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Define Newton’s three laws of motion and how they apply to everyday situations.

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1. By Ilkka Cheema2. Newton’s 1st Law  The first law of motion sates that an object will not change its speed or direction unless an unbalanced force (a force which is distant from the reference point) affects it. Another name for the first law of motion is the law of inertia. If balanced forces act on an object it doesn’t accelerate or change direction. This means it doesn’t change its velocity and it doesn’t have momentum.3. Examples of Newton’s 1st Law  If you slide a hockey puck on ice, eventually it will stop, because of friction on the ice. It will also stop if it hits something, like a player’s stick or a goalpost.  If you kicked a ball in space, it would keep going forever, because there is no gravity, friction or air resistance going against it. It will only stop going in one direction if it hits something like a meteorite or reaches the gravity field of another planet.  If you are driving in your car at a very high speed and hit something, like a brick wall or a tree, the car will come to an instant stop, but you will keep moving forward. This is why cars have airbags, to protect you from smashing into the windscreen.4. Newton’s 2nd Law  The second law of motion states that acceleration is produced when an unbalanced force acts on an object (mass). The more mass the object has the more net force has to be used to move it.5. Examples of Newton’s 2nd Law  If you use the same force to push a truck and push a car, the car will have more acceleration than the truck, because the car has less mass.  It is easier to push an empty shopping cart than a full one, because the full shopping cart has more mass than the empty one. This means that more force is required to push the full shopping cart.6. Newton’s 3rd Law The third law of motion sates that for every action there is a an equal and opposite reaction that acts with the same momentum and the opposite velocity.7. Examples of Newton’s 3rd Law  When you jump off a small rowing boat into water, you will push yourself forward towards the water. The same force you used to push forward will make the boat move backwards.  When air rushes out of a balloon, the opposite reaction is that the balloon flies up.  When you dive off of a diving board, you push down on the springboard. The board springs back and forces you into the air.

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I NEED HELP PLEASE, THANKS! Describe each Newton Law. :)

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Explanation:

1st- states that when two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.

2nd- states that the time rate of change of the momentum of a body is equal in both magnitude and direction to the force imposed on it. (most important law)

3rd- states that when two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. (law of action/reaction)

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Explaining How Momentum Can Cause

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The astronaut can throw the hammer in a direction away from the space station. While he is holding the hammer, the total momentum of the astronaut and hammer is 0 kg • m/s. According to the law of conservation of momentum, the total momentum after he throws the hammer must still be 0 kg • m/s. In order for momentum to be conserved, the astronaut will have to move in the opposite direction of the hammer, which will be toward the space station.

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The average speed between earth and the sun is 1.50 x10^8 km. Calculate the average speed of the Earth in its orbit in kilometer

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Answer:

The average speed of the earth in its orbit is $29.86km/s$

Explanation:

The average distance between the Earth and the Sun is $1.50x10^{8} km$ .

The average speed of the earth in its orbit can be found by the next equation :

$v = \frac{2 \pi r}{T}$ (1)

Where r is the radius and T is the period.

In this case, the orbit of the Earth can be considered as a circle

( $r = 1.50x10^{8}km$ ) instead of an ellipse.

It takes 1 year to the Earth to make one revolution around the Sun. Therefore, its period will be 365.25 days.

Notice that to express the period in terms of seconds, the following is needed:

$365.25d . \frac{86400s}{1d}$ ⇒ $31557600s$

Then, equation 1 can be used:

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Answer: Pros and cons okay

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Pros: Produces no polluting gases. Waste is radioactive and safe disposal is very difficult and expensive.

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Cons: Waste is radioactive and safe disposal is very difficult and expensive.

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One of the factors that determines the ? of a capacitor is the frequency measured in hertz.

ycow [4]

Answer:

Reactance

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In an AC circuit, the capacitive reactance of a capacitor is given by:

$X_C = \frac{1}{2 \pi f C}$

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f is the frequency of the AC current

C is the capacitance of the capacitor

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- When the frequency of the AC current is zero (this means, we are in regime of DC current), the reactance becomes infinite, and this is true because the capacitor does not let the current pass through it)

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