<span>They are used to measure and map effluent and pollution discharges from factories and sewerage plants, and the movement of sand around harbours, rivers and bays. Radioactive materials used for such purposes have short half-lives and decay to background levels within days.</span>
A graph of real speed can have a section that's as steep as you want,
but it can never be a perfectly vertical section.
Any vertical line on a graph, even it it's only a tiny tiny section, means
that at that moment in time, the speed had many different values.
It also means that the speed took no time to change from one value to
another, and THAT would mean infinite acceleration.
This interaction is known as <em>constructive interference</em>. It's a result of linear superposition.
Answer:
2.464 cm above the water surface
Explanation:
Recall that for the cube to float, means that the volume of water displaced weights the same as the weight of the block.
We calculate the weight of the block multiplying its density (0.78 gr/cm^3) times its volume (11.2^3 cm^3):
weight of the block = 0.78 * 11.2^3 gr
Now the displaced water will have a volume equal to the base of the cube (11.2 cm^2) times the part of the cube (x) that is under water. Recall as well that the density of water is 1 gr/cm^3.
So the weight of the volume of water displaced is:
weight of water = 1 * 11.2^2 * x
we make both weight expressions equal each other for the floating requirement:
0.78 * 11.2^3 = 11.2^2 * x
then x = 0.78 * 11.2 cm = 8.736 cm
This "x" is the portion of the cube under water. Then to estimate what is left of the cube above water, we subtract it from the cube's height (11.2 cm) as follows:
11.2 cm - 8.736 cm = 2.464 cm
