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2 years ago

Why do meteors in a meteor shower appear to come from just one point in the sky?

Physics

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kolbaska11 [484]2 years ago

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Answer:

All the meteors in a meteor shower typically come from the same comet, which is in a periodic orbit around the Sun. The dust from the comet follows the path of the parent body and as Earth intersects the debris along the comet's orbit, it plows into this material. Since the dust particles are all moving together in space before they encounter Earth, if you trace back the streak of each meteor, its path will appear to diverge from one place in the sky.

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Answer:

a.3.20m

b.0.45cm

Explanation:

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Given $m=3$ , $\lambda=6.33\times 10^-^7$ and $\alpha=0.00015$ :

#Substitute our variable values in the minima equation to obtain $\theta$ :

$\theta=sin^-^1 (\frac{3\times 6.33\times 10^-^7}{0.00015})\\\\\theta=0.01266rad$

#draw a triangle to find the relationship between $\theta, y \$ and $L$ .

$tan(\theta)=y/L$ #where $y=4.05cm$

$L=y/tan(\theta)=3.20$

Hence the screen is 3.20m from the split.

b. To find the closest minima for green(the fourth min will give you the smallest distance)

#Like with a above, the minima equation will be defined as:

$sin \theta=\frac{m\lambda}{\alpha}$ , where $m=4$ given that it's the minima with the smallest distance.

$sin \theta=\frac{4\lambda}{\alpha}\\\theta=sin^-^1 (\frac{4\times 6.33\times 10^-^7}{0.00015})\\\\\theta=0.01688rad$

#we then use $tan(\theta)=y/L$ to calculate $L$ =4.5cm

Then from the equation subtract $y_3$ from $y$ :

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2 years ago

A composite wall separates combustion gases at 2400°C from a liquid coolant at 100°C, with gas and liquid-side convection coeffi

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Answer:

$\text{heat loss} = 24864.05 \ W/m^2$

Explanation:

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$t_1$ and $t_2$ are thicknesses of gas layer and steel slab in meters,
$h_1$ , $h_2$ are convection coefficients gas and liquid in $W/m^2 \cdot K$ ,
$R_c$ is the contact resistance in $m^2 \cdot K/W$ ,

and $k_1, k_2$ are thermal conductivities of gas and steel in $W/m \cdot K$ ,

then: part(a):

$\text{heat loss } = \frac{T_1 - T_2} { \frac{1}{h_1} + \frac{t_1}{t_2} + R_c + \frac{t_2}{k_2} + \frac{1}{h_2}}$

using known values:

$\text {heat loss} = 2486.05 W/m^2$

part(b): Using the rate equation :

$\text {heat loss} = h_1 (T_1 - T_{s1})$

the surface temperature $T_{s1} = 1678.438 \ K$

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Similarly

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Richard needs to fly from san diego to halifax, nova scotia and back in order to give an important talk about mathematics. on th

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When plane is going towards Halifax the speed of wind is in the direction of fly

so overall the net speed of the plane will increase

while when he is on the way back the air is opposite to flight so net speed will decrease

now the total time of the journey is 13 hours

out of this 2 hours he spent in mathematics talk

so total time of the fly is 13 - 2 = 11 hours

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$t_1 = \frac{d}{v + 50}$

time taken to reach back

$t_2 = \frac{d}{v - 50}$

now we have total time

$T = t_1 + t_2$

$11 = \frac{d}{v - 50} + \frac{d}{v + 50}$

here d= 3000 miles

$11 = \frac{3000}{v - 50} + \frac{3000}{v + 50}$

$3.67 * 10^{-3} = \frac{2v}{v^2 - 2500}$

$v^2 - 2500 = 545.45v$

solving above quadratic equation we will have

$v = 550 mph$

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