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3 years ago

How do observing and inferring differ?

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Observation = you are seeing it as in: I can physically see rain therefore it IS raining
Inference = making a point based on suggestions as in: there are puddles on the ground. It must be raining therefore it IS raining

Illusion [34]3 years ago

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Observing is commenting on what you see e.g: It is raining.
Inferring is drawing conclusions from observations for example you see the road is wet so you might infer that it rained last night.

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Answer:

Explanation:

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= F Sin 60°

=√3 / 2 F.

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= √3 / 2 F x 1 Nm

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A stretched spring has 5184 J of elastic potential energy and a spring constant of 16,200 N/m. What is the displacement of the spring ?

Data:

$E_{pe}\:(elastic\:potential\:energy) = 5184\:J$

$K\:(constant) = 16200\:N/m$

$x\:(displacement) =\:?$

For a spring (or an elastic), the elastic potential energy is calculated by the following expression:

$E_{pe} = \dfrac{k*x^2}{2}$

Where k represents the elastic constant of the spring (or elastic) and x the deformation or displacement suffered by the spring.

Solving:

$E_{pe} = \dfrac{k*x^2}{2}$

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$x^{2} = \dfrac{10368}{16200}$

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Answer:

Part a)

$T = 42 N$

Part b)

$v_f = 11.8 m/s$

Part c)

$t = 1.7 s$

Part d)

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Explanation:

Part a)

While bucket is falling downwards we have force equation of the bucket given as

$mg - T = ma$

for uniform cylinder we will have

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now we have

$T = \frac{12 \times 7}{2}$

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Part b)

speed of the bucket can be found using kinematics

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Part c)

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$v_f - v_i = at$

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$t = 1.7 s$

Part d)

as we know that cylinder is at rest and not moving downwards

so here we can use force balance

$F = T + Mg$

$F = 42 + (12 \times 9.81)$

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