This is a defective, misleading question, and should never be asked in a Physics class.
There is no such thing as the force due to the impact.
If you know how long it takes the clam to stop once it begins to hit the dirt,
then you can calculate the impulse transferred to it, and tease a force out
of that. But the question doesn't give us the time.
It depends on the material of the surface. Was the clam dropped onto dirt ?
Into a dumpster ? Onto grass ? Concrete ? Styrofoam ? Mud ? The answer
is different in each case, and we still need to know the short length of time
AFTER it first encountered whatever surface brought it to rest.
I would kick this question back to the Physics teacher. It's meaningless,
and the longer you try to work on it, the more nonsense you'll plant into
your head that'll need to be dug out later.
C) because a new substance is formed
B) not sure but might be because the chemical properties of the substance has changed
Answer:
the ball's velocity was approximately 0.66 m/s
Explanation:
Recall that we can study the motion of the baseball rolling off the table in vertical component and horizontal component separately.
Since the velocity at which the ball was rolling is entirely in the horizontal direction, it doesn't affect the vertical motion that can therefore be studied as a free fall, where only the constant acceleration of gravity is affecting the vertical movement.
Then, considering that the ball, as it falls covers a vertical distance of 0.7 meters to the ground, we can set the equation of motion for this, and estimate the time the ball was in the air:
0.7 = (1/2) g t^2
solve for t:
t^2 = 1.4 / g
t = 0.3779 sec
which we can round to about 0.38 seconds
No we use this time in the horizontal motion, which is only determined by the ball's initial velocity (vi) as it takes off:
horizontal distance covered = vi * t
0.25 = vi * (0.38)
solve for vi:
vi = 0.25/0.38 m/s
vi = 0.65798 m/s
Then the ball's velocity was approximately 0.66 m/s
Answer:
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