of charge on each plate, Q = 172 μC

Now,

the capacitance, C of a capacitor is given as:

C = Q/V

where,

V is the potential difference

Thus, the capacitance due to the charge of 172 μC will be

C = $\frac{(172\ \mu C)}{V}$

Now, when the when the additional charge is accumulated

the capacitance (C') will be

C' = $\frac{(172+220)\ \mu C)}{V}$

C' = $\frac{(392)\ \mu C)}{V}$

now the dielectric constant (k) is given as:

$k=\frac{C'}{C}$

substituting the values, we get

$k=\frac{\frac{(392\ \mu C)}{V}}{\frac{(172)\ \mu C)}{V}}$

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Alik [6]

Answer:

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In this case, the Doppler effect equation in terms of wavelength is :

$\lambda_{s} = \lambda_{o}\sqrt{\frac{1-\frac{v}{c} }{1+\frac{v}{c} } }$ ......(1)

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Given :

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Substitute these values in the equation (1).

$555\times10^{-9} } = 660\times10^{-9} \sqrt{\frac{1-\frac{v}{c} }{1+\frac{v}{c} } }$

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$1-\frac{v}{c}=0.7056+0.7056\frac{v}{c}$

$\frac{v}{c}=\frac{0.2944}{8.056}$

$v = 0.036c=0.036\times3\times10^{8}$

v = 1.08 x 10⁷ m/s

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