All categories

3 years ago

What do scientists theorize about the origins of the Moon? Choose the most accepted explanation.

Physics

1 answer:

Darina [25.2K]3 years ago

8 0

Answer:

What is most widely accepted today is a the giant-impact theory. It proposes that the Moon formed during a collision between the Earth and another small planet, about the size of Mars. The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to form the Moon.

You might be interested in

Given the following situation of marble in motion on rolling 10 m/s horizontally from a height of 1.5-m with negligible friction

Norma-Jean [14]

Answer:

The ball would hit the floor approximately $0.55\; \rm s$ after leaving the table.

The ball would travel approximately $5.5\; \rm m$ horizontally after leaving the table.

(Assumption: $g = 9.81\; \rm m \cdot s^{-2}$ .)

Explanation:

Let $\Delta h$ denote the change to the height of the ball. Let $t$ denote the time (in seconds) it took for the ball to hit the floor after leaving the table. Let $v_0(\text{vertical})$ denote the initial vertical velocity of this ball.

If the air resistance on this ball is indeed negligible: $\displaystyle \Delta h = -\frac{1}{2}\, g\, t^{2} + v_0(\text{vertical}) \cdot t$ .

The ball was initially travelling horizontally. In other words, before leaving the table, the vertical velocity of the ball was $v_0(\text{vertical}) = 0 \; \rm m \cdot s^{-1}$ .

The height of the table was $1.5\; \rm m$ . Therefore, after hitting the floor, the ball would be $1.5\; \rm m \!$ below where it was before leaving the table. Hence, $\Delta h = -1.5\;\rm m$ .

The equation becomes:

$\displaystyle -1.5 = -\frac{9.81}{2} \, t^{2}$ .

Solve for $t$ :

$\displaystyle t = \sqrt{1.5 \times \frac{2}{9.81}} \approx 0.55$ .

In other words, it would take approximately $0.55\; \rm s$ for the ball to hit the floor after leaving the table.

Since the air resistance on the ball is negligible, the horizontal velocity of this ball would be constant (at $v(\text{horizontal}) =10\; \rm m \cdot s^{-1}$ ) until the ball hits the floor.

The ball was in the air for approximately $t = 0.55\; \rm s$ and would have travelled approximately $v(\text{horizontal})\cdot t \approx 5.5\;\rm m$ horizontally during the flight.

4 0

2 years ago

Large amounts of water that quickly infiltrate soil on a sloped surface can

sergey [27]

A is the correct choice

7 0

3 years ago

*URGENT* Why is understanding motion so important? Be sure to explain in your own words.

levacccp [35]

Answer:

Motion is one of the important issues of Physics. We know that if we are not moving but still earth is moving. Motion is a bit of the machinist's Department of Physics. Several laws are provided for explaining the theory of motion and evolution in motion. The motion and transformation are defined in terms of strength which is wanted for creating an object in a motion state.

3 0

3 years ago

She leaves her campsite and runs north for 10 miles turns east and runs 8 miles then turns south and runs 2 miles.whats her dist

Mama L [17]

The distance is 20 miles

Explanation:

Definitions:

Distance is the total length of the path covered by an object during its motion, regardless of the direction of its motion
Displacement is the shortest distance between the initial and final position of the motion, so it also takes into account the direction of motion

In this problem, we want to know the distance covered by the woman. The motion consists of the following parts:

$d_1 = 10 miles$ north

$d_2 = 8 miles$ east

$d_3 = 2 miles$ south

To find the distance, we just have to add the length of each path, ignoring the direction. Therefore:

$d=d_1 + d_2 + d_3 = 10+8+2 = 20 miles$

Learn more about distance and displacement:

brainly.com/question/3969582

#LearnwithBrainly

4 0

3 years ago

Which nasa program of unmanned probes, which is a synonym for an innovator, were the first to visit the outer planets and the fi

aksik [14]

The synonym for innovator and a NASA program for unmanned probes is Pioneer. Pioneer 10, launched in 1972. and Pioneer 11 launched in 1973. were the first probes that visited the outer planets and went beyond Pluto, Kuiper belt and into interstellar space. They both carry the gold-anodized aluminum plaque with naked human male and female and a map to Earth, designed by Carl Sagan, in case they are found by an extraterrestrial civilization outside the Solar system.

6 0

3 years ago