Compared to our Sun, a typical white dwarf has

A) about the same mass and density.
B) about the same mass and a million times higher density.
C) a larger mass and a 100 times lower density.
D) a smaller mass and half the density.
E) a smaller mass and twice the density.


B

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A stone is thrown at an angle of 30° above the horizontal from the top edge of a cliff with an initial speed of 8.0 m/s. A stop watch measures the stone's trajectory time from top of cliff to bottom to be 5.9 s. How far out from the cliff's edge does the stone travel horizontally? (g = 9.8 m/s2 and air resistance is negligible)

a. 41 m b. 27 m c. 300 m d. 130 m

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Asteroids ________.

A. are about the same size as planets, but have not pulled themselves into a spherical shape B. are small bodies, typically the size of a grain of sand or a boulder C. are larger objects, a few hundred kilometers in size, but not quite large enough to be classified as a planet D. can range in size from a few meters to many hundreds of kilometers

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How much energy is radiated each second by one square meter of a star whose temperature is 10,000 K? Note: ? in the Stefan-Boltzmann law is equal to

.

a.
5.67 × 1012 J

b.
5.67 × 108 J

c.
5.67 × 104 J

d.
300 nm

e.
300,000,000 nm

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