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DyllonKazuo

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True or False: If you were traveling in a spaceship at a speed of c/2 relative to Earth and you fired a laser beam in the direction of the spaceships motion, the light from the laser would travel at a speed of 3c/2 relative to Earth.
  1.False
  2.True

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Suppose you are observing a binary star with a telescope and are having difficulty resolving the two stars. You decide to use a colored filter to help you. Should you choose a blue filter or a red filter?
  1.blue filter
  2.red filter
  3.neither because colored filters have no effect on resolution


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Reply #1 on: Jul 28, 2018
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DyllonKazuo

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Reply 2 on: Jul 28, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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:D TYSM

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