Atypical meteor that hits the earth's upper atmosphere has a mass of only 2.5 g, about the same as a penny, but it is moving at an impressive 40 km/s. as the meteor slows, the resulting thermal energy makes a glowing streak across the sky, a shooting star. the small mass packs a surprising punch.
at what speed would a 900 kg compact car need to move to have the same kinetic energy?

Galileo was the first to notice that the moon has craters, valleys, and mountains. how might this have changed people's perception of the moon at the time?

A30 kg weight lies on top of a massless piston of area a = 0.01 m2 the exterior air is at a (constant) p =1 atm and t = 27 c. the interior gas is 0.4 moles of (ideal) n2 and it has initial temperature 27.00 degrees c. 1. what is the initial pressure in the interior? a. 29.4 kpa b. 130.7 kpa c. 101.3 kpa the next three questions concern what happens when an amount of heat q is slowly added to the interior, raising the piston by 1 mm and raising the interior temperature to 27.40 c

The earth is constantly spinning on its axis, like you might spin a basketball on your finger. it is this spinning of the earth that causes