How did you manage to overcome the difficulties that arose?

zvonat [6]

Before Pluto was discovered, it was predicted. Astronomers had observed that massive objects can affect the orbits of its neighbors, and, after seeing deviations in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, assumed something substantial existed beyond their orbits.
When Pluto was spotted, it was thought to be the predicted object and was identified as a ninth planet.
A few decades later, astronomers started discovering more and more objects around other stars and didn’t know whether to call them planets or not. There appeared to be a need to define what a planet means, and that led to what some people consider Pluto’s demotion to a dwarf planet.
The International Astronomical Union decided that full-sized planets must orbit the sun, have a round shape, and have cleared their orbits of other objects. Pluto fulfills the first two criteria, but not the third.
It still goes around the sun, it’s round enough, it’s got moons, and behaves like a planet, but the idea is that Pluto did not form the same way as the rest of the planets. Pluto’s orbit is both eccentric and inclined more than the rest of the planets by about 17 degrees. That’s suggests something is different about this object.
This debate about whether to call it a planet or not is silly, because it doesn’t matter to Pluto what you call it. It is an interesting object, goes around the sun, and shows geology and an atmosphere.
There’s a tendency to define objects based on what they are now, but nothing is constant in the universe. There are some issues with the nomenclature, and a definition today may not apply to the same object tomorrow.

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3 years ago

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Three people pull simultaneously on a stubborn donkey. Jack pulls eastward with a force of 80.5 N, Jill pulls with 81.7 N in the

Gnesinka [82]

Answer:

F = 233.52 N, θ' = 351.41º

Explanation:

In this exercise we must find the net force applied on the donkey.

For this we use Newton's second law, where we create a reference frame with the horizontal x axis

let's decompose the forces

Jack

= 80.5 N

Jill

cos 45 = F_{2x} / F₂2

sin 45 = F_{2y} / F₂2

F_{2x} = F₂ cos 45

F_{2y} = F₂ sin 45

F_{2x} = 81.7 cos 45 = 57.77 N

F_{2y} = 81.7 sin 45 = 57.77 N

Jane

cos (270 + 45) = F_{3x} / F₃3

sin 315 = F_{3y} / F₃

F_{3x} = 131 cos 315 = 92.63 N

F_{3y} = 131 sin 315 = -92.63 N

the force can be found in each axis

X axis

F_{x} = F_{1x} + F_{2x} + F_{3x}

F_{x} = 80.5 +57.77 + 92.63

F_{x} = 230.9 N

Axis y

F_{y} = F_{1y} + F_{2y} + F_{3y}

F_{y} = 0 + 57.77 -92.63

F_{y} = -34.86 N

we can give the result in two ways

a) F = (230.9 i ^ - 34.86 j ^) N

b) in the form of module and angle

we use the Pythagorean theorem

F = √(Fₓ² + F_{y}²

F = √(230.9² + 34.86²)

F = 233.52 N

let's use trigonometry for the angle

tan θ = $\frac{F_y}{F_x} }$

θ = tan⁻¹ (\frac{F_y}{F_x} })

θ = tan⁻¹ (-34.86 / 230.9)

θ = -8.59º

if we measure this angle from the positive side of the x-axis counterclockwise

θ' = 360 -θ

θ‘= 360- 8.59

θ' = 351.41º

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3 years ago

What would happen if you tried to use a prism to disperse a beam that contained only green light？

Margaret [11]

It is determined by the nature of the green light. Because lasers create light at almost a single frequency, green laser light would appear as a thin line of pure green. Other sources of "green" light emit light at a variety of frequencies, including yellow and blue, resulting in a strong green band in the center that fades into blue-green and yellow-green at the borders.

For example, here’s a graph of the spectrum of a green LED, showing the color range: Attachment #1

and here’s a graph of the transmission spectra of several standard photographic filters, including green: Attachment #2

Learn more about the color spectrum:

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