Spaceship 1 and spaceship 2 have equal masses of 150kg. Spaceship 1 has the speed of 0 m/s and spaceship 2 has a speed of 6 m/s.
1 answer:
Answer:
3 m/s
Explanation:
The computation of speed is shown below:-
We will compute the equation by using the law of conservation of momentum; also, the total momentum prior and following the collision must be conserved. Therefore we can write the equation is the following manner:-
where the symbols represent
150 kg is the mass of spaceship 1 = m1
150 kg is the mass of spaceship 2 = m2
0 m/s is the initial velocity of spaceship 1 = u1
6 m/s is the initial velocity of spaceship 2 = u2
and v is the velocity of the 2 ships so that they can collide and combined together
For v we will get the following equation to reach the speed
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Explanation:
- When standing on the bathroom scale within the moving elevator, there are two forces acting on Henry's mass: Normal force and gravity.
- Gravity is always downward, and normal force is perpendicular to the surface on which the mass is located (the bathroom scale), in upward direction.
- Normal force, can adopt any value needed to match the acceleration of the mass, according to Newton's 2nd Law.
- Gravity (which we call weight near the Earth's surface) can be calculated as follows:
- According to Newton's 2nd Law, it must be met the following condition:
- As the gravity is larger than normal force, this means that the acceleration is downward, so, we choose this direction as the positive.
- Solving for a, we get:
- We can find the speed after the first 3.8 s (assuming a is constant), applying the definition of acceleration as the rate of change of velocity:
- Now, if during the next 3.8 s, normal force is 930 N (same as the weight), this means that both forces are equal each other, so net force is 0.
- According to Newton's 2nd Law, if net force is 0, the object is either or at rest, or moving at a constant speed.
- As the elevator was moving, the only choice is that it is moving at a constant speed, the same that it had when the scale was read for the first time, i.e., 4 m/s downward.