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Which statement about atmospheric pressure near earth's surface is true

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Artemon [7]2 years ago

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The correct answer is it decreases as someone moves away from earth's surface.

The atmospheric pressure decreases when you go near the surface of the earth. Atmospheric pressure can also be referred to as barometric pressure.

This is the pressure which is being found in the earth's atmosphere. It is approximated by pressure of hydrostatic which is known to be caused by weight of air where the measurement points are above.

When elevation increases, there is decrease in atmospheric pressure.

Force per unit are is measured by pressure.

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(b) How far from the surface will a particle go if it leaves the asteroid's surface with a radial speed of 1510 m/s? (c) With wh

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(a) $2509.98 m/s$

(b) 397042.215 m

Explanation:

The question is incomplete, please remember to write the whole question :) However, part (a) is written below:

(a) What is the escape speed on a spherical asteroid whose radius is $700 km$ and whose gravitational acceleration at the surface is $a_{g}=4.5 m/s^{2}$

Knowing this, let's begin:

a) In this part we need to find the escape speed $V_{e}$ on the asteroid:

$V_{e}=\sqrt{\frac{2GM}{R}}$ (1)

Where:

$G$ is the universal gravitational constant

$M$ is the mass of the asteroid

$R=700 km=700(10)^{3} m$ is the radius of the asteroid

On the other hand we know the gravitational acceleration is $a_{g}=4.5 m/s^{2}$ , which is given by:

$a_{g}=\frac{GM}{R^{2}}$ (2)

Isolating $GM$ :

$GM=a_{g}R^{2}$ (3)

Substituting (3) in (1):

$V_{e}=\sqrt{\frac{2a_{g}R^{2}}{R}}=\sqrt{2a_{g}R}$ (4)

$V_{e}=\sqrt{2(4.5 m/s^{2})(700(10)^{3} m)}$ (5)

$V_{e}=2509.98 m/s$ (6) This is the escape velocity

b) In this part we will use the Conservation of mechanical energy principle:

$E_{o}=E_{f}$ (7)

Being:

$E_{o}=K_{o}+U_{o}=\frac{1}{2}m V^{2} - \frac{GMm}{R}$ (8)

$E_{f}=K_{f}+U_{f}=0 - \frac{GMm}{R+h}$ (9)

Where:

$E_{o}$ is the initial mechanical energy

$E_{f}$ is the final mechanical energy

$K_{o}$ is the initial kinetic energy

$K_{f}=0$ is the final kinetic energy

$U_{o}$ is the initial gravitational potential energy

$U_{f}$ is the final gravitational potential energy

$m$ is the mass of the object

$V=1510 m/s$ is the radial speed of the object

$h$ is the distance above the surface of the object

Then:

$\frac{1}{2}m V^{2} - \frac{GMm}{R}=- \frac{GMm}{R+h}$ (10)

Isolating $h$ :

$h=\frac{2 a_{g} R^{2}}{2a_{g}R-V^{2}}-R$ (11)

$h=\frac{2 (4.5 m/s^{2}) (700(10)^{3} m)^{2}}{2(4.5 m/s^{2})(700(10)^{3} m)-(1510 m/s)^{2}}-700(10)^{3} m$ (11)

$h=397042.215 m$ (12) This is the distance above the asteroid's surface

c) We will use the Conservation of mechanical energy principle again, but now the condition is that the object is dropped at a distance $h=981.8 km=981.8(10)^{3} m$ . This means that at the begining the object only has gravitational potential energy and then it has kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy:

$\frac{-GMm}{R+h}=\frac{-GMm}{R}+\frac{1}{2}mV^{2}$ (13)

Isolating $V$ :

$V=\sqrt{2a_{g} R(1-\frac{R}{R+h})}$ (14)

$V=\sqrt{2(4.5 m/s^{2}) (700(10)^{3} m)(1-\frac{700(10)^{3} m}{700(10)^{3} m+981.8(10)^{3} m})}$ (15)

Finally:

$V=1917.76 m/s$

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