How can the light reflected off a planet reveal information about its atmosphere, even though the planet is not creating this light?
What will be an ideal response?
The light has to pass through the cool, thin gases in the planet's atmosphere, so that additional absorption lines will be added to the reflected light that were not present in the solar spectrum that reached the planet.
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a. the result of a neutrino oscillation b. a hypothetical particle left over from the Big Bang c. a hypothetical particle in the MOND theory d. none of the above
A steel wire in a piano has a length of 0.700 m and a mass of 4.30 grams. To what tension must this wire be stretched to make the fundamental frequency correspond to middle C, (fc = 261.6 Hz)?
When a warm air mass moves into a region occupied by a cold air mass, the contact zone is called
A) a cold front. B) a warm front. C) a stationary front. D) an occluded front.
Capacitors in Combination: Three capacitors of equal capacitance are arranged as shown in the figure, with a voltage source across the combination. If the voltage drop across C1 is 10.0 V, what is the voltage drop across C3?
A. 20 V B. 10.0 V C. 40 V D. 30 V