Mistakes were made" is a classic passive voice confession. President Ronald Reagan famously said "mistakes were made" by his administration during the Iran Contra scandal. But some people said he wasn't directly taking the blame. This is why some writers choose to use the passive voice. It can sidestep the question of who did something. Based on this passage, a writer may use the passive voice to

A
give the reader all known information about a criminal and his or her crimes.

B
clarify the person who was responsible for a crime.

C
describe a crime without blaming anyone for committing it.

D
take responsibility for committing a crime.

In a thunderstorm, charge builds up on the water droplets or ice crystals in a cloud. thus, the charge can be considered to be distributed uniformly throughout the cloud. for the purposes of this problem, take the cloud to be a sphere of diameter 1.00 kilometer. the point of this problem is to estimate the maximum amount of charge that this cloud can contain, assuming that the charge builds up until the electric field at the surface of the cloud reaches the value at which the surrounding air breaks down. this breakdown means that the air becomes highly ionized, enabling it to conduct the charge from the cloud to the ground or another nearby cloud. the ionized air will then emit light due to the recombination of the electrons and atoms to form excited molecules that radiate light. in addition, the large current will heat up the air, resulting in its rapid expansion. these two phenomena account for the appearance of lightning and the sound of thunder. take the breakdown electric field of air to be eb=3.00ă—106n/c. part a estimate the total charge q on the cloud when the breakdown of the surrounding air is reached. express your answer numerically, to three significant figures, using ďµ0=8.85ă—10â’12c2/(nâ‹…m2) .

Calculate the capacitance of a system that stores 2.0 x 10^-10c of charge at 100.0 v. use c=q/v. a. 2.0 x 10^-12 f b. 2.0 x 10^-8 f c. 5.0 x 10^11 f d. 5.0 x 10^7 f

Researchers determine that the biodiversity in a woodland region is declining. they identify two major threats to the region's biodiversity, a method to address each threat, and the expected outcome of each method. this information is shown in the table. a) reforestation would not benefit many species because most forest species live on the ground. b) reforestation would take the longest time to be effective because trees take several years to grow. c) biological augmentation would benefit only a few species because is is typically not very effective. d) biological augmentation would take less time to ve effective because it targets the majority of prey species.