Answer:
opposite the sun. between the Earth and the sun. rising perpendicular to the sun.
Explanation:
Because it's the planet in our solar system with the shortest,
fastest orbit around the sun ... only 88 Earth days.
The people who named it didn't know that ... they still thought that
the sun and all the planets revolve around the Earth. But they did
see it zip from one side of the sun to the other, faster than any other
planet ... the result of having the shortest, fastest orbit of any planet.
Inertia- a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged
The intensity of the light has no connection with the photoelectric effect.
That's what was so baffling about it before the particle nature of light
was suspected ... a match with a blue flame might stimulate the
photoelectric effect, but a high-power red searchlight couldn't do it.