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3 years ago

Why did most scientist reject wegeners theory for nearly a half century

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He couldn't provide as much satisfactory explaining for the force that pushes or pulls the continents also because it contradicted their ideas about how mountains form.

SOVA2 [1]3 years ago

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I think they were also too skeptic to believe the ocean did move or pull apart, even today do you believe that the continents broke from one big flat plate, and that they pulled apart? They also wonder what large force would be responsible for the movement.

It was much later that evidences from plant and animal features that had similarity from two different planets came up that scientists began accepting the idea of continental drift.
And similar rock strata from two different opposite continents, showed similar rock strata.
All these evidences came up much later after Alfred Wengener.

So Alfred Wengener was honored Posthumously.

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A horizontal 826 N merry-go-round of radius 1.17 m is started from rest by a constant horizontal force of 57.8 N applied tangent

Julli [10]

Answer:

The kinetic energy of the merry-go-round is $\bf{475.47~J}$ .

Explanation:

Given:

Weight of the merry-go-round, $W_{g} = 826~N$

Radius of the merry-go-round, $r = 1.17~m$

the force on the merry-go-round, $F = 57.8~N$

Acceleration due to gravity, $g= 9.8~m.s^{-2}$

Time given, $t=3.47~s$

Mass of the merry-go-round is given by

$m &=& \dfrac{W_{g}}{g}\\~~~~&=& \dfrac{826~N}{9.8~m.s^{-2}}\\~~~~&=& 84.29~Kg$

Moment of inertial of the merry-go-round is given by

$I &=& \dfrac{1}{2}mr^{2}\\~~~&=& \dfrac{1}{2}(84.29~Kg)(1.17~m)^{2}\\~~~&=& 57.69~Kg.m^{2}$

Torque on the merry-go-round is given by

$\tau &=& F.r\\~~~&=& (57.8~N)(1.17~m)\\~~~&=& 67.63~N.m$

The angular acceleration is given by

$\alpha &=& \dfrac{\tau}{I}\\~~~&=& \dfrac{67.63~N.m}{57.69~Kg.m^{2}}\\~~~&=& 1.17~rad.s^{-2}$

The angular velocity is given by

$\omega &=& \alpha.t\\~~~&=& (1.17~rad.s^{-2})(3.47~s)\\~~~&=& 4.06~rad.s^{-1}$

The kinetic energy of the merry-go-round is given by

$E &=& \dfrac{1}{2}I\omega^{2}\\~~~&=&\dfrac{1}{2}(57.69~Kg.m^{2})(4.06~rad.s^{-1})^{2}\\~~~&=& 475.47~J$

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The idea that earth was the center of the universe is an example of ---that has been long dicarded

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Answer:

Geocentric model of the universe

Explanation:

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This belief was propagated by the ancient Greeks. The geocentric model of the universe was proposed by Ptolemy.

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What motion makes the acceleration unchanged?

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The acceleration is equal to the net force divided by the mass. If the net force acting on an object doubles, its acceleration is doubled. If the mass is doubled, then acceleration will be halved. If both the net force and the mass are doubled, the acceleration will be unchanged.

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A ball is thrown vertically down from the edge of a cliff with a speed of 4 m/s, how high is the cliff, if it took 12 s for the

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Initial velocity of the ball;

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