The radius of the Earth is about 3,960 miles.
That's how far the center of the Earth is straight down under your feet.
It's farther than the distance all the way across the USA, from New York
to Los Angeles. It's like the distance from London (England) to Chicago.
If you drill absolutely straight and aim straight down, that's how far
you need to drill to reach the center. Unfortunately, your drill will melt
long before you get there.
The longest hole ever drilled into the Earth (so far) is the Sakhalin-I Oduptu Well,
drilled by Russia into the sea-bottom in 2011.
That hole is 40,502 feet ... roughly 7.67 miles, or about 0.0019 of the distance
to the center of the Earth. You can see that we still have quite a long way to go !
Refer to the diagram shown below.
u = 0, the initial vertical velocity
Assume g = 9.8 m/s² and ignore air resistance.
At the first stage of landing on the ground, the distance traveled is
h = 3.1 - 0.6 = 2.5 m.
If v = the vertical velocity at this stage, then
v² = u² + 2gh
v² = 2*(9.8 m/s²)*(2.5 m) = 49 (m/s)²
v = 7 m/s
At the second stage of landing on the ground, let a = the acceleration (actually deceleration) that his body provides to come to rest.
The distance traveled is 0.6 m.
Therefore
0 = (7 m/s)² + 2(a m/s²)*(0.6 m)
a = - 49/1.2 = - 40.833 m/s²
Answers:
(a) The velocity when the man first touches the ground is 7.0 m/s.
(b) The acceleration is -40.83 m/s² (deceleration of 40.83 m/s²) to come to rest within 0.6 m.
It is bad because humans are destroying the planet with pollution and cutting down natural habitats. This is not only killing the human population in the future, but as of right now they are killing animals, and trees. The human population is slowly destroying the planet.
A phase change is occuring; the liquid water is changing to gaseous water, or steam. On a molecular level, the intermolecular forces between the water molecules are decreasing. The heat is providing enough energy for the water molecules to overcome these attractive forces.
Are you asking about independent and dependent variables?