The sinking of a surface as a result of the loss of support from underlying water, soils, or strata
What will be an ideal response?
Subsidence
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A. 17.5 cm B. 20.3 cm C. 27.8 cm D. 30.0 cm E. 35.0 cm
What is the longest wavelength of light that can cause photoelectron emission from a metal that has a work function of 2.20 eV?
A) 417 nm B) 257 nm C) 344 nm D) 564 nm E) 610 nm
On a night when a human eye can see a fourth magnitude star, a 60mm telescope, with 100× the surface area as our pupil, would be able to just barely detect
A) ninth magnitude Barnard's Star. B) eighth magnitude Uranus. C) seventh magnitude Titan, Saturn's largest moon. D) eleventh magnitude Tethys, Saturn's second largest moon. E) thirteenth magnitude Pluto.
In principle, a first-grader could measurably move the Earth if
A. she had a long enough lever. B. she ran her fastest opposite the spin of the Earth. C. she was at the North Pole and had a bicycle wheel spinning opposite the spin of Earth. D. she pushed her hardest on the Earth.