Tectonic plates on Earth are moving rapidly geologically at some number of meters per year

What will be an ideal response?


Actually, the plates move centimeters per year.

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According to the impulse-momentum relationship Ft = change in mv, a falling bungee jumper has momentum which is reduced by the force F exerted by the bungee cord. If v is the speed of the jumper, then m in the equation is the mass of the

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A beam of light with a frequency range of 3.01 × 1014 Hz - 6.10 × 1014 Hz is incident on a metal surface. If the work function of the metal surface is 2.20 eV, what is the maximum kinetic energy of photoelectrons ejected from this surface?

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