Answer:
medium
Examples:
A medium is a thing that the sound wave would travel through, like sound waves traveling through air. A mechanical wave cannot travel without a medium, like if the wave were trying to travel through a vacuum.
Answer: 7.5 rev/s
Explanation:
We are given the angular velocity
a helicopter's main rotor blades:

However, we are asked to express this
in the International Systrm (SI) units. In this sense, the SI unit for time is second (
):


Look at the title of the graph, in small print under it.
Each point is "compared to 1950-1980 baseline". So the set of data for those years is being compared to itself. No wonder it matches up pretty close !
Newton's Second law of motion:
Force = (mass) x (acceleration)
Force = (15kg) x (8m/s²) = 120 kg-m/s² = 120 newtons