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3 years ago

What element is used as a source of radiation in smoke detectors?

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mart [117]3 years ago

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Americium ( A source of alpha radiation to detect and identify smoke.)

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A man attaches a divider to an outdoor faucet so that water flows through a single pipe of radius 9.25 mm into four pipes, each

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Answer:

1.24 m/s

Explanation:

Metric unit conversion:

9.25 mm = 0.00925 m

5 mm = 0.005 m

The volume rate that flow through the single pipe is

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This volume rate should be constant and divided into the 4 narrower pipes, each of them would have a volume rate of

$\dot{V_n} = \dot{V} / 4 = 0.00039 / 4 = 9.74\times10^{-5} m^3/s$

So the flow speed of each of the narrower pipe is:

$v_n = \frac{\dot{V_n}}{A_n} = \frac{\dot{V_n}}{\pi r_n^2}$

$v_n = \frac{9.74\times10^{-5}}{\pi 0.005^2} = 1.24 m/s$

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A 14.3-g bullet is fired into a 5.21 kg block of wood. The block is attached to a spring that has a spring force constant of 450

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Answer:

The initial speed of the bullet is $v_{o} = 889.199\,\frac{m}{s}$ .

Explanation:

The collision between bullet and block is inelastic and let suppose that motion occurs on a horizontal surface, so that changes in gravitational potential energy can be neglected. Initially, the intial speed of the bullet-block system can be determined with the help of the Work-Energy Theorem and the Principle of Energy Conservation:

$K = U_{k} + W_{loss}$

$\frac{1}{2}\cdot (5.224\,kg)\cdot v^{2} = \frac{1}{2}\cdot \left(450\,\frac{N}{m}\right)\cdot (0.22\,m)^{2} + (0.35)\cdot (5.224\,kg)\cdot \left(9.807\,\frac{m}{s^{2}} \right) \cdot (0.22\,m)$

The initial speed of the bullet-block system is:

$v \approx 2.383\,\frac{m}{s}$

Now, the initial speed of the bullet is determined by applying the Principle of Momentum Conservation:

$(0.014\,kg)\cdot v_{o} = (5.224\,kg)\cdot \left(2.383\,\frac{m}{s} \right)$

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