Answer:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Loud concerts, power tools, construction work - they're affecting people's hearing. Hearing loss isn't just a problem for older people. In a few minutes, we're going to talk about some of the new high-tech ways of dealing with it. That's the subject of the latest New Yorker article by my guest, David Owen, who is a staff writer for the magazine. He's also a contributing editor at Golf Digest, which is how he got to play golf with Donald Trump. We'll talk about that, too.
But we're going to start with the subject of Owen's new book, "Where The Water Goes," about the Colorado River. The river and its tributaries supply water to over 36 million people in seven states - Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and California - and irrigates close to 6 million acres of farmland. Owen writes about the engineering feats that make all that possible and the legal and environmental battles surrounding the river. The Colorado River is so overtaxed that by the time it reaches the U.S.-Mexico border it's dry.
David Owen, welcome to FRESH AIR. So can you give us a kind of overview sense of the manmade things that have been done to control and disseminate water from the Colorado through the West?
DAVID OWEN: When you look at the Colorado River, it's not a big river. It's done these amazing things. It carved the Grand Canyon. But it's not - it's not broad. It's not like the Mississippi. The Mississippi is 1,000 miles longer, and the entire annual flow of the Colorado River flows down the Mississippi every couple of weeks. And yet in the western United States, it's incredibly important, in seven states. It supplies water to something like 26 million people. It irrigates 6 million acres of agriculture. And most of those 6 million acres are land that the river itself deposited, silt from, you know, what's missing from the Grand Canyon. It spread out across Arizona and California.
So there's this enormous network of canals and irrigation ditches and tunnels that draw water from that river and take it in some cases hundreds of miles away, you know, 300 miles to the west to Los Angeles, you know, 300 miles to the east to Phoenix and Tucson, hundreds of miles across deserts into reservoirs and canal systems. And it's governed by its own - its own laws that determine who gets to pull that water and use it and what they get to use it for.
GROSS: The plan for dividing the water among the seven river states - Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California - that was written up in 1922. You seem to think it's a pretty bad agreement. What makes it so bad?
OWEN: Everybody thinks it's both a bad agreement and a good agreement. It's bad because it divided up the river at a time when people thought the river contained a lot more water than it actually does. It's one of these great sort of ironies of history that in the 19 - the 1920s were some of the wettest years in that part of the country since the 1400s. So the river at that time was carrying more water than ever. And so when the states divided up the river, they were dividing up - actually water that didn't exist. On the other side, the good side is that, well, it's almost a century later and that compact, the agreement among those states, still exists.
GROSS: So how has the world and how has the population in the West changed since 1922 in ways that might make that agreement kind of out-of-date?
OWEN: Well, in lots of ways. There are many more people than anybody imagined in 1922. Some of the biggest, fastest-growing cities in the country are cities that depend on water from that river. Some of the most productive agricultural land draws water from that river. You know, for a long time the fact that they had divided up water that wasn't there didn't make any difference because nobody figured out how to use up all the water anyway. But now we've gotten much better at it and we use it up. So we stretch it farther than people did in those days.
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Answer:
yes
Explanation:
Force towards the center of the earth
A. force caused by gravity/weight force
B. Normal force
C. Friction force
D. Tension force
E. Applied force
Answer:
answer is C
Explanation:
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Answer:
A 1
B 3
c 4
d 3
Explanation:
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Cobalt (Co) has an atomic mass of 59 and an atomic number of 27. Which statement correctly describes an atom of cobalt?
O A. An atom of cobalt contains more neutrons than protons.
B. An atom of cobalt contains more electrons than protons.
O C. An atom of cobalt contains the same number of neutrons and protons.
O D. An atom of cobalt contains the same number of neutrons, electrons and protons.
Answer:
Option A. An atom of cobalt contains more neutrons than protons.
Explanation:
From the question given above, the following data were obtained:
Mass number = 59
Atomic number = 27
Next, we shall determine the number of protons in the atom. This is illustrated below:
Atomic number of an element is simply defined as the number of protons in the atom of the element. Thus,
Atomic number = proton number
Atomic number = 27
Therefore,
Proton number = 27
Next, we shall determine the neutron number. This can be obtained as follow:
Mass number = 59
Proton number = 27
Neutron number =?
