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4 years ago

What role do currents play in transporting heat? How does water temperature affect land nearby?

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When warm currents move over cool land surface, they dissipate heat due to the temperature gradient . They hence warm up the land they blow over. If a cold current blows over warm land, the land loses heat to the current. This is how currents distribute heat across the earth.

When the current blow from water to land, the current will be warm or cold depending on the water temperatures. Therefore, they will warm up or cool the adjacent land mass.

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DochEvi [55]

Answer:

3.83×10⁻¹⁹ J

Explanation:

The energy of a photon can be found using the formula: E=hc/λ

h is Planck's Constant which is approximately 6.63×10⁻³⁴
c is the speed of light which we'll round to 3.00×10⁸
λ is the wavelength of the photon. You typed 5200 but that's not even within the visible light spectrum's wavelength range, so I'm going to assume you meant 520 nm; or 5.20×10⁻⁷ m.

Plugging all that info in should give approximately 3.83×10⁻¹⁹ Joules of energy.

(You could get slight variations depending on what you chose to round up or down or not at all.)

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3 years ago

A planet has a surface temperature of 95.0 K and an atmospheric pressure of 1.60 atm. If 4.87 L of atmosphere has a mass of 28.6

mr Goodwill [35]

Answer:

M=28.88 gm/mol

Explanation:

Given that

T= 95 K

P= 1.6 atm

V= 4.87 L

m = 28.6 g

R=0.08206L atm .mol .K

We know that gas equation for ideal gas

P V = n R T

P=Pressure , V=Volume ,n=Moles,T= Temperature ,R=gas constant

Now by putting the values

P V = n R T

1.6 x 4.87 = n x 0.08206 x 95

n=0.99 moles

We know that number of moles given as

$n=\dfrac{m}{M}$

M=Molar mass

$n=\dfrac{m}{M}$

$0.99=\dfrac{28.6}{M}$

M=28.88 gm/mol

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3 years ago

Why would ash from a volcano make the temperature drop?

Komok [63]

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3 years ago

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LUCKY_DIMON [66]

It sounds like a special relativity question but I need more info for a total answer. But remember it's length in the lab frame is
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4 years ago

When exiting the highway, a 1100-kg car is traveling at 22 m/s. The car's kinetic energy decreases by 1.4×105J The exit's speed

Vesna [10]

I think you want to determine the exit speed?

You have to determine how much velocity was decreased by calculating it from the kinetic energy.

KE = (1/2)mv²
1.4 x 10^5 = (1/2)*(1100)v²
v² = 254.55
v =15.95 m/s

So the velocity reduces by 15.95 m/s. Subtracting this to the initial velocity: 22 - 15.95 = 6.05 m/s.

So, the final speed was 6.05 m/s.

I hope I was able to help :)

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