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3 years ago

What is the state of an object accelerating due to the force of gravity alone?

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Marysya12 [62]3 years ago

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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:

$F=ma$

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 $g=9.8 m/s^2$ , the acceleration due to gravity, and it is constant. So, the object is moving by uniformly accelerated motion.

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Answer:

Answer D : about 1067 meters

Explanation:

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1) First find the time it takes the plane to stop using the equation for the acceleration:

$a=\frac{Vf-Vi}{t}$

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A bug flying horizontally at 0.65 m/s collides and sticks to the end of a uniform stick hanging vertically. After the impact, th

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$L=I\omega$

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$L_i=L_f$

Where $L_i$ is initial momentum

$L_f$ is the final momentum

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$\omega=\frac{1}{2l}$

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$\frac{1}{2}(I_b+I_s)\omega^2=mgh+10mgh'$

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$l=\frac{13}{0.54g}$

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