Mass number = Proton + Neutron
59 = 27 + Neutron
Collect like terms
Neutron = 59 – 27
Neutron number = 32
Next, we shall determine the number of electrons. This can be obtained as follow:
Since the atom is neutral i.e it has no charge, then, the number of protons and electrons are equal. Thus,
Electron number = Proton number
Proton number = 27
Therefore,
Electron number = 27
Summary:
Mass number = 59
Atomic number = 27
Proton number = 27
Neutron number = 32
Electron number = 27
From the above, we can see that the atom of cobalt contains:
1. More neutrons than protons.
2. The same number of protons and electrons.
Therefore, option A gives the correct answer to the question.
A rollercoaster car has 2500 J of potential energy and 160 J of
kinetic energy at the top of the first hill.
How much energy and what kind of energy will there be at the
bottom of the first hill?
2660 J of KE
0 2660 J of Peg
2500 J of KE
160 J of PEG
Answer:
E_{k2}=2660 [J] kinetic energy.
Explanation:
The energy in the initial state i.e. when the rollercoaster is at the top is equal to the energy in the final state i.e. when it is at the bottom of the hill.
These states can be represented by means of the second equation.
[tex]E_{k1}+E_{p1}=E_{k2}\\160 + 2500 = E_{k2}\\E_{k2}=2660 [J][/tex]
Since the rollercoaster is located in the bottom of the hill where the potential energy level is zero, therefore there is only kinetic energy in the second state.
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A graph is provided below. The graph shows the speed of a car traveling
east over a 12 second period. Based on the information in the graph, it
can be concluded that in the first 6 seconds, the car is -
Answer:
Accelerating
Explanation:
A red 120 kg bumper car moving at 4 m/s collides with a green 100 kg bumper car moving at 3 m/s. The red bumper car bounces off at 2 m/s. What is the green car's final velocity?
Two students are studying for a Science Test. On the table, they had a glass of water and identical cell phones. Both of their phones had run out of battery, therefore they were both charging in the same wall outlet. One student’s charging cord was 3ft and the other student’s charging cord was 9ft. which of the phones charged the fastest using Ohm’s Law. Cite evidence to support your theory.
Answer:
The student with the 3ft charger
Explanation:
Because the electricity from the 3ft charger has a shorter distance to mooves than the 9ft one
What connects the colon to the anus?AColon B Anus C Rectum D Biceps
The answer is C. Rectum.
Answer:
You have a severe case.
Explanation:
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The sixth grade teachers are planning a field trip. They want to divide the 192 students evenly on the four buses. How many students will ride each bus?
Answer:
48 students will ride on each bus.
Explanation:
192 students divided by 4 busses comes out to 48 students per bus.
Basically: 192/4=48
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1. Inertia causes a stationary object to...
a.stay still
b.move
c.have an increased velocity
d.change it’s speed or direction
2. Once an applied force causes an object to start moving, the object keeps moving because....
a.none of the above
b.the force continues to be applied to it
c.no other force is acting on it
d.it has inertia
The water cycle was described in the Scriptures long before modern scientists understood it.
True False
Answer:
False
Explanation:
Low humidity is typically associated with cold temperatures since cold air holds less water compared to warm air. While it is possible for indoor humidity to be as low as 10%, most people generally find humidity levels of about 40 to 45 percent comfortable.
An electric energy distributor supplies each household 220
volts of voltage and 60 A of current. Applying your knowledge on Ohm's Law, in what way your appliances be used at home to maintain a safe amount of current?
Answer:
Hence appliance but be connected to a 3.67 ohms load to maintain a safe amount of the current
Explanation:
According to Ohm's law, V = IR
V is the potential difference = 220volts
I is the current = 60 A
R is the resistance (Load)
Calculating the load R
R = V/I
R = 220/60
R = 3.67 ohms
Hence appliance but be connected to a 3.67 ohms load to maintain a safe amount of the current
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what about power: when shoveling versus using a snow blower, is power more, less, or the same? explain.
