How can a fully dressed person at rest in the middle of a pond on perfectly frictionless ice get to shore? Now if you’re fully dressed on a frictionless pond at rest and you want to go to shore you have to make a sacrifice. Take off your clothes and throw them in the direction […]
What does a black triangle mean?
What does a black triangle mean? The Black Triangle. Just as gay men were forced to wear pink triangles in the concentration camps, many lesbians were forced to wear black triangles, which signified that they (like prostitutes and unmarried women of the streets) did not live according to the Nazis’ ideas of correct female behavior. […]
Is April too late for frog spawn?
Are peppered moths still black?
Are peppered moths still black? By 1970, in some polluted regions nearly 99 percent of peppered moths were now black. Still, scientists were puzzled as to how the black moths first came into being. Until now, that is. Researchers in England have traced the difference between a typica and carbonaria moth to a genetic tweak. […]
What type of parenting is most effective?
What type of parenting is most effective? Authoritative parents have been found to have the most effective parenting style in all sorts of ways: academic, social emotional, and behavioral. Like authoritarian parents, the authoritative parents expect a lot from their children, but also they expect even more from their own behavior. How do I fix […]
How do you find the force of one object on another?
What happens to the energy when you place a liquid in the freezer?
What happens to the energy when you place a liquid in the freezer? When water freezes it gives up some of the water’s energy. This energy that is given up is the latent heat of freezing. When the water was freezing latent heat of freezing energy was being released. Energy is being transferred even through […]
How do you test an overloaded circuit?
How do you test an overloaded circuit? How to Check for an Electrical Circuit Overload Turn off all appliances and wall switches and unplug all lamps and appliances plugged into the circuit. Locate the circuit panel, often found in the basement or garage of most homes. Power on the wall switches one at a time […]
What is the SI unit of time?
What is the SI unit of time? second. The second, symbol s, is the SI unit of time. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the cesium frequency ΔνCs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the cesium 133 atom, to be 9 192 631 770 when expressed in the unit Hz, […]
What is binding energy used for?
What is binding energy used for? Binding energy, amount of energy required to separate a particle from a system of particles or to disperse all the particles of the system. Binding energy is especially applicable to subatomic particles in atomic nuclei, to electrons bound to nuclei in atoms, and to atoms and ions bound together […]