When you document the time and place of a meteorite as it streams through the atmosphere, it is considered a(n) ____
a. fall
b. find
c. meteoroid
d. chondrite
e. impactor
a
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A) a tightrope walker crossing Niagara Falls B) a pickup truck speeding along a highway C) a Mack truck parked in a parking lot D) the Science building on campus E) a mouse running across your room
A sack of potatoes weighing 200 N falls from an airplane. As the velocity of fall increases, air resistance also increases. When air resistance equals 200 N, the sack's acceleration is
A) 0 m/s2. B) 5 m/s2. C) 10 m/s2. D) infinite. E) none of the above
The spacecraft called Curiosity is
A) a rover on Mars. B) an orbiter studying Jupiter. C) a robotic lander on Venus. D) currently orbiting Saturn.
A particle carrying a charge of +e travels in a circular path of radius R in a uniform magnetic field. If instead the particle carried a charge of +2e, the radius of the circular path would have been
A) 4R. B) 2R. C) R/4. D) R/2. E) 8R.