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The Sun and planets are shown to the same scale. The small terrestrial planets and tiny Pluto are in the box---the Earth is the blue dot near the center of the box (montage created by Nick Strobel using NASA images).
Size
The Sun is by far the biggest thing in the solar system. From its angular size of about 0.5° and its distance of almost 150 million kilometers, its diameter is determined to be 1,392,000 kilometers. This is equal to 109 Earth diameters and almost 10 times the size of the largest planet, Jupiter. All of the planets orbit the Sun because of its enormous gravity. It has about 333,000 times the Earth's mass and is over 1,000 times as massive as Jupiter. It has so much mass that it is able to produce its own light. This feature is what distinguishes stars from planets.
Composition
What is the Sun made of? Spectroscopy shows that hydrogen makes up about 94% of the solar material, helium makes up about 6% of the Sun, and all the other elements make up just 0.13% (with oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen the three most abundant ``metals''---they make up 0.11%). In astronomy, any atom heavier than helium is called a ``metal'' atom. The Sun also has traces of neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, potassium, and iron. The percentages quoted here are by the relative number of atoms. If you use the percentage by mass, you find that hydrogen makes up 78.5% of the Sun's mass, helium 19.7%, oxygen 0.86%, carbon 0.4%, iron 0.14%, and the other elements are 0.54%.
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<u>Horizontal Launch
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It happens when an object is launched with an angle of zero respect to the horizontal reference. It's characteristics are:
- The horizontal speed is constant and equal to the initial speed
- The vertical speed is zero at launch time, but increases as the object starts to fall
- The height of the object gradually decreases until it hits the ground
- The horizontal distance where the object lands is called the range
We have the following formulas
Where is the initial horizontal speed, 
is the vertical speed, t is the time, g is the acceleration of gravity, x is the horizontal distance, and y is the height.
If we know the initial height of the object, we can compute the time it takes to hit the ground by using
Rearranging and solving for t
We then replace this value in
To get
The initial speed depends on the initial height y=32.5 m, the range x=107.6 m and g=9.8 m/s^2. Computing
The launch velocity is
Answer:
1.25 m/s^2
Explanation:
m = 76 kg, R = 840 N
Let a be the acceleration of teh elevator in upward direction.
By use of Newton's second law
R - mg = m a
R = m ( g + a)
840 = 76 ( 9.8 + a)
a = 1.25 m/s^2
