Questions

Although demand curves are typically downward sloping to reflect that consumers’ utility for a good diminishes with increased consumption, firm supply curves are generally upward sloping.The upward sloping character reflects that firms will be willing to increase production in response to a higher market price because the higher price may make additional production profitable.

A seconds pendulum is a pendulum whose period is precisely two seconds i.e, one second for a swing in one direction and one second for the return swing.

It was Mount Everest. It was not discovered yet but it was the highest mountain on the Earth.

Nullification is the legal theory that a state has the right to nullify (invalidate) any federal law that it deems unconstitutional

So far, there have not been any situations where this tactic has actually held up, though. In each case, nullification has failed.

Nonpartisanism is a lack of affiliation with or bias toward a political party.

If it loses an electron it becomes a positive ion