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3 years ago

What happens to the kinetic energy of a roller coaster as it approaches its lowest point and loses its potential energy?

Physics

1 answer:

Fiesta28 [93]3 years ago

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Answer:

At the top of the roller coaster, there is a lot of potential energy. When it comes to the bottom, the roller coaster loses its potential energy and gains kinetic energy as it is going very fast here.

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A bird sits on top of a 639 m tall tower. If it's gravitational potential energy up there is 2033 J, what is its mass?

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The mass of the bird is 0.32 kg.

<u>Explanation:</u>

Gravitational potential energy, the energy exhibited by an object at rest due to the influence of gravitational force. So the increase in distance of object from the surface of earth leads to increase in the gravitational potential energy. Thus,

$\text {Gravitational potential energy}=m \times \text { Acceleration } \times \text { Distance of bird from bottom }$

So, as the gravitational potential energy is given as 2033 J and the position of bird placed on the tall tower is 639 m away from the bottom, then the mass (m) of the bird can be found as below.

$m o f \text { bird }=\frac{\text {Gravitational potential energy}}{a \times \text {Distance}}=\frac{2033}{9.8 \times 639}=\frac{2033}{6262.2}$

So, finally we get the bird's mass as,

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a) 9.72 mm

b) 4.86 mm

Explanation:

wave length of light λ is 580 nm = 580 \times 10⁻⁹ m

Width of slit d = 0.215\times 10⁻³ m

Distance of screen D = 1.8 m.

Width of one fringe = $\frac{\lambda\times D}{d}$

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= 2 times 4.86

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b) width of each fringe except central fringe is same , no matter what the order is.Only brightness changes .

So width of either of the two first order bright fringe will be same and it will be

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b) The shear stress is 0.0082

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