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jayhills49

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The 100 Year Starship initiative aims to devise a plan for sending a crewed spacecraft to a nearby star
 
  A) at a cost of less than a 100 billion US dollars
  B) with a travel time of one century or less
  C) within the next century
  D) a hundred light years distant

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If the mass of a 1.0 kg book could be entirely converted into electrical energy, how many Kw-h would that generate?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

2.5  1010 Kw-h ( = 9.0  1016 J)


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Reply 2 on: Jul 27, 2018
Wow, this really help

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