What is a shooting star?

A

comets streaking through the sky

B.

stars falling on Earth

C.

meteoroids falling on Earth

D. asteroids revolving around the Sun

When students work in a chemistry lab, the location of which items would be the most important for each student to know?

Which of the following changes would produce the greatest change in total peripheral resistance?

A cargo elevator on Earth (where g = 10 m/s2) lifts 3000 kg upwards by 20 m. 720 kJ of electrical energy is used up in the process. What is the efficiency of this process?

Kate is working on a project in her tech education class. She plans to assemble a fan motor. Which form of energy does the motor convert most of its electric energy into?

a custodian pulls a vacuum 13.5 m with a 33.9 N force at a 55.0 degree angle, against a 14.2 N friction force. find the work done by the friction force

When distances were carefully measured from Earth to globular clusters above and below the Milky Way plane (where our view of them is not obscured by interstellar dust and gas), their distribution was found to be

Imagine you transfer heat into a gas. This heat splits up in two different ways: Additional thermal energy making the gas hotter and "fuel" for the gas to do work. Let's suppose, 64% of the transferred heat transforms into thermal energy.

How much heat is absorbed by a 61g iron skillet when its temperature rises from 5oC to 29oC?

Explain the relationship between motion and frame of reference.

Two students are looking at a brightly lit full Moon, illuminated by the reflected light from the Sun. Consider thefollowing discussion between the two students about what the spectrum of moonlight would look like.