Answer: (a) The gravitational force on the object at the North Pole of Neptune is 51.7N
(b) The apparent weight of the object at Neptune's equator is 50.4N
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The world record for pole vaulting is 6.15 m. If the pole vaulter's gravitational potential energy is 4942 J, what is his mass?
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<h2>Answer: B. Gravitational potential energy </h2>
Explanation:
<em>The gravitational potential energy is the energy that a body or object possesses, due to its position in a gravitational field. </em>
That is why this energy depends on the relative height of an object with respect to some point of reference and associated with the gravitational force.
In the case of the <u>Earth</u>, in which <u>the gravitational field is considered constant</u>, the value of the gravitational potential energy will be:
Where is the mass of the object,
the acceleration due gravity and
the height of the object.
As we can see, the value of is directly proportional to the height.
Answer:
15.1°
Explanation:
The horizontal velocity of the hockey puck is constant during the motion, since there are no forces acting along this direction:
Instead, the vertical velocity changes, due to the presence of the acceleration due to gravity:
(1)
where
is the initial vertical velocity
g = 9.8 m/s^2 is the gravitational acceleration
t is the time
Since the hockey puck falls from a height of h=2.00 m, the time it needs to reach the ground is given by
Substituting t into (1) we find the final vertical velocity
where the negative sign means that the velocity is downward.
Now that we have both components of the velocity, we can calculate the angle with respect to the horizontal: