A crater of the correct age to be from the impact thought to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs was found in
A) the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
B) Arizona.
C) Northern Africa.
D) Chelyabinsk, Russia.
E) Tunguska, Siberia.
A) the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
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a. A hard-thrown baseball b. A speeding truck c. A moving electron d. An orbiting planet
The Roche limit is the point at which
A) the mass of an object classifies it as a moon. B) a moon orbiting a planet experiences synchronous rotation. C) the external tidal forces on an object are strong enough to be felt by the object. D) the external tidal forces on an object become greater than the internal forces that hold it together. E) the internal forces that hold an object together weaken so that the object falls apart.
A disk (radius = 8.0 cm) that rotates about a fixed axis starts from rest and accelerates at a constant rate to an angular velocity of 4.0 rad/s in 2.0 s. What is the magnitude of the total linear acceleration of a point on the rim of the disk at the instant when the angular velocity of the disk is 1.5 rad/s?
a. 24 cm/s2 b. 16 cm/s2 c. 18 cm/s2 d. 34 cm/s2 e. 44 cm/s2
Impulse: A super dart of mass 20 g, traveling at 350 m/s, strikes a steel plate at an angle of 30° with the plane of the plate, as shown in the figure. It bounces off the plate at the same angle but at a speed of 320 m/s. What is the magnitude of the impulse that the plate gives to the bullet?
A. 0.52 N ? s B. 4.3 N ? s C. 300 N ? s D. 6.7 N ? s E. 0.30 N ? s