"Gamma rays" is the name that we call the shortest of all electromagnetic waves. They're shorter than radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, heat waves, visible light waves, ultraviolet waves, and X-rays. They extend all the way down to waves that are as short as the distance across an atom.
Being so short, they carry lots of energy. They can penetrate many materials, and they can damage living cells and DNA. They're dangerous.
The sun puts out a lot of gamma radiation. The atmosphere (air) filters out a lot of it, otherwise there couldn't even be any life on Earth.
As soon as astronauts fly out of the atmosphere, they need a lot of shielding from gamma rays.
You know the precautions we take when we're around X-rays. The same precautions apply around gamma rays, only a lot more so.
It's only in the past several years that we've learned how to MAKE gamma rays without blowing things up. Also, how to control them, and how to use them for medical and industrial applications.
<span>We can use an equation to find the gravitational force exerted on the HST.
F = GMm / r^2
G is the gravitational constant
M is the mass of the Earth
m is the mass of the HST
r is the distance to the center of the Earth
This force F provides the centripetal force for the HST to move in a circle. The equation we use for circular motion is:
F = mv^2 / r
m is the mass of the HST
v is the tangential speed
r is the distance to the center of the Earth
Now we can equate these two equations to find v.
mv^2 / r = GMm / r^2
v^2 = GM / r
v = sqrt{GM / r }
v = sqrt{(6.67 x 10^{-11})(5.97 x 10^{24}) / 6,949,000 m}
v = 7570 m/s which is equal to 7.570 km/s
HST's tangential speed is 7570 m/s or 7.570 km/s</span>
Answer:
The answer is C.
Explanation:
Every point mass attracts every single other point mass by a force acting along the line intersecting both points. The force is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. In magnitude, the force they apply each other is the same. Therefore, the force that the windshield exerts on the bug and the force that the bug exerts on the windshield are the same magnitude.
Answer: 288 m
Explanation: 288 m is the correct answer because the question states that the ball is thrown at 96 m every second, and our question tells us that the ball travels 3 seconds. This means we have to multiply 96 x 3 = 288 m.
Acceleration = change of velocity / time taken = 25/5 = 5 m/s/s
