Ten days after it was launched toward mars in december 1998, the mars climate orbiter spacecraft (mass 629 kg) was 2.87×10⁶ km from the earth and traveling at 1.20×10⁴ km/h relative to the earth. at this time, what were (a) the spacecraft’s kinetic energy relative to the earth and (b) the potential energy of the earth–spacecraft system?

The energy released by a chemical reaction can be measured using a calorimeter. when barium hydroxide octahydrate crystals are reacted with dry ammonium chloride inside of a coffee cup calorimeter, the temperature of the 18.00 g of water in the calorimeter decreases from 30.0°c to 8.0°c. the equation for calculating energy absorbed or released by a reaction is: where q is the energy released or absorbed, m is the mass of water in the calorimeter, cp is the specific heat of water, and δt is the observed temperature change. if the specific heat of liquid water is 4.19 j/g·°c, how much energy was absorbed by the reaction?

You are driving directly behind a pickup truck, going at the same speed as the truck. a crate falls from the bed of the truck to the road. (a) will your car hit the crate before the crate hits the road if you neither brake nor swerve? (b) during the fall, is the horizontal speed of the crate more than, less than, or the same as that of the truck?

What is the speed of an object at a given moment?