Chirs wanted to test the effect of diet pills on how tall the tomato plants in his garden would grow. he took two pots, filled them with dirt from the same bag, and planted four tomato plants in each. he watered one planter with tap water, and he watered the other planter with tap water mixed with dissolved diet pills. the plants were in the same location to ensure they got same amount of sunlight, and the water was measured so that each pot received the same amount of water. he measured their height at the end of each week for eight weeks, and averaged the height of the four plants in each pot. he then graphed the result to show how the diet pills affected the height of the plants.
1: what is the independent variable of this experiment?

    m₁v₁ + m₂v₂ = (m₁ + m₂)vmomentum is conserved.the left-hand side of the equation represents the momentum in the system before the collision.the right-hand side represents the momentum in the system after the collisionm₁ and v₁ represents the mass and the velocity of the physics blockm₂ and v₂ represents the mass and velocity of the ball of puttyv represents the final velocity of the combined mass.the question states the two masses stick together. they combined mass has its own velocity with the body mass the sum of the two objects' massestheir combined momentum is (m₁ + m₂)vto find the magitude of (m₁ + m₂)v, we need to add the vectors on the left-hand side of the equation: m₁v₁ + m₂v₂.note the diagram. i have positioned the vectors in accordance with their directions.the magnitude of the resultant can be calculated using the pythagorean theorem since this is a right triangle situation (north and west are perpendicular)|(m₁ + m₂)v| =  √[ (m₁v₁)² + (m₂v₂)² ]|(m₁ + m₂)v| =  √[ (1.5kg·8.0m/s)² + (0.40kg·20m/s)² ]|(m₁ + m₂)v| =  14.4 kg m/sfor two significant figures (assuming that 20m/s is two), this rounds to 14 kg m/s

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