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Kepler’s third law of planetary motion states that the square of a planet’s orbital period is directly proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the orbit. Put simply, planets __________ the Sun have __________ orbital periods, and we can calculate a planet’s orbital period if we know the dimensions of its orbit.

Which of the following celestial objects in our Solar System is made mostly of ice and gases?

Name the following species:  Iron (III) nitrate  sodium dioxide  hypochlorous acid zinc chloride

Sir Isaac Newton proposed the three laws of motion and the law of gravity. Which statement best describes his law of gravity?

The wind indicated by the arrows in the diagram occurs

Assuming that you have created the attributes for the ProductClass mentioned in the previous question, which of the following methods would meet the criteria for updating/mutating the inventory of a product? Criteria:  The method should allow for a parameter capturing the number of items the user wishes to purchase. The method should update the inventory’s “_onHand” attribute mentioned in the previous question. You don’t need to worry about negative inventory. If the customer orders more than we have on hand, we will place an order with our supplier and fill the order anyway. Which of the following meets the above criteria?

Mid-latitude cyclones begin where a strong __________ center develops along a __________.

Which planet has rings that can be seen from the Earth?

The following four questions are related to a new job you landed at a retail store. As part of your responsibilities, you’ve been assigned to work on a class called ProductClass, which serves as the blueprint for all the products sold by the store. The following code defines ProductClass in a script.  class ProductClass(): def __init__(self): self.__price = 5.0 self.__onHand = 0 self.__numberOfItems = 10 Assuming that the main program and the class are in the same script, how would you create two objects from the ProductClass? This question tests your ability to create multiple instances (objects) of a class.

Which method is automatically executed when an object of a class is created in memory?