Except Venus and Uranus, all the other planets:
A) rotate in the counterclockwise direction as seen from the north.
B) revolve around their moons with their equators almost perpendicular to their orbits as seen from the north.
C) revolve around the Sun in the clockwise direction as seen from the north.
D) rotate on their sides with their equators almost perpendicular to their orbits as seen from the north.
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A fireman is sliding down a fire pole. As he speeds up, he tightens his grip on the pole, thus increasing the vertical frictional force that the pole exerts on the fireman
When the force exerted on his hands equals the force that Earth exerts on him, what happens to the fireman? A) The fireman comes to a stop. B) The fireman descends with slower and slower speed. C) The fireman descends with a smaller but non-zero acceleration. D) The fireman continues to descend, but with constant speed. E) The acceleration of the fireman is now upward.
The mass of an electron and its antiparticle, a positron, is 0.511 MeV/c2 . In order to produce an electron-positron pair, a gamma ray must have an energy larger than 1.022 MeV because __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The proton-proton chain needs high temperature because
a. of the ground state energy of the hydrogen atom. b. of the presence of helium atoms. c. the protons must overcome the Coulomb barrier. d. of the need for low density. e. the neutrinos carry more energy away than the reaction produces.
A common naturally-polarized bit of matter is
A) an electron. B) a hydrogen atom C) a water molecule. D) all of the above E) none of the above