Explanation:
It is based upon the fact that " The light travels faster then sound." As the speed of light is faster then the speed of sound, light travels 300,000 km per second and sound travels 1192 km per hour. That is why we observe the lightening first and hear the the sound of thunder later.
You can do this experiment by yourself. Once you see the lightening start counting the seconds until you hear the sound of thunder.Then divide the seconds by 5, you will find out how many miles away the lightening strike was.
With the given values of 
, we have
Try dealing with the powers of 10 first: On the right, we have
Meanwhile, the other values on the right reduce to
Then taking units into account, we end up with the equation
Now we solve for 
:
or, if taking significant digits into account,
solid
Explanation:
because it has a definite shape and volume
It doesn't matter. If the slides are truly frictionless, then
your kinetic energy at the bottom will be equal to the
potential energy you had at the top, no matter what kind
of route you took getting down.
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The only way I can think of that it would make a difference
would be if the shallow slide were REALLY REALLY long,
and you didn't have anything to eat all the way down.
Then you might lose some weight while you're on the slide,
and your mass might be less at the bottom than it was at the
top. Then, in order to have the same kinetic energy at the
bottom, you'd need to be going a little bit faster.
But if it takes less than, say, two or three days, to go down the
long, shallow slide, then this effect would probably be too small
to make any difference.
That would be the epicenter.
