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2 years ago

Why is temperature scalar?

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Temperature is just a measure of how HOT or COLD a substance is, which can be easily defined by a magnitude using a numerical value say “300 K” or “27°C”. Hence we can say it is a scalar quantity.

But the energy which transfer by virtue of a temperature difference is a vector quantity, as it has both magnitude and direction of motion (from High temperature to low temperature region).

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"The International Space Station (ISS) orbits at a distance of 350 km above the surface of the Earth. (a) Determine the gravitat

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Answer:

(a) g = 8.82158145 $m/s^2$ .

(b) 7699.990192m/s.

Explanation:

(a) Strength of gravitational field 'g' by definition is

$g = \frac{M_{(earth)} }{r^2} G$ , here G is Gravitational Constant, and r is distance from center of earth, all the values will remain same except r which will be radius of earth + altitude at which ISS is in orbit.

r = 6721,000 meters, putting this value in above equation gives g = 8.82158145 $m/s^2$ .

(b) We have to essentially calculate centripetal acceleration that equals new 'g'.

$a_{centripetal}=\frac{V^2}{r} =g$ here g is known, r is known and v is unknown.

plugging in r and g in above and solving for unknown gives V = 7699.990192m/s.

(c) S = vT, here T is time period or time required to complete one full revolution.

S = earth's circumfrence , V is calculated in (B) T is unknown.

solving for unknown gives T = 5484.3301s = 1.5234hours.

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2 years ago

By what means can the internal energy of a closed system increase?.

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Answer:

when work is done on the system or heat comes into the system

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In some areas, farmers have installed windmills to generate electricity to run the farm. Some are generating a surplus of electr

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Constructing a windmill involves harnessing the power of the wind to generate electricity. This type of electricity generation has no side effects whatsoever. It is environmental friendly and does not pollute the environment.

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assuming that the air temperature is constant, what happens to a hot air balloon if it goes too far up in the atmosphere , where

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2 years ago

A basketball player is 4.22 m from

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Answer: The height above the release point is 2.96 meters.

Explanation:

The acceleration of the ball is the gravitational acceleration in the y axis.

A = (0, -9.8m/s^)

For the velocity we can integrate over time and get:

V(t) = (9.20m/s*cos(69°), -9.8m/s^2*t + 9.20m/s^2*sin(69°))

for the position we can integrate it again over time, but this time we do not have any integration constant because the initial position of the ball will be (0,0)

P(t) = (9.20*cos(69°)*t, -4.9m/s^2*t^2 + 9.20m/s^2*sin(69°)*t)

now, the time at wich the horizontal displacement is 4.22 m will be:

4.22m = 9.20*cos(69°)*t

t = (4.22/ 9.20*cos(69°)) = 1.28s

Now we evaluate the y-position in this time:

h = -4.9m/s^2*(1.28s)^2 + 9.20m/s^2*sin(69°)*1.28s = 2.96m

The height above the release point is 2.96 meters.

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