Are comets common? Explain why or why not
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Yes. Faint comets are common; several dozen are discovered each year. Truly bright comets appear about once per decade. An average person might see five or ten bright comets in a lifetime. Astronomers do not know exactly how many, but there could be one hundred billion in the Oort cloud.
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A cylindrical tank is assembled by welding steel sections circumferentially. Tank diameter is 1.5 m, thick- ness is 20 mm, and internal pressure is 2.0 MPa. The maximum shear stress in the heads is approximately:
(A) 19 MPa
(B) 23 MPa
(C) 33 MPa
(D) 35 MPa
Consider a 1000. Gauss magnetic field along the z axis and a proton moving with an instantaneous velocity of = 3 + 4 km/s (note its speed is 5. km/s composed of 3. km/s along the x axis and 4. km/s along the z axis)
Determine the radius of its spiraling orbit. [proton: 1.67 × 10-27 kg and 1.6 × 10-19 Coulomb]
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