Root Wedging

What will be an ideal response?


When roots break up rocks

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Two kilograms of molten copper at 1083ºC are dropped into water at 40ºC. Determine the freezing time for complete solidification of the copper. Assume lumped heat capacity and that the heat of fusion of copper is 204.7 kJ/kg and the convective heat transfer coefficient have is 120 W/m2?K. Hint: Use Equation 10-66 for freezing instead of melting.

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Weight and g: A satellite encircles Mars at a distance above its surface equal to 3 times the radius of Mars. If gm is the acceleration due to gravity at the surface of Mars, what is the acceleration due to gravity at the location of the satellite?

A. gm/9 B. 0 C. gm D. gm/3 E. gm/16

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The main-sequence turnoff of a star cluster tell us the cluster's

A.) Age. B.) Mass. C.) Distance. D.) Composition. E.) Size.

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The typical mountain valley that has been subjected to glaciation is shaped like

A) a semi-circle. B) the letter "U." C) one half of a square. D) the letter "V."

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