The answer is D) absorb most of the light that falls on them
A blackbody is an object that absorbs most (theoretically all) of the light that falls on it. Stars are called black bodies because they demonstrate something close to this property. Why do they appear white and not black? As black body radiators heat up, they slowly turn from black to grey to white, according to the human eye. Since stars are incredibly hot, they appear white to us.
Answer:
the ball's velocity was approximately 0.66 m/s
Explanation:
Recall that we can study the motion of the baseball rolling off the table in vertical component and horizontal component separately.
Since the velocity at which the ball was rolling is entirely in the horizontal direction, it doesn't affect the vertical motion that can therefore be studied as a free fall, where only the constant acceleration of gravity is affecting the vertical movement.
Then, considering that the ball, as it falls covers a vertical distance of 0.7 meters to the ground, we can set the equation of motion for this, and estimate the time the ball was in the air:
0.7 = (1/2) g t^2
solve for t:
t^2 = 1.4 / g
t = 0.3779 sec
which we can round to about 0.38 seconds
No we use this time in the horizontal motion, which is only determined by the ball's initial velocity (vi) as it takes off:
horizontal distance covered = vi * t
0.25 = vi * (0.38)
solve for vi:
vi = 0.25/0.38 m/s
vi = 0.65798 m/s
Then the ball's velocity was approximately 0.66 m/s
