Jenny is traveling southward. In order to stop, she needs a northward acceleration.
A better way to say it:
Jenny is traveling southward in her bumper car, so the direction of her velocity is south. In order to reduce her velocity to zero, a velocity of equal magnitude but directed north must be added to it. Then the change in velocity is positive northward, and the change in velocity per unit time is acceleration.
Answer:
Explanation:
the same amount of time in both halves of the circle
In an alpha decay, an atom emits an alpha particle. An alpha particle consists of 2 protons and 2 neutrons: this means that during this kind of decay, the original atom loses 2 protons and 2 neutrons from its nucleus.
This also means that the atomic number Z of the element (the atomic number is the number of protons in the nucleus) decreases by 2 units in the process, while the mass number A (the mass number is the sum of the number of protons and neutrons) decreases by 4 units.
Answer:
9.96x10^-20 kg-m/s
Explanation:
Momentum p is the product of mass and velocity, i.e
P = mv
Alpha particles, like helium nuclei, have a net spin of zero. Due to the mechanism of their production in standard alpha radioactive decay, alpha particles generally have a kinetic energy of about 5 MeV, and a velocity in the vicinity of 5% the speed of light.
From this we calculate the speed as
v = 5% 0f 3x10^8 m/s (speed of light)
v = 1.5x10^7 m/s
The mass of an alpha particle is approximately 6.64×10−27 kg
Therefore,
P = 1.5x10^7 x 6.64×10^−27
P = 9.96x10^-20 kg-m/s
The time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/half-life
