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3 years ago

Day and night are caused by

Physics

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JulijaS [17]3 years ago

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Answer:

Explanation:

How is the rotation of the earth responsible for causing day and night?

We get day and night because the Earth spins (or rotates) on an imaginary line called its axis and different parts of the planet are facing towards the Sun or away from it. It takes 24 hours for the world to turn all the way around, and we call this a day.

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Starting from rest, a disk rotates about its central axis with constant angular acceleration. in 6.00 s, it rotates 44.5 rad. du

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a. The disk starts at rest, so its angular displacement at time $t$ is

$\theta=\dfrac\alpha2t^2$

It rotates 44.5 rad in this time, so we have

$44.5\,\mathrm{rad}=\dfrac\alpha2(6.00\,\mathrm s)^2\implies\alpha=2.47\dfrac{\rm rad}{\mathrm s^2}$

b. Since acceleration is constant, the average angular velocity is

$\omega_{\rm avg}=\dfrac{\omega_f+\omega_i}2=\dfrac{\omega_f}2$

where $\omega_f$ is the angular velocity achieved after 6.00 s. The velocity of the disk at time $t$ is

$\omega=\alpha t$

so we have

$\omega_f=\left(2.47\dfrac{\rm rad}{\mathrm s^2}\right)(6.00\,\mathrm s)=14.8\dfrac{\rm rad}{\rm s}$

making the average velocity

$\omega_{\rm avg}=\dfrac{14.8\frac{\rm rad}{\rm s}}2=7.42\dfrac{\rm rad}{\rm s}$

Another way to find the average velocity is to compute it directly via

$\omega_{\rm avg}=\dfrac{\Delta\theta}{\Delta t}=\dfrac{44.5\,\rm rad}{6.00\,\rm s}=7.42\dfrac{\rm rad}{\rm s}$

c. We already found this using the first method in part (b),

$\omega=14.8\dfrac{\rm rad}{\rm s}$

d. We already know

$\theta=\dfrac\alpha2t^2$

so this is just a matter of plugging in $t=12.0\,\mathrm s$ . We get

$\theta=179\,\mathrm{rad}$

Or to make things slightly more interesting, we could have taken the end of the first 6.00 s interval to be the start of the next 6.00 s interval, so that

$\theta=44.5\,\mathrm{rad}+\left(14.8\dfrac{\rm rad}{\rm s}\right)t+\dfrac\alpha2t^2$

Then for $t=6.00\,\rm s$ we would get the same $\theta=179\,\rm rad$ .

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Answer:

Al's mass is 102.92 kg

Explanation:

As there are no external forces in the horizontal direction, the horizontal net force must be zero:

$F_{net} = 0$

As the force is the derivative in time of the momentum, this means that the horizontal momentum is constant:

$F_{net} = \frac{dp_{horizontal}}{dt} = 0$

$p_{horizontal_i }= p_{horizontal_f}$

where the suffix i and f means initial and final respectively.

The initial momentum will be:

$p_{horizontal_}i = m_{Al} \ v_{Al_i} + m_{Jo} \ v_{Jo_i}$

But, as they are at rest, initially

$p_{horizontal_i} = m_{Al} * 0 + m_{Jo} * 0$

$p_{horizontal_i} = 0$

So, this means:

$p_{horizontal_f} = m_{Al} \ v_{Al_f} + m_{Jo} \ v_{Jo_f} = 0$

We know that the have an combined mass of 195 kg:

$m_{total} = m_{Al} + m_{Jo} = 195 \ kg$ .

so:

$m_{Jo} = 195 \ kg - m_{Al}$ .

$m_{Al} \ v_{Al_f} + (195 \ kg - m_{Al}) \ v_{Jo_f} = 0$

$m_{Al} \ v_{Al_f} - m_{Al} \ v_{Jo_f}= - 195 \ kg \ v_{Jo_f}$

$m_{Al} \ (v_{Al_f} - v_{Jo_f})= - 195 \ kg \ v_{Jo_f}$

$m_{Al} = \frac{ - 195 \ kg \ v_{Jo_f} } { v_{Al_f} - v_{Jo_f} }$

$m_{Al} = \frac{195 \ kg \ v_{Jo_f} } { v_{Jo_f} - v_{Al_f} }$

Now, we can use the values:

$v_{Al_f}= 10.2 \frac{m}{s}$

$v_{Jo_f}= - 11.4 \frac{m}{s}$

where the minus sign appears as they are moving at opposite directions

$m_{Al} = \frac{195 \ kg ( - 11.4 \frac{m}{s} ) } { (- 11.4 \frac{m}{s}) - 10.2 \frac{m}{s} }$

$m_{Al} = 102.92 \ kg$

and this is the Al's mass.

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Answer:

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Answer:

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