In general, good observatory sites are at high altitude, with clear skies and a stable atmosphere. more specifically, different site characteristics are important for different applications. some of the things that matter include: clear sky fraction: how often the atmosphere is non-cloudy median seeing humidity temperature isoplanatic patch size wind speed light pollution considering those characteristics, briefly explain which are likely to be most important for the following observations, and why? a) wide field imaging in visible light b) adaptive optics imaging in the near-infrared ~1 um c) mid-infrared (10um) imaging

A6,600 kg train car moving at +2.0 m/s bumps into and locks together with one of mass 5,400kg moving at -3.0m/s. what is their final velocity? +0.50 m/s -1.0 m/s +2.5 m/s -0.25 m/s

During spring semester at mit, residents of the parallel buildings of the east campus dorms battle one another with large catapults that are made with surgical hose mounted on a window frame. a balloon filled with dyed water is placed in a pouch attached to the hose, which is then stretched through the width of the room. assume that the stretching of the hose obeys hooke's law with a spring constant of 89.0 n/m. if the hose is stretched by 5.80 m and then released, how much work does the force from the hose do on the balloon in the pouch by the time the hose reaches its relaxed length? unitst 3 number-1497 the tolerance is +/-5% open show work click if you would like to show work for this question:

Steam is generated in a boiler of a cogeneration plant at 10 mpa and 450°c at a steady rate of 5 kg/s. in normal operation, steam expands in a turbine to a pressure of 0.5 mpa and is then routed to the process heater, where it supplies the process heat. steam leaves the process heater as a saturated liquid and is pumped to the boiler pressure. in this mode, no steam passes through a condenser, which operates at 20 kpa. (a) determine the power produced in the turbine and the rate at which process heat is supplied in this mode. (b) determine the power produced in the turbine and the rate of process heat supplied if only 60 percent of the steam is routed to the process heater and the remainder is expanded to the condenser pressure. (3.32 mw; 9.69 mw; 4.25 mw; 5.82 mw)