Physical Science (12th Edition), Standalone Book
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ISBN: 9781260150544
Author: Bill W. Tillery
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 14, Problem 45AC
To determine
The term for the proportionality between redshift and galaxy distance, from the following options:
(a) Doppler’s law
(b) Cepheid’s law
(c) Hubble’s law
(d) Kepler’s law
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