Answer:
The velocity
Explanation:
The difference between speed and velocity is the following:
- Speed is defined as the ratio between the total distance covered by an object and the time taken:
and it is a scalar.
In this problem, we cannot calculate the speed of the car, because we don't know exactly what is the distance covered by the car (we only know the distance between town A and town B, but we don't know if the car has travelled on a straight path or not, so we don't know the distance it has covered)
- Velocity is defined as the ratio between the displacement and the time taken:
(note that velocity is a vector)
Displacement is the shortest distance (straight line) between the final and the initial point of the motion: in this case, it corresponds to the distance between town A and town B, which we know. Since we also know the time of the trip, this means that we can calculate the velocity of the car.
Answer:
Explanation:
Muons in the atmosphere, a component of cosmic rays. Atmospheric muons are an essential component of cosmic ray showers. When a high energy primary particle coming from space collides with a nucleus of the upper atmosphere, it generates a spray of particles which later interact in their turn.
1) See attached figure
The relationship between charge and current is:
where
i is the current
Q is the charge
t is the time
Therefore, the current is the rate of change of the charge passing through a given point over time.
This means that for a graph of charge over time, the current is just equal to the slope of the graph.
For the graph in this problem:
- Between t = 0 and t = 2 s, the slope is
therefore the current is
i = 25 A
- Between t = 2 s and t = 6 s, the slope is
therefore the current is
i = -25 A
- Between t = 6 s and t = 8 s, the slope is
therefore the current is
i = 25 A
The figure attached show these values plotted on a graph.
2) 
The previous equation can be rewritten as
This equation is valid if the current is constant: if the current is not constant, then the total charge is simply equal to the area under a current vs time graph.
Here we have the current vs time graph, so we gave to find the area under it.
The area of the first triangle is:
While the area of the second square is
So, the total area (and the total charge) is
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If you dropped a ball from any height, and measured its distance from the ground at any regular interval while it's falling, the graph of that distance versus time would be a graph that curves downward.
-- The ball is falling down. As time goes on, it gets closer and closer to the ground. Its remaining distance from the ground keeps decreasing, so the line on the graph slopes down.
-- The speed of the ball keeps increasing (it accelerates) because of the gravitational force on it. As time goes on, it covers more of the remaining distance during each interval than it did in the previous interval. The downward slope of the graph keeps increasing.
