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3 years ago

What two kinds of crust are involved in a subduction zone

Physics

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Anarel [89]3 years ago

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Answer:

Oceanic crust and continental crust

Explanation:

A subduction zone is normally between oceanic crust which is made of basalt and continental crust which is made of granite. Oceanic crust is denser than continental crust. So when oceanic crust collides with continental crusts, it subsducts underneath the continental crust since it is denser.

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(Note that the units cancel out so you get the answer)

The final answer is 1,200 m.

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A proton that has a mass m and is moving at 270 m/s in the i hat direction undergoes a head-on elastic collision with a stationa

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Answer:

$V_p = 267.258 m/s$

$V_n = 38.375 m/s$

Explanation:

using the law of the conservation of the linear momentum:

$P_i = P_f$

where $P_i$ is the inicial momemtum and $P_f$ is the final momentum

the linear momentum is calculated by the next equation

P = MV

where M is the mass and V is the velocity.

so:

$P_i = m(270 m/s)$

$P_f = mV_P + M_nV_n$

where m is the mass of the proton and $V_p$ is the velocity of the proton after the collision, $M_n$ is the mass of the nucleus and $V_n$ is the velocity of the nucleus after the collision.

therefore, we can formulate the following equation:

m(270 m/s) = m $V_p$ + 14m $V_n$

then, m is cancelated and we have:

270 = $V_p$ + $14V_n$

This is a elastic collision, so the kinetic energy K is conservated. Then:

$K_i = \frac{1}{2}MV^2 = \frac{1}{2}m(270)^2$

and

Kf = $\frac{1}{2}mV_p^2 +\frac{1}{2}(14m)V_n^2$

then,

$\frac{1}{2}m(270)^2$ = $\frac{1}{2}mV_p^2 +\frac{1}{2}(14m)V_n^2$

here we can cancel the m and get:

$\frac{1}{2}(270)^2$ = $\frac{1}{2}V_p^2 +\frac{1}{2}(14)V_n^2$

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270 = $V_p$ + $14V_n$ (eq. 1)

$\frac{1}{2}(270)^2$ = $\frac{1}{2}V_p^2 +\frac{1}{2}(14)V_n^2$

in the second equation, we have:

36450 = $\frac{1}{2}V_p^2 +\frac{1}{2}(14)V_n^2$ (eq. 2)

from this last equation we solve for $V_n$ as:

$V_n = \sqrt{\frac{36450-\frac{1}{2}V_p^2 }{\frac{1}{2} } }$

and replace in the other equation as:

270 = $V_p +$ 14 $\sqrt{\frac{36450-\frac{1}{2}V_p^2 }{\frac{1}{2} } }$

so,

$V_p = -267.258 m/s$

Vp is negative because the proton go in the -i hat direction.

Finally, replacing this value on eq. 1 we get:

$V_n = \frac{270+267.258}{14}$

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Incomplete question. Missing part:

"it took him 10 seconds to move the couch. What was his power?"

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The power developed is given by:

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where

W is the work done

t is the time taken

In this problem,

W = 500 J

t = 10.0 s

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