Suppose that a comet that was seen in 563 A.D. by Chinese astronomers was spotted again in year 1951. Assume the time between ob
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Answer:
Explanation:
The period of the comet is the time it takes to do a complete orbit:
T=1951-(-563)=2514 years
writen in seconds:
Since the eccentricity is greater than 0 but lower than 1 you can know that the trajectory is an ellipse.
Therefore, if the mass of the sun is aprox. 1.99e30 kg, and you assume it to be much larger than the mass of the comet, you can use Kepler's law of periods to calculate the semimajor axis:
Then, using the law of orbits, you can calculate the greatest distance from the sun, which is called aphelion:
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C) 7.35*10⁶ N/C radially outward
Explanation:
- If we apply the Gauss'law, to a spherical gaussian surface with radius r=7 cm, due to the symmetry, the electric field must be normal to the surface, and equal at all points along it.
- So, we can write the following equation:
- As the electric field must be zero inside the conducting spherical shell, this means that the charge enclosed by a spherical gaussian surface of a radius between 4 and 5 cm, must be zero too.
- So, the +8 μC charge of the solid conducting sphere of radius 2cm, must be compensated by an equal and opposite charge on the inner surface of the conducting shell of total charge -4 μC.
- So, on the outer surface of the shell there must be a charge that be the difference between them:
- Replacing in (1) A = 4*π*ε₀, and Qenc = +4 μC, we can find the value of E, as follows:
- As the charge that produces this electric field is positive, and the electric field has the same direction as the one taken by a positive test charge under the influence of this field, the direction of the field is radially outward, away from the positive charge.