Answer:
filament bulbs give off lots of metal filament that transfers wasted energy to the surrounding.
Answer:
Approximately
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Assumption: the ball dropped with no initial velocity, and that the air resistance on this ball is negligible.
Explanation:
Assume the air resistance on the ball is negligible. Because of gravity, the ball should accelerate downwards at a constant
near the surface of the earth.
For an object that is accelerating constantly,
,
where
is the initial velocity of the object,
is the final velocity of the object.
is its acceleration, and
is its displacement.
In this case,
is the same as the change in the ball's height:
. By assumption, this ball was dropped with no initial velocity. As a result,
. Since the ball is accelerating due to gravity,
.
.
In this case,
would be the velocity of the ball just before it hits the ground. Solve for
.
.
Answer:
The first part can be solved via conservation of energy.

For the second part,
the free body diagram of the car should be as follows:
- weight in the downwards direction
- normal force of the track to the car in the downwards direction
The total force should be equal to the centripetal force by Newton's Second Law.

where
because we are looking for the case where the car loses contact.

Now we know the minimum velocity that the car should have. Using the energy conservation found in the first part, we can calculate the minimum height.

Explanation:
The point that might confuse you in this question is the direction of the normal force at the top of the loop.
We usually use the normal force opposite to the weight. However, normal force is the force that the road exerts on us. Imagine that the car goes through the loop very very fast. Its tires will feel a great amount of normal force, if its velocity is quite high. By the same logic, if its velocity is too low, it might not feel a normal force at all, which means losing contact with the track.
You use acceleration due to gravity
and 1/2 atsqr=d
therefore 1/2 * 9.8 * tsqr= d