Which is more likely to cause more damage to skin - a burn caused by water at 100°C or a burn caused by steam at 100°C?
A. The burn caused by water.
B. The burn caused by steam.
C. There is no difference.
B. The burn caused by steam.
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You are riding in a spaceship that has no windows or other means for you to observe or measure what is outside. You wish to determine if the ship is stopped or moving at constant velocity. What should you do?
A) You can determine if the ship is moving by determining the apparent velocity of light. B) You can determine if the ship is moving by checking your precision time piece. If its running slow, the ship is moving. C) You can determine if the ship is moving either by determining the apparent velocity of light or by checking your precision time piece. If its running slow, the ship is moving. D) You should give up because you have taken on an impossible task.
One of the main reasons the Hubble Space Telescope was built and launched was to measure how fast the universe is expanding. If the expansion turns out to be faster than we thought, our estimate for the age of the universe will be
A) older (more time between now and the Big Bang). B) younger (less time between now and the Big Bang). C) unaffected.
Cassini's probe Huygens returned images of what may have been a shoreline on Saturn
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
One phenomenon that demonstrates the particle nature of light is:
a. the photoelectric effect. b. diffraction effects. c. interference effects. d. the prediction by Maxwell's electromagnetic theory.