Answer:
Based on its mass, the sun's gravitational attraction to the Earth is more than 177 times greater than that of the moon to the Earth.
<span>Water in the oceans may become fresh water available to humans through the processes of evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
In these processes, water is heated to a very high temperature until it evaporates in order to kill the germs and remove the salts which remains after water evaporation. The next step in condensing the water vapor (which is now fresh) and precipitating this vapor to be used by humans.</span>
The half life of Carbon-14 is 5730 years, how many years would it take for 7/8 of the original amount to decay?
<span>Can somebody please help with this problem. I *think* I understand the basics of what a half life is. If I learned correctly, its the amount it takes for half of a sample to decay. It should also happen exponentially, 1/2 remaining after one half life, 1/4 after the second, 1/16 after the third etc. I'm still a little shaky though. Could somebody please clarify what exactly a half life is and how it can be determined (i.e. how to find the time it would take for 7/8 to decay) </span>
Answer:
The potential energy of the more massive one is twice that of the other.
Explanation:
Potential energy is given by
<em>PE</em> = <em>mgh</em>
where <em>m</em> = mass of body, <em>g</em> = acceleration of gravity and <em>h</em> = height or elevation.
For the less massive car, let the mass be 
. Then its <em>PE</em> is
For the massive car, let the mass be 
. Its <em>PE</em> is
But 
Hence, the potential energy of the more massive one is twice that of the other.
