What is the most accurate way to determine the distance to a nearby star?

A) Hubble's law
B) radar ranging
C) stellar parallax
D) Cepheid variables
E) main-sequence fitting


C

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A steel plate has a hole drilled through it. The plate is put into a furnace and heated. What happens to the size of the inside diameter of a hole as its temperature increases?

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A 60.0-Hz AC generator with a peak voltage of 110 V drives a series RL circuit with R = 10.0 ? and L = 10.0 mH. The impedance is

a. 3.77 ?. b. 9.26 ?. c. 10.0 ?. d. 10.7 ?. e. 13.8 ?.

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Machines produce less work than is used to run the machine

What will be an ideal response?

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