Based on everything you have learned about the formation of our solar system, which of the following statements is probably not true?
A) Only a tiny percentage of stars are surrounded by spinning disks of gas during their formation.
B) Planets always tend to orbit their star in the same direction and approximately the same plane.
C) Other solar systems will also have planets in the two basic categories of terrestrial and jovian.
D) Other planetary systems will have far more numerous asteroids and comets than actual planets.
A
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A. It is doubled. B. It stays the same. C. It is tripled. D. It is quadrupled. E. It is reduced by a factor of two.
A rock is thrown straight up with an initial velocity of 25.0 m/s. What maximum height will the rock reach before starting to fall downward? (Take acceleration due to gravity as 9.80 m/s2.)
a. 39.9 m b. 15.9 m c. 63.8 m d. 31.9 m e. 47.8 m
An organ pipe closed at one end has a length of 60 centimeters. What is the wavelength of the second harmonic?
A. 20 cm B. 60 cm C. 80 cm D. 100 cm
An excited atom can lose energy by emitting a __________
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