The starship Cosmographer receives a distress signal. Zorp, the communication officer, announces it is coming from an ally’s damaged ship four light-years away. How might Zorp know the distance to the source of the signal? Should the crew just drop everything and rush to the aid of the ship in distress? Why or why not? What would have to be different from our current understanding of science for the Cosmographer to get to the damaged ship on time to save its crew?

Comedians like to joke that the reason we haven’t been visited by intelligent life from elsewhere in the universe is that aliens have been monitoring earth’s broadcasts of intellectually embarrassing tv programs, like gilligan’s island, fear factor, the jersey shore, and the jerry springer showand so consider us far too primitive to merit a visit. let’s check the assertion that aliens could have been receiving them. tv programs are broadcast at a frequency of about 100mhz with about 100kw of total power in 30frames per second, which emanatesroughly uniformly in all directions. assume that interstellar space transmits these broadcasts without attenuation. no matter how smart they are, aliens would require at least one photon per frame to interpret our signals. findthe number of photons per unit time per unit area reaching a receiver on a possible planet in the nearest star system, which is about 4 light-years away (a light-year is the distance light travels in a year). if aliens aimed a receiver or detector directly at earth, how big (in diameter) would it have to be to receive a photon per frame

Agraduated cylinder contains 63.0 ml of water. a piece of gold, which has a density of 19.3 g/ cm3, is added to the water and the volume goes up to 64.5 ml. calculate the mass in grams of the gold that was added to the water. explain how you got your answer.

Two conductors, a and b, are each in the shape of a tetrahedron. but of different sizes. they are charged in the following manner: 1. tetrahedron a is charged from an electrostatic generator to charge q. 2. tetrahedron a is briefly touched to tetrahedron b. 3. steps 1 and 2 are repeated until the charge on tetrahedron b reaches a maximum value. if the charge on tetrahedron b was q/4 after the first time it touched tetrahedron a. what is the final charge qbmax on tetrahedron b?