n assembling a train from several railroad cars, two of the cars, with masses 2.0 x 104 kg and 4.0x 104 kg are rolled toward each other. When they meet, they couple and stick together. The lighter car has an initial speed of 1.5 m/s; the collision causes it to reverse direction at 0.25 m/s. What was the initial speed of the heavier car (ANS -1.1

Scientists use laser range-finding to measure the distance to the moon with great accuracy. a brief laser pulse is fired at the moon, then the time interval is measured until the "echo" is seen by a telescope. a laser beam spreads out as it travels because it diffracts through a circular exit as it leaves the laser. in order for the reflected light to be bright enough to detect, the laser spot on the moon must be no more than 1.0 km in diameter. staying within this diameter is accomplished by using a special large-diameter laser. part a if λ = 540nm , what is the minimum diameter of the circular opening from which the laser beam emerges? the earth-moon distance is 384,000 km. express your answer to two significant figures and include the appropriate units.

Asun-sized star will spend most of its lifetime as a: white dwarf red giant protostar main-sequence star

What are atoms of the same element with varying number of neutrons