Steve and Valerie measure the time it takes for two smooth aluminum spheres to roll down a ramp, and they make a histogram analogous to that made by Dyan and Kelly. The radii of the two spheres are the same (at least, to the precision of their measurement device), but one sphere is hollow while the other is solid.

a. Is this a reasonable test of the effect of mass on the acceleration of a sphere? If not, what would be?
b. Is this a reasonable test of the effect of hollowness? If not, what would be?

Acar accelerates from 5.0 m/s to to 11 m/s at a rate of 3.0 m/s^2. how far does it travel while accelerating? 20m 117m 43m 16m

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

Suppose a wheel with a tire mounted on it is rotating at the constant rate of 2.15 times a second. a tack is stuck in the tire at a distance of 0.373 m from the rotation axis. noting that for every rotation the tack travels one circumference (a) find the tack's tangential speed. (b) what is the tacks radial acceleration?