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explain the relationship between resistance and voltage in a filament lamp

A: Before I dive into the relationship between resistance and voltage in a filament lamp, it is important to first understand what type of a conductor a filamen...

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define 1 volt

In order to understand what 1 volt is, we have to first see what is a “volt” used for!The volt - or V - is the SI unit for potential difference, which is define...

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How does the red shift support the Big Bang theory?

A: In order to understand the validity of the Big Bang Theory, we would like to first understand what the red shift is. The red shift is a phenomenon wherein wa...

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"A car driver has to make an emergency stop. The braking distance depends on the speed of the car. For the same braking force, what happens to the braking distance if the speed doubles?"

To understand this, we have to take it step by step. Firstly, if the speed is doubling, then that means kinetic energy increases by a factor of 4, since:K.E = 1...

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"A kettle boils 0.6kg of water. After some time the temperature of the water has decreased to 83 degrees. The specific heat capacity of water is 4200J/kg. Calculate the energy transferred to the surroundings."

A: Here we will use the specific heat capacity - i.e. the amount of heat energy needed to raise or lower the temperature of a substance of mass 1 kg by 1 deg C...

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What are the definitions of a)voltage and b)current?

A: a) Voltage in essence is a measure of the amount of work done per unit charge as it moves through a circuit. Now, voltage can be differentiated into two type...

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Why can light travel through space but sound cannot?

There are two types of waves: transverse and longitudinal. Light is a transverse wave, therefore its oscillations are perpendicular to the direction of motion....

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"A car of mass 1500kg is travelling at 10 ms-1 along a horizontal road. A brake force of 3000N brings it to rest. Calculate the deceleration of the car and the distance travelled by the car whilst decelerating."

This is a classic forces question, which is seen in different variations throughout the past papers. To calculate the answer we will need to re-arrange the forc...

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"An ideal gas within a closed system undergoes an isothermal expansion from an initial volume of 1m^3 to 2m^3. Given that the initial pressure of the gas is 10^5 Pa, find the final pressure of the gas following the expansion."

This is an ideal gas question, so the equation PV=NKT will be used. Here P tells us Pressure, V=volume, N=number of particles, K= Boltzmann's constant and T=Tem...

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What is the difference between an elastic and inelastic collision

Remember, that in all collisions momentum is conserved; that is, the momentum before the collision will always be equal to the momentum after the collision in a...

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