You are handed a rod that is four times as dense on one side as it is on the other side, and two times as dense in the middle as it is on the least dense side. Further, you are told that the density varies quadratically. The mass of the rod is M and the length is L. Write your answers only in terms of these constants. (a) What is the moment of inertia about an axis that passes through the midpoint of the rod (and is perpendicular to the length of the rod)?
(b) What is the moment of inertia about an axis that passes through one of the ends of the rod (and is perpendicular to the length of the rod)?

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

Science and technology are interdependent. advances in one lead to advances in the other. give an example of this phenomenon.

Because light travels in a straight line and casts a shadow, isaac newton hypothesized that light is