What is the state of an object accelerating due to the force of gravity alone?
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Answer:
Its state is in uniformly accelerated motion
Explanation:
When an object is acted upon the force of gravity only, we said that the object is in free fall.
According to Newton's second law of motion:
where F is the net force on an object, m is its mass, a its acceleration, when the net force on an object (F) is non-zero, than the object accelerates (because a is non-zero), so the object is in accelerated motion.
In case of free fall, the rate of acceleration of the object is equal to , the acceleration due to gravity, and it is constant. So, the object is moving by uniformly accelerated motion.
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Answer:
D)Not enough information
Explanation:
According to Pascal's principle, the pressure exerted on the two pistons is equal:
Pressure is given by the ratio between force F and area A, so we can write
The force exerted on each piston is just equal to the weight of the corresponding mass: , where m is the mass and g is the gravitational acceleration. So the equation becomes
Now we can rewrite the mass as the product of volume, V, times density, d:
We also know that
So we can further re-arrange the equation (and simplify g as well):
We are also told that block B has bigger volume than block A: . However, this information is not enough to allow us to say if the fraction on the right is greater than 1 or smaller than 1: therefore, we cannot conclude anything about the densities of the two objects.