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What causes a meteor shower?

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Answer: Meteor showers occur when the earth in its orbit around the Sun passes through debris left over from the destruction of comets.

Explanation:A meteor is a particle broken off an asteroid or comet orbiting the Sun, it burns up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere, creating the effect called shooting star. Cosmic debris of meteor is known as meteoroids. These meteoroids, entering Earth's atmosphere, at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories is an event known as meteor shower.

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A hot-air balloon of diameter 12 mm rises vertically at a constant speed of 14 m/s. A passenger accidentally drops his camera fr

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Answer:

<em>The balloon is 66.62 m high</em>

Explanation:

<u>Combined Motion </u>

The problem has a combination of constant-speed motion and vertical launch. The hot-air balloon is rising at a constant speed of 14 m/s. When the camera is dropped, it initially has the same speed as the balloon (vo=14 m/s). The camera has an upward movement for some time until it runs out of speed. Then, it falls to the ground. The height of an object that was launched from an initial height yo and speed vo is

$\displaystyle y=y_o+v_o\ t-\frac{g\ t^2}{2}$

The values are

$\displaystyle y_o=15\ m$

$\displaystyle v_o=14\ m/s$

We must find the values of t such that the height of the camera is 0 (when it hits the ground)

$\displaystyle y=0$

$\displaystyle y_o+v_o\ t-\frac{g\ t^2}{2}=0$

Multiplying by 2

$\displaystyle 2y_o+2v_ot-gt^2=0$

Clearing the coefficient of $t^2$

$\displaystyle t^2-\frac{2\ V_o}{g}\ t-\frac{2\ y_o}{g}=0$

Plugging in the given values, we reach to a second-degree equation

$\displaystyle t^2-2.857t-3.061=0$

The equation has two roots, but we only keep the positive root

$\displaystyle \boxed {t=3.69\ s}$

Once we know the time of flight of the camera, we use it to know the height of the balloon. The balloon has a constant speed vr and it already was 15 m high, thus the new height is

$\displaystyle Y_r=15+V_r.t$

$\displaystyle Y_r=15+14\times3.69$

$\displaystyle \boxed{Y_r=66.62\ m}$

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They both are mechanical waves.

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A circuit consists of a 12 V battery connected across a single resistor. If the current in the circuit is

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Answer:

4 Ohms

Explanation:

Apply the formula:

Voltage = I (current) . Resistance

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In this case...

R = V/I

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