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2 years ago

Is it possible to have negative velocity but positive acceleration? If so, what would this mean?

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Observe that the object below moves in the negative direction with a changing velocity. An object which moves in the negative direction has a negative velocity. If the object is slowing down then its acceleration vector is directed in the opposite direction as its motion (in this case, a positive acceleration). The dot diagram shows that each consecutive dot is not the same distance apart (i.e., a changing velocity). The position-time graph shows that the slope is changing (meaning a changing velocity) and negative (meaning a negative velocity). The velocity-time graph shows a line with a positive (upward) slope (meaning that there is a positive acceleration); the line is located in the negative region of the graph (corresponding to a negative velocity). The acceleration-time graph shows a horizontal line in the positive region of the graph (meaning a positive acceleration).

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To solve for force, you need to get the product of mass and acceleration.
F = ma

Your given is:
m = 150g
a = ?
v = 50 m/s
t = 20ms

As you can see, you do not have acceleration yet. But if you read the problem you can come up with the formula of acceleration.
Acceleration is the change in velocity over a period of time.

a = change in velocity/time

To get the change in velocity, you get the difference between the initial velocity and final velocity:

$a = \frac{vf-vi}{t}$

The ball was moving initially at a velocity of 50 m/s and it came to a stop. This is your clue. If a ball comes to a stop then that means that the final velocity of the ball is 0 m/s.

So we can put it into our formula now:

$a = \frac{0m/s-50m/s}{20ms}$

WAIT! As you can see, the units do not match. We have ms and s into our equation and that means you cannot proceed till they are the same. First we need to convert ms to s.

$20ms$ x $\frac{1s}{1000ms}$ = $\frac{20s}{1000} = 0.02s$

So your new time is 0.02s. Now we put this time into the formula:

$a = \frac{0m/s-50m/s}{0.02s}$
$a = \frac{-50m/s}{0.02s} = -2,500 m/ s^{2}$

As you can see our acceleration is a negative value, this indicates that it decelerated or slowed down which makes sense because it was brought to a stop.

So now we have our acceleration. Now using this, we can get our force.

$F= ma$

Before we start doing this, you need to take note that the unit of force is N, but when you expand it, it is $kg.m/ s^{2}$ but as you can see our mass given is in grams. So again, before you put them into the equation we need to change it into kg first.

$150g = \frac{1kg}{1,000g} = \frac{150kg}{1,000} = 0.150kg$

Our new mass is 0.150kg.

To make things clearer, let us write down all our new values:

m = 0.150kg
a = -2,500 $m/ s^{2}$

Now that all our units match, we can put that into our formula:

$F= ma$
$F= (0.150kg)(-2,500m/s^{2})$
$F = -375kg.m/ s^{2} or -375N$

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3 years ago

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Answer:

$U(r)=-\frac{Gm_Emr^2}{2R^3_E}$

Explanation:

We are given that

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r=0,U(0)=0

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Substitute r=0 ,U(0)=0

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$C=0$

Substitute the value

$U(r)=-\frac{Gm_Emr^2}{2R^3_E}$

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3 years ago

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Time period between t=2 until t=5 is (5 - 2) = 3 seconds.

Average speed of the ball from t=2 until t=5 is

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Explanation:

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