A snow blower is more powerful because it's easier, and it moves large amounts of snow easily. Shoveling uses all of your power. It can be difficult and it takes a long time to get the snow off of your lawn.
Therefore, using a snow blower is more powerful than using a shovel.
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Answer:
d
Explanation:
because earth does have more water than land so it would be d
What training principle states that you must continue to exercise to mantain fitness a. Balance
A substance will take on the shape of an open container if it is a
liquid.
plasma.
gas.
solid.
Answer:
liquid
Explanation:
A river flows due east at 1.50 m/s. A boat crosses the river from the south shore to the north shore by maintaining a constant velocity of 10.0 m/s due north relative to the water. If the river is 325 m wide, how far downstream is the boat when it reaches the north shore?
Answer:
Explanation:
Given that the velocity of the river is 1.50m/s due east.
The velocity of the boat with respect to the river is 10.0 m/s due north .
The width of the river is 325 m.
Note that the velocity of the boat will help in crossing the river.
Hence, speed = distance/time
Speed = 10.0 m/s
Distance = 325 m
Time = ?
10 = 325/time
Time = 325/10
Time = 32.5s
Hence in 32.5s the horizontal distance traveled by boat will be
= 1.50m/s × 32.5s
= 48.75m
While studying bacterial cells, scientists measure the lengths of the cells in one colony. The chart shows their data. The scientists notice that one measurement stands out. How should the scientists best deal with this measurement? accept it as true and use 85 micrometers in the data when they find the average length accept it as true but say that it is the only cell that has ever been that long consider that there was an error during measuring and collect further data consider that it is possible but very unlikely for these bacterial cells to be so long
Answer:
Following are the solution to the given question:
Explanation:
Its best approach to this measurement ought to be to indicate that there was a mistake throughout the calculation, as well as the gathering of further details while researching cells for bacteria, directly measuring the cell length of a colony. This chart illustrates its data, which scientists have observed that there's still a measurement.
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Answer:
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Explanation:
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Which statement is true about compounds?
A: They do not form living things.
B: They do not form non-living things.
C: They are when electrons of different atoms combine.
D: They are when atoms of different elements combine.
Answer:
Its D
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Charles, the 75 kg trampoline artist, lands on a trampoline with a speed of 9.0 m/s.
If the trampoline behaves like a spring with a spring constant of 52,000 N/m, what maximum distance will Charles push down the trampoline before bouncing back up? (Hint: at maximum compression, Charles is not moving.)
Answer:
The maximum distance Charles will push down the trampoline ≈ 0.342 m
Explanation:
The given parameters are;
The mass of the trampoline artist, m = 75 kg
The speed with which the trampoline artist lands, v = 9.0 m/s
The value of the spring constant of the trampoline, k = 52,000 N/m
Let x represents the maximum distance Charles will push down the trampoline
Therefore, we have;
Kinetic energy = 1/2·m·v²
The kinetic energy with which the trampoline artist lands = 1/2 × 75 × 9.0² = 3037.5
The kinetic energy with which the trampoline artist lands = 3037.5 J
The potential energy stored in a spring = 1/2·k·x² = The kinetic energy with which the trampoline artist lands
∴ 1/2 × 52,000 × x² = 3037.5
∴ x = √(3037.5/(1/2 × 52,000)) ≈ 0.342
The maximum distance Charles will push down the trampoline = x ≈ 0.342 m
How many meters are in 22,053 kilometers? If there are 1,000 meters in one kilometer
Answer:
50m
Explanation:
[tex] \frac{1}{(1 - \sqrt{3) {}^{2} } } [/tex]
Answer:
\frac{2+\sqrt{3}}{2}
Explanation:
so we simplify tthe denominator first
[tex](1-\sqrt{3})^2=[/tex][tex]4-2\sqrt{3}[/tex]
so the new fraction is:[tex]\frac{1}{4-2\sqrt{3}}[/tex]
We'll ratinalize the fraction to get: [tex]\frac{2+\sqrt{3}}{2}[/tex]
What did normal mean in the hive in the b movie
In the movie, "normal" means staying in the hive, working in the honey factory and getting in relationships with any living but no interaction with humans. A life out of the hive and any interaction with humans is strictly prohibited. Picking a job
like real bees do
in summary bees just need to do what there post to do
Answer:
Being Normal mean Submitting to the Conformed society that Barry B Benson wanted to rebel Against so that he didn't have to work the Same Job Everyday to which his father accepted himself into. once Barry had surpassed the Bee Law after speaking with Vanessa they got onto the plane to save all of the Flowers on earth and Save Mankind/Beekind, Barry gets accepted as a Pollen Jock. thus Reaching the end of the movie
A car of mass 1000 kg travelling at a velocity of 25 m/s collides with another car of mass 1500kg which is at rest. The two cars stick and move off together. What is the velocity of the two cars after the collision?
