When Earth runs into the dust trail left behind by a comet that is orbiting the Sun, Earth experiences a _____.
2 answers:
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Answer:
at the beginning:
when the plates are pulled apart:
Explanation:
The capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor is given by
where
k is the relative permittivity of the medium (for air, k=1, so we can omit it)
is the permittivity of free space
A is the area of the plates of the capacitor
d is the separation between the plates
In this problem, we have:
is the area of the plates
is the separation between the plates at the beginning
Substituting into the formula, we find
Later, the plates are pulled apart to , so the capacitance becomes
Answer:
n=2.053
Explanation:
We will use Snell's Law defined as:
Where n values are indexes of refraction and values are the angles in each medium. For vacuum, the index of refraction in n=1. With this we have enough information to state:
Solving for yields:
Remember to use degrees for trigonometric functions instead of radians!