A planet's sidereal orbital period can be measured from repeated observations of its location in the sky (so long as Earth's own motion around the Sun is properly taken into account)
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Vision Problems: A myopic (nearsighted) child wears contact lenses that allow her to have clear distant vision. The power of the lenses of her eyeglasses is -3.00 diopters. Without the corrective lenses, what is the far point of the girl?
A. 0.33 m B. 0.25 m C. 0.17 m D. 0.42 m E. 0.50 m
The orbital angular momentum quantum number ? can have any integer value ranging from
A) 0 to n. B) 0 to (n-1). C) 1 to n. D) 1 to (n+1). E) -n to n.
A monster turnip (assumed spherical) weighing in at 0.45 kg is dropped into a cauldron of water boiling at atmospheric pressure. If the initial temperature of the turnip is 17°C, how long does it take to reach 92°C at the center? Assume that
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Time needed to reach 92°C at the center
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A fisherman casts his bait toward the river at an angle of 25° above the horizontal
As the line unravels, he notices that the bait and hook reach a maximum height of What was the initial velocity he launched the bait with? Assume that the line exerts no appreciable drag force on the bait and hook and that air resistance is negligible. A) 18 m/s B) 7.9 m/s C) 7.6 m/s D) 6.3 m/s