Quoting from the article itself:
"Since it is above Earth's atmosphere, it gives us clearer pictures of space than telescopes on Earth can."
We know the equation
weight = mass × gravity
To work out the weight on the moon, we will need its mass, and the gravitational field strength of the moon.
Remember that your weight can change, but mass stays constant.
So using the information given about the earth weight, we can find the mass by substituting 100N for weight, and we know the gravity on earth is 10Nm*2 (Use the gravitational field strength provided by your school, I am assuming yours in 10Nm*2)
Therefore,
100N = mass × 10
mass= 100N/10
mass= 10 kg
Now, all we need are the moon's gravitational field strength and to apply this to the equation
weight = 10kg × (gravity on moon)
Answer:
U = 1 / r²
Explanation:
In this exercise they do not ask for potential energy giving the expression of force, since these two quantities are related
F = - dU / dr
this derivative is a gradient, that is, a directional derivative, so we must have
dU = - F. dr
the esxresion for strength is
F = B / r³
let's replace
∫ dU = - ∫ B / r³ dr
in this case the force and the displacement are parallel, therefore the scalar product is reduced to the algebraic product
let's evaluate the integrals
U - Uo = -B (- / 2r² + 1 / 2r₀²)
To complete the calculation we must fix the energy at a point, in general the most common choice is to make the potential energy zero (Uo = 0) for when the distance is infinite (r = ∞)
U = B / 2r²
we substitute the value of B = 2
U = 1 / r²
Answer:
b. 4 ms-2
Explanation:
acceleration = velocity / time
