Consider velocity to the right as positive.
First mass:
m₁ = 4.0 kg
v₁ = 2.0 m/s to the right
Second mass:
m₂ = 8.0 kg
v₂ = -3.0 m/s to the left
Total momentum of the system is
P = m₁v₁ + m₂v₂
= 4*2 + 8*(-3)
= -16 (kg-m)/s
Let v (m/s) be the velocity of the center of mass of the 2-block system.
Because momentum of the system is preserved, therefore
(m₁+m₂)v= -16
(4+8 kg)*(v m/s) = -16 (kg-m)/s
v = -1.333 m/s
Answer:
The center of mass is moving at 1.33 m/s to the left.
C. The force is a constant change, because her position on the Ferris wheel will constantly change. I believe this is the answer, but use sources to double check. I might use different vocab. then your teachers.
The unmagnetized pieces of iron would be randomly pointing to directions, this is true because although influenced with the magnetic domain, the direction of the unmagnetized iron field of attraction is not uniform or does not have preferred direction.
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The pivot point of a LEVER is called the fulcrum.
Ok, this is a 2d kinematics problem, the falls 14 m part is confusing, I think it means in the x direction, but you don't need it anyway.
If we know it goes 4m into the air, we know d = 4m (height of wall), we also know the acceleration a=-9.8m/s^2 (because gravity) and that the vertical velocity when it just clears the wall will be 0 m/s, which we'll call our final velocity (Vf). Using Vf^2 = Vi^2 +2a*d, we can solve this for Vi and drop Vf because it's zero to get: Vi = sqrt(-2ad), plug in numbers (don't forget a is negative) and you get 8.85 m/s in the vertical direction. The x-direction velocity requires that we solve the y-direction for time, using Vf= Vi + at, we solve for t, getting t= -Vi/a, plug in numbers t= -8.85/-9.8 = 0.9 s. Now we can use the simple v = d/t (because x-direction has no acceleration (a=0)), and plug in the distance to the wall and the time it takes to get there v = (4/.9) = 4.444 m/s, this is the velocity in the x direction, we use Pythagoras' theorem to find the total velocity, Vtotal = sqrt(Vx^2 + Vy^2), so Vtotal = sqrt(8.85^2+4.444^2) = 9.9m/s. Yay physics!
