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3 years ago

Describe how the formation of a fault can result in an earthquake

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The plates beneath the Earth's surface are moving and also colliding with one another. These collisions cause compression of the rocks, resulting in the production of stress. Faults form and spread when the rocks can be compressed no more and they "break". This breakage releases energy and the energy is felt as seismic waves in an earthquake.

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Explanation:

In the given situation two forces are working. These are:

1) Electric force (acting in the downward direction) = qE

2) weight (acting in the downward direction) = mg

Therefore, work done by all the forces = change in kinetic energy

Hence, $qE \times S + mg \times S = 0.5 \times mv^{2}$

$1.6 \times 10^{-19} \times 1000 + 9.1 \times 10^{-31} \times 9.8 \times (\frac{0.10}{100}) = 0.5 \times 9.1 \times 10^{-31} \times v^{2}$

It is known that the weight of electron is far less compared to electric force. Therefore, we can neglect the weight and the above equation will be as follows.

$(1.6 \times 10^{-19} \times 1000) \times (\frac{0.10}{100}) = 0.5 \times 9.1 \times 10^{-31} \times v^{2
}$

v = $sqrt{\frac{1.6 \times 10^{-19}}{(0.5 \times 9.1 \times 10^{-31})}$

= 592999 m/s

Since, the electron is travelling downwards it means that it looses the potential energy.

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What is the frequency of a wave that has a speed of 5 m/s and a wavelength of 0.5meter?

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Explanation:

frequency =speed/wavelength

=5/0.5=10Hz

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A ball is droped from a height of 16m how much time will pass before the ball hits the ground

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Answer:

The time is 1.8s

Explanation:

The ball droped, will freely fall under gravity.

Hence we use free fall formula to calculate the time by the ball to hit the ground

$h= \frac{1}{2}g{t}^{2}$

Where h is the height from which the ball is droped, g is the acceleration due to gravity that acted on the ball, and t is the time taken by the ball to hit the ground.

From the question,

h=16m

Also, let take

$g = 9.8m{s}^{-2}$

By substitution we obtain,

$16= \frac{1}{2}\times 9.8{t}^{2}$

$\implies32=9.8{t}^{2}$

Diving through by 9.8

$\frac{32}{9.8}= \frac{ 9.8{t}^{2} }{9.8}$

$\implies{t}^{2} =3.265$

square root both sides, we obtain

$\implies t= \sqrt{3.265}$

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A small sphere with mass m is attached to a massless rod of length L that is pivoted at the top, forming a simple pendulum. The

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Answer:

a) see attached, a = g sin θ

c) v = √(2gL (1-cos θ))

Explanation:

In the attached we can see the forces on the sphere, which are the attention of the bar that is perpendicular to the movement and the weight of the sphere that is vertical at all times. To solve this problem, a reference system is created with one axis parallel to the bar and the other perpendicular to the rod, the weight of decomposing in this reference system and the linear acceleration is given by

Wₓ = m a

W sin θ = m a

a = g sin θ

b) The diagram is the same, the only thing that changes is the angle that is less

θ' = 9/2 θ

c) At this point the weight and the force of the bar are in the same line of action, so that at linear acceleration it is zero, even when the pendulum has velocity v, so it follows its path.

The easiest way to find linear speed is to use conservation of energy

Highest point

Em₀ = mg h = mg L (1-cos tea)

Lowest point

Emf = K = ½ m v²

Em₀ = Emf

g L (1-cos θ) = v² / 2

v = √(2gL (1-cos θ))

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