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The machine first receives the high energy electromagnetic wave from the Sun (in this case, its X-ray and UV) and has it colliding with a free electron. Then, the photon transfers some of its energy to the free electron. Therefore, the photo becomes less harmful and since the energy goes into increasing the electron’s kinetic energy which then generates electricity.
This would cause the temperature change to be less extreme because not all of the solution would be
15. Conduction is not responsible for bringing heat to Earth because there are no liquids in space. 16. Radiation brings heat to our planet. 17.
Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to see how long it takes for the 10 spinach leaf discs to undergo photosynthesis and thereby rise in the two solutions. Hypothesis: All of the leaf discs in the sodium bicarbonate solution should be floating before the discs in plain water because the bicarbonate is a carbon source that will allow photosynthesis to continue. Background: Light is absorbed by leaf pigments (chlorophyll) which makes electrons within a photosystem moved to a higher energy level.
The energy that comes from solar radiation, as well as heat transfer, create energy which in turn creates temperature. Chapter 3- Temperature : All The temperatures around the world occur because of many reasons.
The Carrington Event, also known as the Solar Storm of 1859, is the largest geomagnetic solar storm in recorded history, resulting from a coronal mass ejection; a massive surge of magnetized plasma originating from the Sun’s surface on the morning of September 1st, 1859. As the mass of plasma hit the Earth’s magnetosphere mere hours after the event had occurred on the Sun’s surface, southern aurorae were seen as far north as Queensland, Australia, and the aurora borealis was powerful enough that residents of the north-eastern US could read a newspaper by the aurora’s light. The solar storm ravaged the primitive telegraph communication system used in 1859, and caused damage to electrical grids worldwide. CAUSES The Carrington Event was caused by a massive burst of electromagnetic radiation, magnetized gas and plasma released into the solar wind by the Sun’s corona in a phenomenon called a coronal mass ejection (CME).
“The Space Between Stars” was written by Geeta Kothari. The short story is about an Indian Girl named Maya who immigrated to America at a young age. The story shows what she went threw growing up as a female immigrant and all the situations he had to overcome. Through out the story I learned that there are women who struggle to show how they feel and how brave and compassionate a woman can be. I already had a great appreciation for women because my mother raise me on her own for the first two years of my life.
1. The entire story is based on the fact that Fortunato has wronged Montresor many times, and Montresor dealt with them until Fortunato “ventured upon insult,” which caused Montresor to “vow revenge.” Though it seems the “insult” must be so terrible that Montresor is willing to murder him for it, the reader can not be entirely sure that the killing is justified since Montresor is not of sound mind. Because Montresor is the narrator, and unreliable at that, the reader is forced to learn about the events through a perspective tainted by emotions and bias. For example, the person telling the tale may embellish or downplay events in the story in order to look like the “good guy” without completely lying.
How do hot spots support plumes? Mantle plumes produce hot spots with heat. Gillian R. Foulger (2010), a professor of Geophysics at Durham University, said that the term ‘hot spot’ carries with it the presumptions that the volcanism in question is fed by an unusually hot, highly localized source. Some plumes rise beneath the centers of oceanic plates said Charles, Diane, and Lisa (2010). The mantle plumes start from the mantle which is above the core making the plume rise forming a tail and a head rising to where the lithosphere is located, the head of the plume when it touches the lithosphere forms a volcanic activity that is what we call a hot spot.
In major league baseball the late 80’s through early 2000’s can be described as the “Steroid Era”, in which many athletes were caught using performance-enhancing drugs that resulted in higher offensive performance, especially the number of home runs per season. As professional baseball is getting more and more competitive many athletes look to unethical ways to gain physical advantages over other players by taking steroids. For instance, Mark Mcgwire admitted to using steroids and had a phenomenal increase in offensive statistics in 1998 compared to other seasons. In his season of 1998 he broke the baseball single season home run record of 70 home runs, which was far more home runs he had hit compared to previous seasons when he wasn’t
Nuclear Energy Nuclear energy results from mass-to-energy conversions that occur in the separation of atoms larger than Iron or combining atoms smaller than Iron. The slight amount of mass that is lost from either the separation or combination follows the Einstein’s mass energy relation E= mc2 where m is defined as the mass and c is the speed of light. How is Nuclear Energy Created? Nuclear energy is created either from the Fusion or Fission of atoms.
This measurement is accurate to Dr. Wile’s description of the outcome. He said, “Metals have small specific heats, so it [the answer] should be less than 1 J/g˚C.” Calorimetry is the science of determining the changes in energy of a system by measuring the heat exchanged with the surroundings. Calorimetry experiments are performed in order to determine the heat flow between two substances and a calorimeter is used. A calorimeter is a device that is used to measure the amount of heat transferred to or from an object. The science of calorimetry is that the energy gained or lost by the water is equal to the energy lost or gained by the object.
Suzan Lori Parks’ play, Venus Hottentot, depicts a life of a native African woman named Saartjie Bartman, who travelled to Europe by deception, and was exploited first as an ugly creature for a show and then as an object of study for anatomists. Saartjie Baartman was born in 1789 in Eastern Cape of South Africa, and worked on a Dutch colonial farm. As a teenager, Saartjie attracted the attention of a ship’s doctor, William Dunlop, who is represented in the play as The Man. William Dunlop expecting to make fortune on Saartjie’s unusual for Europeans body deceived Saartjie and took her to England, where she was exhibited in a freak show. Then, in 1814 Saartjie was sold to George Cuvier, Napoleon’s surgeon, who I represented in the play as The
Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. It is the energy which is abundant in nature. The sun is the ultimate source of energy. Almost all the energy that we use eventually comes from the Sun. The exception is the heat of radioactivity deep inside the Earth, which is ultimately responsible for processes taking place inside the Earth.
