Which of the following objects is obeying Newton's laws of motion?

A. a satellite orbiting Earth
B. a runner racing around a track
C. a skydiver falling under the force of gravity
D. a sleeping cat
E. All of these choices are correct.


Answer: E

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a. quasars. b. radio galaxies. c. the 3-Kelvin radiation. d. quasars and radio galaxies.

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Assume that the water is originally at the freezing temperature Tf, that the cooling medium inside the tube surface is just below the freezing temperature at a uniform temperature Ts, and that ho is the total heat transfer coefficient between the cooling medium and the pipe-ice interface. Also show the thermal circuit.

Show that the dimensionless equation for ice formation at the outside of a tube of radius ro is

where

GIVEN
? Water freezing on the outside of a tube
? Tube radius = ro
? Cooling medium temperature = T ? (uniform)
? Heat transfer coefficient between the cooling medium and the pipe-ice interface = ho
FIND
? Draw the thermal circuit and show that the dimensionless equation for ice formation is as shown
above
ASSUMPTIONS
? Steady state
? The thermal capacitance of the ice layer is negligible
? T? is constant
? The water is at the freezing temperature, Tf
? The properties of the ice are uniform
SKETCH

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Observer A sees a pendulum oscillating back and forth in a relativistic train and measures its period to be TA. Observer B moves together with the train and measures the period of the pendulum to be TB. These two results will be such that

A) TA > TB. B) TA = TB. C) TA < TB. D) TA could be greater or smaller than TB depending on the direction of the motion.

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Fifteen microseconds is

a. 0.0000015 s. b. 0.000015 s. c. 0.00015 s. d. 0.015 s. e. 15000000 s.

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