If Earth rotated more slowly about its axis, your weight would
A) increase.
B) decrease.
C) stay the same.
D) be zero.
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
How are Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars different?
What will be an ideal response?
If we compress 4.5 billion years into a calendar year, humans make their mark on the calendar
A) the very last minute of New Years Eve. B) on December 25th. C) at 12:00 pm, December 30th. D) at 11:50 pm, December 31st.
According to Kepler's third law, the square of the planet's period in years is
A) equal to its perihelion distance from the Sun in AU. B) inversely proportional to its mass in kilograms. C) equal to the fourth power of its average temperature in degrees Kelvin. D) proportional to the cube of its semimajor axis in AU. E) equal to the square of its aphelion distance in AU.
The supernova event for a massive star that has lost a large amount of mass to a close binary companion ____
a. does not show hydrogen emission lines in the spectrum of the remnant b. does not produce iron in the core before the explosion c. is less luminous because the companion star absorbs most of the remnant material d. is more likely to produce a neutron star than an isolated supernova e. triggers a supernova in the binary companion