A spring-loaded toy gun projects a 5.0 g nerf pellet horizontally. The spring constant is 8.5 N/m, the barrel of the gun is 12 cm long, and a constant frictional force of 0.029 N exists between the barrel and the nerf pellet. If the spring is compressed 5.5 cm for this launch, determine the speed (in m/s) of the pellet as it leaves the barrel. (Assume the pellet is in contact with the barrel for the full length of the barrel.)

Comedians like to joke that the reason we haven’t been visited by intelligent life from elsewhere in the universe is that aliens have been monitoring earth’s broadcasts of intellectually embarrassing tv programs, like gilligan’s island, fear factor, the jersey shore, and the jerry springer showand so consider us far too primitive to merit a visit. let’s check the assertion that aliens could have been receiving them. tv programs are broadcast at a frequency of about 100mhz with about 100kw of total power in 30frames per second, which emanatesroughly uniformly in all directions. assume that interstellar space transmits these broadcasts without attenuation. no matter how smart they are, aliens would require at least one photon per frame to interpret our signals. findthe number of photons per unit time per unit area reaching a receiver on a possible planet in the nearest star system, which is about 4 light-years away (a light-year is the distance light travels in a year). if aliens aimed a receiver or detector directly at earth, how big (in diameter) would it have to be to receive a photon per frame

A2000 kg car is rounding a curve of radius 200 m on a level road. the maximum frictional force the road can exert on the tires of the car is 4000 n. what is the highest speed at which the car can round the curve?

In a set amount of time, a battery supplies 25j of energy to an electric circuit that includes two different loads. one of the loads produces 10 j of heat energy during this time interval. how much heat energy is produced by the second load in this time? explain your answer