The winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere, occurs when the Earth is in which position?

What is the weight of a feather (mass = 0.0001 kg) that floats through earth's and the moon's atmospheres?

olya-2409 [2.1K]

Weight = (mass) x (acceleration of gravity)

Acceleration of gravity = 9.81 m/s² on Earth, 1.62 m/s² on the Moon.

The feather's weight is . . .

On Earth: (0.0001 kg) x (9.81 m/s²) = 0.000981 Newton

On the Moon: (0.0001 kg) x (1.62 m/s²) = 0.000162 N

The presence or absence of atmosphere makes no difference. In fact, the numbers would be the same if the feather were sealed in a jar, or spinning wildly in a tornado, or hanging by a thread, or floating in a bowl of water or chicken soup. Weight is just the force of gravity between the feather and the Earth. It's not affected by what's around the feather, or what's happening to it.

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2 years ago

What is the wavelenght of an earthquake wave if it has a speed of 11 km/s and a frequency of 15 Hz

Zolol [24]

Answer:

The wavelength is about 733 meters.

Explanation:

Use the wavelength-frequency relationship:

$\lambda = \frac{v}{f}= \frac{11000 \frac{m}{s}}{15 s^{-1}}\approx733m$

The wavelength is about 733 meters.

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3 years ago

An isolated conducting sphere has a 17 cm radius. One wire carries a current of 1.0000020 A into it. Another wire carries a curr

notsponge [240]

14 ms is required to reach the potential of 1500 V.

Explanation:

The current is measured as the amount of charge traveling per unit time. So the charge of electrons required for each current is determined as the product of current with time.

$Charge = Current \times Time$

As two different current is passing at two different times, the net charge will be the different in current. So,

$\text { Charge }=(1.0000020-1.0000000) \times t=2 \times 10^{-6} \times t$

The electric voltage on the surface of cylinder can be obtained as the ratio of charge to the radius of the cylinder.

$V=\frac{k q}{R}$

Here $k = 9 * 10^9$ , q is the charge and R is the radius. As $q=2 \times 10^{-6} \times t$ and R =17 cm = 0.17 m, then the voltage will be

$V=\frac{9 \times 10^{9} \times 2 \times 10^{-6} \times t}{0.17}$

The time is required to find to reach the voltage of 1500 V, so

$1500 =\frac{9 \times 10^{9} \times 2 \times 10^{-6} \times t}{0.17}$

$\begin{aligned}&t=\frac{1500 \times 0.17}{\left(9 \times 10^{9} \times 2 \times 10^{-6}\right)}\\&t=14.1666 \times 10^{-3} s=14\ \mathrm{ms}\end{aligned}$