The imaginary line encircling Earth at its surface, halfway between the north and south geographic poles, is called the
a. meridian.
b. equator.
c. International Date Line.
d. longitude.
e. latitude.
b
You might also like to view...
Diverging lenses have negative focal lengths
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
From the edge of a roof top you toss a green ball upwards with initial velocity v0 and a blue ball downwards with the same initial velocity. When they reach the ground below,
A) the green ball will be moving faster than the blue ball. B) the blue ball will be moving faster than the green ball. C) the two balls will have the same speed.
What does the phenomenon of diffraction demonstrate?
A) the wave nature of light B) the polarization of light waves C) the quantization of atomic orbitals D) the particle nature of the photon E) the process of ionization
Photon Energy: The human eye can just detect green light of wavelength 500 nm if it arrives at the retina at the rate of 2 × 10-18 W. How many photons arrive each second? (c = 3.0 × 108 m/s, h = 6.626 × 10-34 J ? s)
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).