You are an astronomer who wants to study a faint star in the process of being born, which gives off most of its faint radiation in the infra-red. Which of the following would NOT be a step you would want to take?

(A) heat your telescope, so its delicate optics are not cold
(B) try to have your telescope as high above the layers of water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere as possible
(C) shield your telescope from the radiation given off by your graduate students
(D) isolate your telescope in very cold surroundings
(E) make sure your telescope optics are kept as free of dust as possible

Complete the sentence to describe the law of conservation of energy. the law of conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or , but it can be

The a992 steel rod bc has a diameter of 50 mm and is used as a strut to support the beam. determine the maximum intensity w of the uniform distributed load that can be applied to the beam without risk of causing the strut to buckle. take f.s. = 2 against bucklin

Researchers determine that the biodiversity in a woodland region is declining. they identify two major threats to the region's biodiversity, a method to address each threat, and the expected outcome of each method. this information is shown in the table. a) reforestation would not benefit many species because most forest species live on the ground. b) reforestation would take the longest time to be effective because trees take several years to grow. c) biological augmentation would benefit only a few species because is is typically not very effective. d) biological augmentation would take less time to ve effective because it targets the majority of prey species.