When evaluating a message that is important to you, do you rely on systematic processing or heuristics?

Arescue plane flying horizontally at spots a survivor in the ocean directly below and releases an emergency kit with a parachute. because of the shape of the parachute, it experiences insignificant horizontal air resistance. if the kit descends with a constant vertical acceleration of, how far away from the survivor will it hit the waves?

Alivestock company reports that the mean weight of a group of young steers is 1100 pounds with a standard deviation of 93 pounds. based on the model n(1100,93) for the weights of steers, what percent of steers weigh a) over 1050 pounds? b) under 1300 pounds? c) between 1150 and 1250 pounds?

The lights used by mark watley (played by matt damon) during the film the martian seem to be metal halide lamps. metal halide lamps are filled with vaporized mercury and metal-halogen compounds. when an electric current is passed through the lamp, the tube begins to glow a bright white/blue color. if you were to pass this light through a prism to separate the individual light frequencies, you would see a rainbow just as you would if using natural sunlight because of the complexity of the metal halide gas and the vast amount of possible electron transitions. (the study of light in this way is known as spectroscopy and allows astronomers to know exactly what atoms compose distant stars, simply by looking at the light they emit. the spectral lines an atom produces uniquely identifies that atom just like a fingerprint uniquely identifies a person. the momentum equation and energy equation that we have used above can be combined to give the following equation: c = e p where again p is the phonon momentum, e is the photon energy and c is the speed of light. when you divide the photon energy found in #6 by the photon momentum found in #4, do you get the speed of light? (if not, check your work for questions #4 through #6). yes no