A). Earth completes one rotation on its rotation axis
every (3 minutes and 56 seconds less than 24 hours).
This causes night and day. It's rotation, not precession.
B). Earth completes one orbital revolution around the sun
every (365 plus a little bit) days. It's revolution, not precession.
C). I'm not sure what happens on a cycle of 512 years.
It may have something to do with the moon. But whatever
it is, it's not precession.
D). When you spin a top and it starts to run down, the first
thing that happens is that the handle of the top, or the point
on top of the top, starts moving in a circle. That's precession.
That's what the Earth's axis is doing. The north pole points
toward the north star (Polaris) now. But the north pole is
actually drawing out a big circle in the sky, and other stars
will become the "north star" far in the future.
The north pole draws out a full circle in the sky, roughly
once every 26,000 years. That's precession.
Answer: The reason a light bulb glows is that electricity is forced through tungsten, which is a resistor. The energy is released as light and heat. A conductor is the opposite of a resistor. Electricity travels easily and efficiently through a conductor, with almost no other energy released as it passes.
Explanation:
Answer:
fly off, tangent to its circular path.
Explanation:
Answer:
b) the refracted ray has an angle of 90 degrees
Explanation:
The angle of incidence is measured with respect to the normal separation of the media. The critical angle for total internal reflection occurs is:
Here 
and 
are the refractive index of the mediums. This equation is an application of Snell's law, for the case where the refracted ray has an angle of 
.
Answer:
Wind the long piece of thin wire around the uniform glass rod multiple times, find the length of the total diameters using the metre ruler, and divide by the number of times you wound it around the rod.
Explanation:
Since the diameter of one long piece of thin wire is too thin to be measured by a metre ruler, you can wind it multiple times and push it side by side to get a length you can measure.
For example, if you wound it around 20 times and the total length of 20 diameters of the wire side-by-side is 2.0 cm, one winding, which is the diameter would be 2.0cm ÷ 20 = 0.10cm or 1mm.
