Natural processes tend to increase the __________ of thermodynamic systems
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
entropy
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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A. Venus B. Mars C. the Moon D. Mercury
How does the theory of inflation explain the near-uniformity of the cosmic microwave background?
A) Prior to rapid inflation, all regions of space were close enough to bounce radiation back-and-forth and reach the same temperature. B) Matter expanded into regions of space that had no matter, and thus ended up at the same temperature. C) The expanding universe would have cooled. D) Matter was near the critical-density for a universal collapse, which smoothed out the differences in temperatures.
A cannon of mass 1 300 kg fires a 13.6-kg shell with a velocity of 180 m/s at an angle of 45° above the horizontal. Find the recoil velocity of the cannon across the level ground
a. 1.88 m/s b. 1.33 m/s c. 0.376 m/s d. 0.666 m/s e. 0.942 m/s