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3 years ago

Is the term used to describe an object with enough orbital energy to escape earth completely?

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Escape velocity describes its speed. It becomes a satellite instead of falling back to earth because as it falls under Earth’s gravity the Earth has moved so the satellite falls around the planet instead of down to the ground.

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If you start with a substance as a solid, what will happen to the molecules as you add thermal energy (heat)?

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Answer:

C. molecules speed up as more thermal energy is added

Explanation:

The molecules will simply speed up as more thermal energy is added to the solid.

Thermal energy is a form of kinetic energy which is set in motion.

Heat causes kinetic energy build up in a body.
As the molecules of the solid gains heat, they will continue to increase in thermal energy.
They are forced to start vibrating about their fixed point.
Thereafter, when they have enough energy, they break free from the forces holding them.
Therefore, they move from a state of rest to one with a very high kinetic energy where the molecules moves rapidly.
This is why a solid will change to liquid and sometimes eventually gas

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Voices of swimmers at a pool travel 400 m/s through the air and 1,600 m/s underwater. The wavelength changes from 2 m in the air

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The frequency of the wave has not changed.

In fact, the frequency of a wave is given by:

$f=\frac{v}{\lambda}$

where v is the wave's speed and $\lambda$ is the wavelength.

Applying the formula:

- In air, the frequency of the wave is:

$f=\frac{400 m/s}{2 m}=200 Hz$

- underwater, the frequency of the wave is:

$f=\frac{1600 m/s}{8 m}=200 Hz$

So, the frequency has not changed.

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PLEASE HELP!!! 25 pts!!

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Answer:

The slope of the graph is what you need. That tells you the speed not the velocity. In order to find the velocity you would also need to know the direction of the motion.

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An object travels with a constant speed in a circular path. The net force on the object is

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Answer:

toward the center

Explanation:

Before answering, let's remind the first two Newton Laws:

1) An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object moving at constant velocity tends to continue its motion at constant velocity, unless acted upon a net force

2) An object acted upon a net force F experiences an acceleration a according to the equation

$F=ma$

where m is the mass of the object.

In this problem, we have an object travelling at constant speed in a circular path. The fact that the trajectory of the object is circular means that the direction of motion of the object is constantly changing: this means that its velocity is changing, so it has an acceleration. And therefore, a net force is acting on it. The force that keeps the object travelling in the circular path is called centripetal force, and it is directed towards the center of the circle (because it prevents the object from continuing its motion straight away).

So, the correct answer is

toward the center

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