Which as more weight a kilogram of bricks in air or a kilogram of feathers in water? Explain your answer.
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Answer:
d = 10.2 m
Explanation:
When the car travels up the inclined plane, its kinetic energy will be used to do the work in climbing up. So according to the law of conservation of energy, we can write that:
where,
m = mass of car
v = speed of car at the start of plane = (36 km/h)(1000 m/1 km)(1 h/3600 s)
v = 10 m/s
F = force on the car in direction of inclination = W Sin θ
W = weight of car = mg
θ = Angle of inclinition = 30°
d = distance covered up the ramp = ?
Therefore,
<u>d = 10.2 m</u>
1)
2) 13.9 s
Explanation:
1)
The acceleration due to gravity is the acceleration that an object in free fall (acted upon the force of gravity only) would have.
It can be calculated using the equation:
(1)
where
G is the gravitational constant
is the Earth's mass
r is the distance of the object from the Earth's center
The pendulum in the problem is at an altitude of 3 times the radius of the Earth (R), so its distance from the Earth's center is
where
is the Earth's radius
Therefore, we can calculate the acceleration due to gravity at that height using eq.(1):
2)
The period of a simple pendulum is the time the pendulum takes to complete one oscillation. It is given by the formula
where
L is the length of the pendulum
g is the acceleration due to gravity at the location of the pendulum
Note that the period of a pendulum does not depend on its mass.
For the pendulum in this problem, we have:
L = 3 m is its length
is the acceleration due to gravity (calculated in part 1)
Therefore, the period of the pendulum is: