Explain the meaning of temperature


Temperature is a measure of how hot or cold an object is, or more specifically,
temperature is proportional to the average kinetic energy of the molecules that make
up the object.

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A: It is hard to find stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, so it would have been too difficult to select a region that had many. B: Stars are only visible in radio waves, and the Hubble Deep Field image was taken in the optical region of the spectrum. C: Stars are only visible in the optical region of the spectrum, and the Hubble Deep Field image was taken with a radio telescope. D: It was chosen so that bright stars in the Milky Way Galaxy do not interfere with our picture of the distant universe. E: The scientists were interested seeing the light of galaxies through a region of space filled with black holes.

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X-rays of wavelength 0.080 nm are used in a Bragg scattering experiment with a crystal. If the first order maximum is found at a grazing angle of what is the plane spacing in the crystal?

A. 0.31 nm B. 0.71 nm C. 1.4 nm D. 0.38 nm E. 0.77 nm

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The fundamental force that is the principal cause of what we experience as frictional forces is:

A. gravitational force B. electromagnetic force C. weak force D. strong force

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Near the earth the intensity of radiation from the sun is 1.35 kW/m2. What volume of space in this region contains 1.0 J of electromagnetic energy? (c = 3.0 × 108 m/s, ?0 = 4? × 10-7 T • m/A, ?0 = 8.85 × 10-12 C2/N • m2)

A) 4.5 × 10-6 m3 B) 3300 m3 C) 7.4 × 10-4 m3 D) 1400 m3 E) 220,000 m3

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