Planetary orbits... are spaced more closely together as they get further from the Sun. are evenly spaced throughout the solar sy
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Answer:
E) are almost circular, with low eccentricities.
Explanation:
Kepler's laws establish that:
All the planets revolve around the Sun in an elliptic orbit, with the Sun in one of the focus (Kepler's first law).
A planet describes equal areas in equal times (Kepler's second law).
The square of the period of a planet will be proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit (Kepler's third law).
Where T is the period of revolution and a is the semi-major axis.
Planets orbit around the Sun in an ellipse with the Sun in one of the focus. Because of that, it is not possible to the Sun to be at the center of the orbit, as the statement on option "C" says.
However, those orbits have low eccentricities (remember that an eccentricity = 0 corresponds to a circle)
In some moments of their orbit, planets will be closer to the Sun (known as perihelion). According with Kepler's second law to complete the same area in the same time, they have to speed up at their perihelion and slow down at their aphelion (point farther from the Sun in their orbit).
Therefore, option A and B can not be true.
In the celestial sphere, the path that the Sun moves in a period of a year is called ecliptic, and planets pass very closely to that path.
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A) The work done by the electric field is zero
B) The work done by the electric field is
C) The work done by the electric field is
Explanation:
A)
The electric field applies a force on the charged particle: the direction of the force is the same as that of the electric field (for a positive charge).
The work done by a force is given by the equation
where
F is the magnitude of the force
d is the displacement of the particle
is the angle between the direction of the force and the direction of the displacement
In this problem, we have:
- The force is directed vertically upward (because the field is directed vertically upward)
- The charge moves to the right, so its displacement is to the right
This means that force and displacement are perpendicular to each other, so
and : therefore, the work done on the charge by the electric field is zero.
B)
In this case, the charge move upward (same direction as the electric field), so
and
Therefore, the work done by the electric force is
and we have:
is the magnitude of the electric force. Since
is the magnitude of the electric field
is the charge
The electric force is
The displacement of the particle is
d = 0.660 m
Therefore, the work done is
C)
In this case, the angle between the direction of the field (upward) and the displacement (45.0° downward from the horizontal) is
Moreover, we have:
(electric force calculated in part b)
While the displacement of the charge is
d = 2.50 m
Therefore, we can now calculate the work done by the electric force:
And the work is negative because the electric force is opposite direction to the displacement of the charge.
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