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1 year ago

What is the intensity of sunlight on earth.

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1 answer:

azamat1 year ago

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About 1,360 watts per square meter

At Earth's average distance from the Sun (about 150 million kilometers), the average intensity of solar energy reaching the top of the atmosphere directly facing the Sun is about 1,360 watts per square meter, according to measurements made by the most recent NASA satellite missions.

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The atmosphere is held together by

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Answer:

D. gravity

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Gravity keeps the atmosphere from escaping into space.

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2 years ago

A satellite in outer space is moving at a constant velocity of 21.4 m/s in the y direction when one of its onboard thruster turn

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Answer:

a) The magnitude of the satellite's velocity when the thruster turns off is approximately 24.177 meters per second.

b) The direction of the satellite's velocity when the thruster turns off is approximately 62.266º.

Explanation:

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A satellite in outer space is moving at a constant velocity of 21.4 m/s in the y direction when one of its onboard thruster turns on, causing an acceleration of 0.250 m/s2 in the x direction. The acceleration lasts for 45.0 s, at which point the thruster turns off.

(a) What is the magnitude of the satellite's velocity when the thruster turns off

(b) What is the direction of the satellite's velocity when the thruster turns off? Give your answer as an angle measured counterclockwise from the +x-axis. ° counterclockwise from the +x-axis

Let be x and y-directions orthogonal to each other and the satellite is accelerated uniformly from rest in the +x direction and moves at constant velocity in the +y direction. The velocity vector of the satellite ( $\vec{v}_{S}$ ), measured in meters per second, is:

$\vec{v}_{S} = (v_{o,x}+a_{x}\cdot t)\,\hat{i}+v_{y}\,\hat{j}$

Where:

$v_{o,x}$ - Initial velocity in +x direction, measured in meters per second.

$a_{x}$ - Acceleration in +x direction, measured in meter per square second.

$t$ - Time, measured in seconds.

$v_{y}$ - Velocity in +y direction, measured in meters per second.

If we know that $v_{o,x} = 0\,\frac{m}{s}$ , $a_{x} = 0.250\,\frac{m}{s^{2}}$ , $t = 45\,s$ and $v_{y} = 21.4\,\frac{m}{s}$ , the final velocity of the satellite is:

$\vec{v}_{S} = \left[0\,\frac{m}{s}+\left(0.250\,\frac{m}{s^{2}} \right)\cdot (45\,s) \right]\,\hat{i}+\left(21.4\,\frac{m}{s} \right)\,\hat{j}$

$\vec{v_{S}} = 11.25\,\hat{i}+21.4\,\hat{j}\,\,\left[\frac{m}{s} \right]$

a) The magnitud of the satellite's velocity can be found by the resource of the Pythagorean Theorem:

$\|\vec {v}_{S}\| = \sqrt{\left(11.25\,\frac{m}{s} \right)^{2}+\left(21.4\,\frac{m}{s} \right)^{2}}$

$\|\vec{v}_{S}\| \approx 24.177\,\frac{m}{s}$

The magnitude of the satellite's velocity when the thruster turns off is approximately 24.177 meters per second.

b) The direction of the satellite's velocity when the thruster turns off is determined with the help of trigonometric functions:

$\tan \alpha = \frac{v_{y}}{v_{x}} = \frac{21.4\,\frac{m}{s} }{11.25\,\frac{m}{s} }$

$\tan \alpha = 1.902$

$\alpha = \tan^{-1}1.902$

$\alpha \approx 62.266^{\circ}$

The direction of the satellite's velocity when the thruster turns off is approximately 62.266º.

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2 years ago

The auto in the sketch moves forward as the brakes are applied. A bystander says that during the interval of braking, the auto's

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Answer:

The statement is true: velocity and acceleration have opposite directions in the interval of braking.

Explanation:

Let's say we have a velocity $v>0$ .

The acceleration $a$ is the rate of change of the velocity $v$ . This means that if $v$ is increasing during time, then $a$ must be positive. But if $v$ is decreasing over time, then $a$ will be negative (even though the velocity is positive).

Mathematically:

$a=\frac{dv}{dt}$

$v$ decreases ⇒ $\frac{dv}{dt}$

⇒ $a$ .

Example:

$v(t)=e^{-t}>0 \\\\\frac{dv}{dt}=-te^{-t}$

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