Two students push on a 5-kg cart from opposite sides
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Their average velocity is 0.98 m/s east.
Explanation:
The average velocity of an object is defined as the ratio between the displacement and the time taken:
The displacement is a vector connecting the initial point to the final point of motion: so, being displacement a vector, velocity is a vector as well, having the same direction of displacement.
Here, Heather and Matt walk 2.0 km eastward, so their displacement is
d = 2.0 km = 2000 m (east)
While the time they took is
Therefore, their average velocity is
And the direction is the same as the displacement (east).
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<span>When an object travels in a curved path, there must be a force acting toward the center of the circular trajectory. This force is called "centripetal force", and it cause an acceleration of the object, called "centripetal acceleration". The effect of this acceleration is that the velocity of the object changes in direction: however if the circular motion is uniform, the speed (=the magnitude of the velocity) does not change. In this case, the magnitude of the centripetal force is given by
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where m is the mass of the object, v its velocity, and r the radius of the circular path.</span>
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where m is the mass of the object, v its velocity, and r the radius of the circular path.</span>