A pair of toy freight cars, one twice the mass of the other, fly apart when a compressed spring that joins them is released. The spring exerts the greater force on the
A) heavier car.
B) lighter car.
C) same on each.
Answer: C
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A) large planets in edge-on orbits around small stars B) large planets in face-on orbits around small stars C) small planets in edge-on orbits around big stars D) small planets in face-on orbits around big stars E) Earth-like planets in any orbit
Which of the following observations would not be likely to provide information about the final, explosive stages of a star's life?
A) decades of continuous monitoring of red giants in a globular cluster B) studying the light rings around Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud C) observing the structures of planetary nebulae D) neutrino detections from nearby supernovae
The longest diameter of the Milky Way is about how many light-years?
a. 10 b. 10,000 c. 100 d. 100,000
A pitcher claims he can throw a baseball with as much momentum as a 3.00-g bullet moving with a speed of 1500 m/s. A baseball has a mass of 0.145 kg. What must be its speed if the pitcher's claim is valid?
What will be an ideal response?