Afriend of yours who has not taken astronomy sees a meteor shower (she calls it a bunch of shooting stars). the next day she confides in you that she was concerned that the stars in the big dipper (her favorite star pattern) might be the next ones to go. how would you put her mind at ease?

The two stars in a certain binary star system move in circular orbits. the first star, alpha, has an orbital speed of 36 km/s. the second star, beta, has an orbital speed of 12 km/s. the orbital period is 137 d. a) what is the mass of the star alpha? b) what is the mass of the star beta?

Which of the following best describes internal energy? a. the difference between the kinetic and potential energies of the particles in a system b. the sum of the kinetic and potential energies of the particles in a system c. the sum of the kinetic and thermal energies of the particles in a system d. the difference between the kinetic and thermal energies of the particles in a system

It may seem strange that the selected velocity does not depend on either the mass or the charge of the particle. (for example, would the velocity of a neutral particle be selected by passage through this device? ) the explanation of this is that the mass and the charge control the resolution of the device--particles with the wrong velocity will be accelerated away from the straight line and will not pass through the exit slit. if the acceleration depends strongly on the velocity, then particles with just slightly wrong velocities will feel a substantial transverse acceleration and will not exit the selector. because the acc