Physical properties of matter can be observed without changing the identity of the substance. The phases of matter are physical properties. Solids are different from liquids and gases primarily because

What is a characteristic of nuclear fusion but not nuclear fission?

Which type of friction force acts when there is no motion?

Derive an expression for the gravitational potential energy of a system consisting of Earth and a brick of mass m placed at Earth's center. Take the potential energy for the system with the brick placed at infinity to be zero.

A student drops an object from the top of a building which is 19.6 m high. How long does it take the object to fall to the ground?

How did Edwin Hubble study the redshifting of light from nebulae?

Halley's Comet appears around the sun about once every 76 years. It passes through the part of its orbit nearest the sun in just a few months but then moves out to great distances and takes more than half a century for the rest of its orbit.

In order to hike around a portion of Lake Allatoona, a tour guide determines that he must take his group 150 m east, 60 m north, then 75 m west.

Explain what happens to light when it is refracted at the surface of water.

A small car meshes with a large truck in a head-on collision. Which of the following statements concerning the magnitude of the momentum change during the collision is correct? (There could be more than one correct choice.

Consider the following distribution of objects: a 3.00-kg object with its center of gravity at (0, 0) m, a 4.20-kg object at (0, 6.00) m, and a 1.40-kg object at (1.00, 0) m. Where should a fourth object of mass 7.