Answer:
The velocity of the two cars is 10 m/s after the collision.
Explanation:
Law Of Conservation Of Linear Momentum
The total momentum of a system of bodies is conserved unless an external force is applied to it. The formula for the momentum of a body with mass m and velocity v is
P=m.v
If we have a system of bodies, then the total momentum is the sum of them all
[tex]P=m_1v_1+m_2v_2+...+m_nv_n[/tex]
If some collision occurs, the velocities change to v' and the final momentum is:
[tex]P'=m_1v'_1+m_2v'_2+...+m_nv'_n[/tex]
In a system of two masses, the law of conservation of linear momentum takes the form:
[tex]m_1v_1+m_2v_2=m_1v'_1+m_2v'_2[/tex]
If both masses stick together after the collision at a common speed v', then:
[tex]m_1v_1+m_2v_2=(m_1+m_2)v'[/tex]
The car of mass m1=1000 Kg travels at v1=25 m/s and collides with another car of m2=1500 Kg which is at rest (v2=0).
Knowing both cars stick and move together after the collision, their velocity is found solving for v':
[tex]\displaystyle v'=\frac{m_1v_1+m_2v_2}{m_1+m_2}[/tex]
[tex]\displaystyle v'=\frac{1000*25+1500*0}{1000+1500}[/tex]
[tex]\displaystyle v'=\frac{25000}{2500}[/tex]
v' = 10 m/s
The velocity of the two cars is 10 m/s after the collision.
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2. Write "PE" or KE" next to the types of energy
gravitational
sound
chemical
nuclear
radiant
thermal
elastic
electrical
A boat travels at 15 m/s in a direction 45° east of north for an hour. The boat then turns and travels at 18 m/s in a direction 5° north of east for an hour.
Answer:
first one 31
second one 23
Explanation:
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What causes electric current to flow in the loop of wire that turns between an
electric generator's two permanent magnets?
A. Electric charges in the wire loop flow when the magnetic fields of
the magnets frequently switch direction.
B. The magnetic field of the magnets causes a mechanical force to
act on the electric charges within the moving loop of wire.
C. Electrons that flow from the magnets into the loop of wire carry
mechanical energy to the electric charges within the wire.
D. The magnetic fields of the magnets attract the magnetic field of
each of the atoms that make up the loop of wire.
Answer:
B. The magnetic field of the magnets causes a mechanical force to
act on the electric charges within the moving loop of wire.
The magnetic field of the magnets causes a mechanical force to
act on the electric charges within the moving loop of the wire causes an electric current to flow in the loop of wire that turns between an electric generator's two permanent magnets, therefore the correct option is B.
What is a magnetic field?
A magnetic field could be understood as an area around a magnet, magnetic material, or an electric charge in which magnetic force is exerted. The SI unit of the magnetic field is tesla.
the magnetic field can also be generated as the magnetic effect of electric current for example when current is flown through an electrical wire there is the generation of the magnetic field around the conducting wire
For a simple bar magnet, N-pole and S-pole are the points on a magnet that have the strongest magnetic field. The magnetic field originates from the north pole and terminates in the south pole of a magnet.
The magnetic field of the magnets causes a mechanical force to act on the electric charges within the moving loop of the wire responsible for the electric current to flow in the loop of wire that turns between an
electric generator's two permanent magnets.
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