Answer: Scientists found evidence of Earth's magnetic field reversal in rocks on the ocean floor at plate boundaries. These rocks have alternating polarity due to magnetization that were during their cooling period. Using radiometric dating, scientists estimate that reversals occur approximately every several hundred thousand years.
Explanation: The earth’s magnetic field impacts into the alignment of elements like iron in rocks due to Ferro-magnetization. This causes the elements to align in a north-south direction. Accordingly scientists have studied this alignment in ancient rocks, such as in the layers of sedimentary rocks, and realized that the earth magnetic field has flipped around 200,000 to 300,000 in the last 20 million years.
The path in which one object travels around another object in space is called its orbit.
We have that F=ma from the 2nd Newton law where F is the force, m is the mass and a is the acceleration. Suppose we have that F' is the new force and m' is the new mass. Then, we have that a'=F'/m' still, by rearranging Newton's law. We are given that F'=2F and m'=m/2. Hence,

But now, we have from F=ma, that a=F/m and we are given that a=1m/s^2.
We can substitute thus, a'=4a=4*1m/s^2=4m/s^2.
Answer:
Part a)

Part b)
t = 12 s
Explanation:
Part a)
Tension in the rope at a distance x from the lower end is given as

so the speed of the wave at that position is given as

here we know that

now we have


Part b)
time taken by the wave to reach the top is given as



