What is a brown dwarf?

What will be an ideal response?


A protostar of insufficient mass (less than 8% of the Sun's mass) that does not get hot enough from gravitational contraction to reach 10 million degrees and reach stage 7 as a stable main sequence star.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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In all living things on Earth, the chemical reactions making, breaking, and combining carbon chains take place in _______________ within the cell of living organisms

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Consider a vertical 20-cm-tall flat plate at 120°C suspended in a fluid at 100°C. If the fluid is being forced past the plate from above, estimate the fluid velocity for which natural convection becomes negligible (less than 10%) in: (a) mercury (b) air (c) water.

GIVEN
? A vertical flat plate suspended in a fluid
? Plate temperature (Ts) = 120°C
? Fluid temperature (T?) = 100°C
? Fluid is being forced past the plate from above
? Plate height (H) = 20 cm = 0.2 m
FIND
? The fluid velocity (U?) for which natural convection has a less than 10% effect in
(a) mercury (b) air (c) water
ASSUMPTIONS
? Steady state
SKETCH

PROPERTIES AND CONSTANTS
From Appendix 2, Tables 26, 28 and 13

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Emission lines of hydrogen that are found in the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum are formed by electrons transitioning from:

A) any level to level 2. B) level 2 to any level. C) any level to level 1. D) level 1 to any level. E) any level to level 3.

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