A 100-kg person sits on a 5-kg bicycle. The total weight is borne equally by the two wheels of the bicycle. The tires are 2.0 cm wide and are inflated to a gauge pressure of 8.0 × 105 Pa. What length of each tire is in contact with the ground?
A) 1.6 cm
B) 1.8 cm
C) 3.2 cm
D) 2.4 cm
E) 6.4 cm
C
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A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars. B) Mercury, Moon, Venus, Earth, Mars. C) Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. D) Moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth. E) Mercury, Moon, Mars, Earth, Venus.
As a 4-10 solar mass star leaves the main sequence on its way to becoming a red supergiant, its luminosity:
A) decreases. B) first decreases, then increases. C) increases. D) remains roughly constant. E) first increases, then decreases.
Any object moving relative to Earth will have a Doppler shift when viewed from Earth
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A light ray reflects from a surface. If the angle of incidence is 
what is the angle between the reflected ray and the incident ray at the surface?
a. 
b. 
c. 
d. 
e. 