From a particular location on Earth why can we see many more total eclipses of the Moon than total eclipses of the Sun?
A. The Moon is always in the same place in our sky while the Sun moves around the sky.
B. The Moon is much bigger in the sky than the Sun.
C. The line-up of the Earth Moon and Sun needed for a lunar eclipse happens many many times more often than what is needed for a solar eclipse.
D. A total lunar eclipse is visible over a much larger part of the Earth's surface than a total solar eclipse.
A total lunar eclipse is visible over a much larger part of the Earth's surface than a total solar eclipse.
You might also like to view...
Carnot Engine: An ideal Carnot engine operating between a warm reservoir of unknown temperature and a cold reservoir at 1.76 K has an efficiency of 40.0%. What is the temperature of the warm reservoir?
A. 2.93 K B. 0.0500 K C. 106 K D. 0.0400 K
Refer to the figure above. What can you conclude from the data shown on this graph alone?
A) The carbon dioxide concentration varies naturally, but is much higher today than it has been in the past 800,000 years. B) Human activity has caused the carbon dioxide concentration to rise and fall many times in the past 800,000 years. C) Changes in the carbon dioxide concentration are the causes of ice ages. D) If current trends continue, carbon dioxide will soon be the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere.
A circular loop of one turn and radius 5.0 cm is positioned with its axis parallel to a magnetic field of 0.60 T. By means of high explosives, the area of the loop is suddenly reduced to essentially zero in 0.50 ms. What emf is induced in the loop?
What will be an ideal response?
If a particle with a charge of 2 coulombs moves through a potential difference of 12 volts, its change in kinetic energy will a have magnitude of
A) 12 J. B) 6 J. C) 8 J. D) 1/6 J. E) 24 J.