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2 years ago

Why doesn't the force of gravity change the speed of a bowling ball as it rolls along a bowling lane?

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Because the gravitational force, which points downward, is perfectly balanced by the normal reaction of the floor of the bowling lane, which points upward. The two forces are equal in magnitude, so the net force acting vertically on the bowling ball is zero, therefore there is no acceleration along this direction. Moreover, since the ball is moving in the horizontal direction, the gravitational force has no component along this direction, so it does not change the velocity of the ball.

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Answer:

Apply Newton's second law in the moving direction.

Explanation:

$\begin{aligned}F &= ma\\5N-2N &= 25kg\times a\\a & = \frac{3N}{25kg}\\&= 0.12ms^{-2}\end{aligned}$

Friction force applies in the opposite direction of motion; as a restriction.

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3 years ago

An isolated conducting sphere has a 17 cm radius. One wire carries a current of 1.0000020 A into it. Another wire carries a curr

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14 ms is required to reach the potential of 1500 V.

<u>Explanation:</u>

The current is measured as the amount of charge traveling per unit time. So the charge of electrons required for each current is determined as the product of current with time.

$Charge = Current \times Time$

As two different current is passing at two different times, the net charge will be the different in current. So,

$\text { Charge }=(1.0000020-1.0000000) \times t=2 \times 10^{-6} \times t$

The electric voltage on the surface of cylinder can be obtained as the ratio of charge to the radius of the cylinder.

$V=\frac{k q}{R}$

Here $k = 9 * 10^9$ , q is the charge and R is the radius. As $q=2 \times 10^{-6} \times t$ and R =17 cm = 0.17 m, then the voltage will be

$V=\frac{9 \times 10^{9} \times 2 \times 10^{-6} \times t}{0.17}$

The time is required to find to reach the voltage of 1500 V, so

$1500 =\frac{9 \times 10^{9} \times 2 \times 10^{-6} \times t}{0.17}$

$\begin{aligned}&t=\frac{1500 \times 0.17}{\left(9 \times 10^{9} \times 2 \times 10^{-6}\right)}\\&t=14.1666 \times 10^{-3} s=14\ \mathrm{ms}\end{aligned}$

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3 years ago

If a cart goes around a turn at 20 km/h ,what remains constant

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Answer: 4.speed

Explanation:

In this case, we know that the cart remains at a constant 20km/h.

Now, one could say that "the velocity remains constant, because it always is 20km/h"

But remember that velocity is a vector, so this has a direction, and if the cart is going around a turn, then the direction of motion is changing, which tell us that there is acceleration.

But the module of the velocity, the speed, remains constant at 20km/h.

Then the correct option is 4, speed.

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2 years ago

Three blocks are shown: Three blocks are shown. Block A has mass 3 kilograms, length 6 centimeters, height 4 centimeters, and wi

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Answer:

Block A has the greatest density.

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Block A density:0.0625 kg/cm3

Block B density:0.020833 kg/cm3

Block C density:0.041667 kg/cm3

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2 years ago

How is it possible for a person watching a baseball game on TV to hear sounds before someone who is actually watching the same g

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Answer:

It is possible because, the TV broadcast audio and video signals in radio frequency which travels at the speed of light while the audio signals travel to those present in the stadium at the speed of sound which is over eight hundred thousand times slower than the speed of light

Explanation:

It is possible because of the following;

1. TV signals from the camera (including the captured sound) very close to the field of play are transmitted through the radio frequency bands and as such are a form of electromagnetic radiation that travels at the speed of light which is about 300,000 km/second

It will therefore, take 1 second for a sound of the game to reach someone located at 300,000,000 meters watching a live televised game

2. The speed of sound is about 343 m/second and it therefore takes up to 2 seconds for a sound to reach someone 686 meters away from the ball in the stadium.

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