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1 year ago

Why do the waves have different speeds in different layers of Earth's surface?

Physics

1 answer:

Genrish500 [490]1 year ago

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Answer:

Material's density

Explanation:

Seismic waves travel at different rates of speed based on a material's density. Hopefully, you understand that the Earth has three main layers: the crust, mantle, and core. Earthquake waves move faster through solids.

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Imagine that you are driving in your car with a heavy bag of groceries on the front seat and you slam on your brakes to stop. Th

Alexxx [7]

Answer:

The correct answer is inertia.

Explanation:

The heavy bag of groceries is initially within the inertia frame of the car. This indicates that the heavy bag acquires the same speed as the car.

When the car stops, the heavy bag continues to move forward with the speed it had due to the principle of inertia, which states the property that the bodies cannot modify by themselves the state of rest or movement in which they are.

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3 years ago

Which of the following has the largest momentum?

san4es73 [151]

Momentum = mass x velocity

Thus Option A is the correct answer

Momentum (dog) = 10 kg x (0.447 x 30) m/s

= 134.1 Kg m/s

Momentum ( bullet) = 0.02 kg x (0.447 x 800) m/s

= 7.152 Kg m/s

Momentum ( truck) = 0, as v = 0

tightrope has both low mass and low speed, thus its momentum will be low

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3 years ago

A stuntman with a mass of 80.5 kg swings across a moat from a rope that is 11.5 m. At the bottom of the swing the stuntman's spe

goldenfox [79]

Answer:

No
5.49 m/s

Explanation:

The net force required to accelerate the stuntman in a circular arc of radius 11.5 m will be ...

F = mv²/r . . . . where this m is the mass being accelerated, v is the tangential velocity, and r is the radius.

Here, the net force needs to be ...

F = (80.5 kg)(8.45 m/s)²/(11.5 m) . . . . . where this m is meters

≈ 499.8175 kg·m/s² = 499.8 N

Gravity exerts a force on the stuntman of ...

F = mg = (80.5 kg)(9.8 m/s²) = 788.9 kg·m/s² = 788.9 N

Then the tension required in the rope/vine is ...

499.8 N+788.9 N= 1288.7 N

This is more than the capacity of the rope, so we do not expect the stuntman to make it across the moat.

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The allowed net force for centripetal acceleration is ...

1000 N -788.9 N = 211.1 N

Then the allowed velocity is ...

211.1 = 80.5v²/11.5

30.16 = v² . . . . multiply by 11.5/80.5

5.49 = v . . . . . . take the square root

The maximum speed the stuntman can have is 5.49 m/s.

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<em>Comment on crossing the moat</em>

The kinetic energy at the bottom of the swing translates to potential energy at the end of the swing. At the lower speed, the stuntman cannot rise as high, so will traverse a shorter arc. At 8.45 m/s, the moat could be about 16.8 m wide; at 5.49 m/s, it can only be about 11.5 m wide.

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2 years ago

Alfred wegener was the one who made contiental drift theory ?

navik [9.2K]

Yep. he discovered that coastline from south america and africa fit together like a puzzle, which later became a part of the continential drift theory

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3 years ago

In an experiment, a rectangular block with height h is allowed to float in two separate liquids. In the first liquid, which is w

Amiraneli [1.4K]

Answer:

The relative density of the second liquid is 7.

Explanation:

From archimede's principle we know that the force that a liquid exerts on a object equals to the weight of the liquid that the object displaces.

Let us assume that the volume of the object is 'V'

Thus for the liquid in which the block is completely submerged

The buoyant force should be equal to weight of liquid

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