What information about an astronomical object can be determined by observing its spectrum?

A friend on skis stands still on level ground, with dry 0.00°C with a coefficient of static friction of 0.0300. How hard would you have to push your friend in the forward horizontal direction to move him if your friend weighs 685 N?

Big Al stands on a skateboard at a rest and throws a 0.5-kilogram rock at a velocity of 10.0 m / sec. Big Al moves back at 0.05 m/sec. What is the combined mass of Big Al and the skateboard?

The cheetah can maintain its maximum speed for only 7.5 s. What is the minimum distance the gazelle must be ahead of the cheetah to have a chance of escape? (After 7.5 s the speed of cheetah is less than that of the gazelle.) Answer in units of m.

Metamorphic rocks are formed from: deposition cooling magma eroded land heat and pressure

A wagon is rolling forward on level ground. Friction is negligible. The person sitting in the wagon is holding a rock. The total mass of the wagon, rider, and rock is 93.1 kg. The mass of the rock is 0.292 kg.

A wire carries a steady current of 2.20 A. A straight section of the wire is 0.750 m long and lies along the y axis within a uniform magnetic field, vector B = 1.70 k T.

A 5.00-kg howler monkey is swinging due east on a vine. It overtakes and grabs onto a 6.00-kg monkey also moving east on a second vine. The first monkey is moving at 10.0 m/s at the instant it grabs the second, which is moving at 7.00 m/s.

One of the heating systems we talked about in this course comprises of a system of ducts. What is the process by which heat is transferred in this system? a. Conduction b. Convection c. Radiation d. None of the above

If the north pole of a magnet in a compass is attracted to Earth's geographic north, what must be the polarity of Earth's magnetic north pole? A. north B. south C. It can't be determined from the information given.

A canoe started its trip at 8 am. If the cannoe travelled at a speed of 70 mph how far did it travel by 1:36 pm?