A fish cannot be killed by throwing an arrow into the water why?
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Answer:
If a vertical line extending down from an object's CG extends outside its area of support, the object will topple
Explanation:
We can understand better this situation using a diagram with the forces acting on it.
In the attached image we can see that when the gravity center is bouncing outside from the area of the pedestal, the object will be out of balance and will fall.
Answer:
635 years old
Explanation:
The light reaching the earth from the sun will travel at a speed called the speed of light, and this has a universal value of 3 × 10⁸ m/s. Bearing this in mind, let us calculate the age of the light reaching the Earth from the sun:
Distance of star from Earth = 6.1 × 10⁸m
Speed of light = 3 × 10⁸ m/s
We have distance and speed, let us calculate the time of travel of the light from the star to the earth.
Distance = speed × time
6.1 × 10⁸ = 3 × 10⁸ × time
In order to do the division above, we will divide the whole numbers normally, then we will apply the law of indices to the power that says:
Xᵃ ÷ Xᵇ = X⁽ᵃ⁻ᵇ⁾
Next, we are told that there are 3.2 × 10⁷ seconds in a year.
∴ The number of years travelled by the light from the star:
please note that:
2.03 × 10¹⁰ = 20300000000
3.2 × 10⁷ = 32000000
The closest answer in the option is 635 years, and we are short of this by some points due probably to approximations in the calculation.