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3 years ago

The sun is the centermost star of our solar system. a. True b. False

Physics

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Rina8888 [55]3 years ago

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I am pretty sure this is true

gulaghasi [49]3 years ago

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Answer:

Yes, it is true.

Explanation:

Sun is the centremost part of our solar system as all the planets revolve around the sun due to the gravitational pull between the sun and the planet. The gravitational force of sun holds the entire solar system together keeping everything such as planets, asteroids, comets, etc. in their particular orbits.

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Can you think of a scenario when the kinetic and gravitational potential energy could both be zero ? Describe or draw how this c

Inga [223]

Both kinetic and gravitational potential energy can become zero at infinite distance from the Earth.

Consider an object of mass m projected from the surface of the Earth with a velocity v.

The total energy of the body on the surface of the Earth is the sum of its kinetic energy $\frac{1}{2} mv^2$ and gravitational potential energy $-\frac{GMm}{R^2}$ .

here, M is the mass of the Earth, R is the radius of Earth and G is the universal gravitational constant.

The gravitational potential energy of the object is negative since it is in an attractive field, which is the gravitational field of the Earth.

The energy of the object on the surface of the earth is given by,

$E_i=\frac{1}{2} mv^2-\frac{GMm}{R^2}$

As the object rises upwards, it experiences deceleration due to the gravitational force of the Earth. Its velocity decreases and hence its kinetic energy decreases.

The decrease in kinetic energy is manifested as an equal increase in potential energy. The potential energy becomes less and less negative as more and more kinetic energy is converted into potential energy.

At a height h from the surface of the Earth, the energy of the object is given by,

$E_h=\frac{1}{2} mv_h^2-\frac{GMm}{(R+h)^2}$

The velocity $v_h$ is less than v.

When h =∞, the gravitational potential energy increases from a negative value to zero.

If the velocity of projection is adjusted in such a manner that the velocity decreases to zero at infinite distance from the earth, the object's kinetic energy also becomes equal to zero.

Thus, it is possible for both kinetic and potential energies to be zero at infinite distance from the Earth. In this case, kinetic energy decreases from a positive value to zero and the gravitational potential energy increases from a negative value to zero.

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3 years ago

A satellite orbits the earth a distance of 1.50 × 107 m above the planet's surface and takes 8.65 hours for each revolution abou

kupik [55]

Answer:

The acceleration of the satellite is $0.87 m/s^{2}$

Explanation:

The acceleration in a circular motion is defined as:

$a = \frac{v^{2}}{r}$ (1)

Where a is the centripetal acceleration, v the velocity and r is the radius.

The equation of the orbital velocity is defined as

$v = \frac{2 \pi r}{T}$ (2)

Where r is the radius and T is the period

For this particular case, the radius will be the sum of the high of the satellite ( $1.50x10^{7} m$ ) and the Earth radius ( $6.38x10^{6} m$ ) :

$r = 1.50x10^{7} m+6.38x10^{6}m$

$r = 21.38x10^{6}m$

Then, equation 2 can be used:

$T = 8.65 hrs \cdot \frac{3600 s}{1hrs}$ ⇒ $31140 s$

$v = \frac{2 \pi (21.38x10^{6}m)}{31140s}$

$v = 4313 m/s$

Finally equation 1 can be used:

$a = \frac{(4313m/s)^{2}}{21.38x10^{6}m}$

$a = 0.87 m/s^{2}$

Hence, the acceleration of the satellite is $0.87 m/s^{2}$

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3 years ago

You kick a ball with a speed of 14 m/s at an angle of 51°. How far away does the ball land?

In-s [12.5K]

-- The vertical component of the ball's velocity is 14 sin(51°) = 10.88 m/s

-- The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s².

-- The ball rises for 10.88/9.8 seconds, then stops rising, and drops for the
same amount of time before it hits the ground.

-- Altogether, the ball is in the air for (2 x 10.88)/(9.8) = 2.22 seconds
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-- The horizontal component of the ball's velocity is 14 cos(51°) = 8.81 m/s

-- At this speed, it covers a horizontal distance of (8.81) x (2.22) = 19.56 meters
before it hits the ground.

As usual when we're discussing this stuff, we completely ignore air resistance.

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3 years ago

What will happen to plant height if the amount of available light is reduced due to global dimming? Which type of investigation

Lorico [155]

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