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Please help me what defines the above collision as being elastic?

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A perfectly elastic collision is defined as one in which there is no loss of kinetic energy in the collision. ... Momentum is conserved in inelastic collisions, but one cannot track the kinetic energy through the collision since some of it is converted to other forms of energy.

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Can you explain that gravity pulls us to the Earth & can you calculate weight from masses on both on Earth and other planets

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I don't actually understand what your question is, but I'll dance around the subject
for a while, and hope that you get something out of it.

-- The effect of gravity is: There's a pair of forces, in both directions, between
every two masses.

-- The strength of the force depends on the product of the masses, so it doesn't matter whether there's a big one and a small one, or whether they're nearly equal.
It's the product that counts. Bigger product ==> stronger force, in direct proportion.

-- The strength of the forces also depends on the distance between the objects' centers. More distance => weaker force. Actually, (more distance)² ==> weaker force.

-- The forces are equal in both directions. Your weight on Earth is exactly equal to
the Earth's weight on you. You can prove that. Turn your bathroom scale face down
and stand on it. Now it's measuring the force that attracts the Earth toward you.
If you put a little mirror down under the numbers, you'll see that it's the same as
the force that attracts you toward the Earth when the scale is right-side-up.

-- When you (or a ball) are up on the roof and step off, the force of gravity that pulls
you (or the ball) toward the Earth causes you (or the ball) to accelerate (fall) toward the Earth.
Also, the force that attracts the Earth toward you (or the ball) causes the Earth to accelerate (fall) toward you (or the ball).
The forces are equal. But since the Earth has more mass than you have, you accelerate toward the Earth faster than the Earth accelerates toward you.

-- This works exactly the same for every pair of masses in the universe. Gravity
is everywhere. You can't turn it off, and you can't shield anything from it.

-- Sometimes you'll hear about some mysterious way to "defy gravity". It's not possible to 'defy' gravity, but since we know that it's there, we can work with it.
If we want to move something in the opposite direction from where gravity is pulling it, all we need to do is provide a force in that direction that's stronger than the force of gravity.
I know that sounds complicated, so here are a few examples of how we do it:
-- use arm-muscle force to pick a book UP off the table
-- use leg-muscle force to move your whole body UP the stairs
-- use buoyant force to LIFT a helium balloon or a hot-air balloon
-- use the force of air resistance to LIFT an airplane.

-- The weight of 1 kilogram of mass on or near the Earth is 9.8 newtons. (That's
about 2.205 pounds). The same kilogram of mass has different weights on other planets. Wherever it is, we only know one of the masses ... the kilogram. In order
to figure out what it weighs there, we need to know the mass of the planet, and
the distance between the kilogram and the center of the planet.

I hope I told you something that you were actually looking for.

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3 years ago

Usain Bolt's world-record 100 m sprint on August 16, 2009, has been analyzed in detail. At the start of the race, the 94.0 kg Bo

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a) 893 N

b) 8.5 m/s

c) 3816 W

d) 69780 J

e) 8030 W

Explanation:

The net force acting on Bolt during the acceleration phase can be written using Newton's second law of motion:

$F_{net}=ma$

where

m is Bolt's mass

a is the acceleration

In the first 0.890 s of motion, we have

m = 94.0 kg (Bolt's mass)

$a=9.50 m/s^2$ (acceleration)

So, the net force is

$F_{net}=(94.0)(9.50)=893 N$

And according to Newton's third law of motion, this force is equivalent to the force exerted by Bolt on the ground (because they form an action-reaction pair).

Since Bolt's motion is a uniformly accelerated motion, we can find his final speed by using the following suvat equation:

$v=u+at$

where

v is the final speed

u is the initial speed

a is the acceleration

t is the time

In the first phase of Bolt's race we have:

u = 0 m/s (he starts from rest)

$a=9.50 m/s^2$ (acceleration)

t = 0.890 s (duration of the first phase)

Solving for v,

$v=0+(9.50)(0.890)=8.5 m/s$

First of all, we can calculate the work done by Bolt to accelerate to a speed of

v = 8.5 m/s

According to the work-energy theorem, the work done is equal to the change in kinetic energy, so

$W=K_f - K_i = \frac{1}{2}mv^2-0$

where

m = 94.0 kg is Bolt's mass

v = 8.5 m/s is Bolt's final speed after the first phase

$K_i = 0 J$ is the initial kinetic energy

So the work done is

$W=\frac{1}{2}(94.0)(8.5)^2=3396 J$

The power expended is given by

$P=\frac{W}{t}$

where

t = 0.890 s is the time elapsed

Substituting,

$P=\frac{3396}{0.890}=3816 W$

First of all, we need to find what is the average force exerted by Bolt during the remaining 8.69 s of motion.

In the first 0.890 s, the force exerted was

$F_1=893 N$

We know that the average force for the whole race is

$F_{avg}=820 N$

Which can be rewritten as

$F_{avg}=\frac{0.890 F_1 + 8.69 F_2}{0.890+8.69}$

And solving for $F_2$ , we find the average force exerted by Bolt on the ground during the second phase:

$F_{avg}=\frac{0.890 F_1 + 8.69 F_2}{0.890+8.69}\\F_2=\frac{(0.890+8.69)F_{avg}-0.890F_1}{8.69}=812.5 N$

The net force exerted by Bolt during the second phase can be written as

$F_{net}=F_2-D$ (1)

where D is the air drag.

The net force can also be rewritten as

$F_{net}=ma$

where

$a=\frac{v-u}{t}$ is the acceleration in the second phase, with

u = 8.5 m/s is the initial speed

v = 12.4 m/s is the final speed

t = 8.69 t is the time elapsed

Substituting,

$a=\frac{12.4-8.5}{8.69}=0.45 m/s^2$

So we can now find the average drag force from (1):

$D=F_2-F_{net}=F_2-ma=812.5 - (94.0)(0.45)=770.2 N$

So the increase in Bolt's internal energy is just equal to the work done by the drag force, so:

$\Delta E=W=Ds$

where

d is Bolt's displacement in the second part, which can be found by using suvat equation:

$s=\frac{v^2-u^2}{2a}=\frac{12.4^2-8.5^2}{2(0.45)}=90.6 m$

And so,

$\Delta E=Ds=(770.2)(90.6)=69780 J$

The power that Bolt must expend just to voercome the drag force is given by

$P=\frac{\Delta E}{t}$

where

$\Delta E$ is the increase in internal energy due to the air drag

t is the time elapsed

Here we have:

$\Delta E=69780 J$

t = 8.69 s is the time elapsed

Substituting,

$P=\frac{69780}{8.69}=8030 W$

And we see that it is about twice larger than the power calculated in part c.

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Answer:

Fr^2 = 75.9N+105.8N=181.7

Fr = 181.7N.

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