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An amusement park ride raises people high into the air, suspends them for a moment, and then drops them at a rate of free-fall a

blsea [12.9K]

Answer: apparent weighlessness.

Explanation:

1) Balance of forces on a person falling:

i) To answer this question we will deal with the assumption of non-drag force (abscence of air).

ii) When a person is dropped, and there is not air resistance, the only force acting on the person's body is the Earth's gravitational attraction (downward), which is the responsible for the gravitational acceleration (around 9.8 m/s²).

iii) Under that sceneraio, there is not normal force acting on the person (the normal force is the force that the floor or a chair exerts on a body to balance the gravitational force when the body is on it).

2) This is, the person does not feel a pressure upward, which is he/she does not feel the weight: freefalling is a situation of apparent weigthlessness.

3) True weightlessness is when the object is in a place where there exists not grativational acceleration: for example a point between two planes where the grativational forces are equal in magnitude but opposing in direction and so they cancel each other.

Therefore, you conclude that, assuming no air resistance, a person in this ride experiencing apparent weightlessness.

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Kayla drew two ray diagrams to compare the behavior of light rays.

Naddika [18.5K]

The answer is the last option

Explanation:

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Car A (mass 1100 kg) is stopped at a traffic light when it is rearended by car B(mass 1400 kg). Both cars then slide with locke

viva [34]

Answer:

Part a)

$v_a = 3.94 m/s$

Part b)

$v_b = 3.35 m/s$

Part C)

$v_b = 6.44 m/s$

Part d)

Due to large magnitude of friction between road and the car the momentum conservation may not be valid here as momentum conservation is valid only when external force on the system is zero.

Explanation:

Part a)

As we know that car A moves by distance 6.1 m after collision under the frictional force

so the deceleration due to friction is given as

$a = -\frac{F_f}{m}$

$a = -\frac{\mu mg}{m}$

$a = - \mu g$

now we will have

$v_f^2 - v_i^2 = 2ad$

$0 - v_i^2 = 2(-\mu g)(6.1)$

$v_a = \sqrt{(2(0.13)(9.81)(6.1)}$

$v_a = 3.94 m/s$

Part b)

Similarly for car B the distance of stop is given as 4.4 m

so we will have

$v_b = \sqrt{2(0.13)(9.81)(4.4)}$

$v_b = 3.35 m/s$

Part C)

By momentum conservation we will have

$m_1v_{1i} = m_1v_{1f} + m_2v_{2f}$

$1400 v_b = 1100(3.94) + 1400(3.35)$

$v_b = 6.44 m/s$

Part d)

Due to large magnitude of friction between road and the car the momentum conservation may not be valid here as momentum conservation is valid only when external force on the system is zero.

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A 12-volt automotive circuit has a current of 3 amps. Technician A says the electric power in this circuit is 36 watts. Technici

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Answer:

Technician A is right.

Explanation:

Given that,

Voltage of circuit, V = 12 volt

Current in the circuit, I = 3 A

Technician A says the electric power in this circuit is 36 watts. Technician B says the electric power in this circuit is 4 watts. We need to say that which technician is correct.

The power of any circuit is given by :

$P=V\times I$