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How long would it take you to swim across a lake that is 900 meters across if you

How long would it take you to swim across a lake that is 900 meters across if you swim at 1.5 m/sec?
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jasonweber8718
jasonweber8718
5,0(35 marks)

600 seconds or equivalently 10 minutes

Explanation:

Use the formula for velocity, and solve for the unknown time (t), as follows:

v=\frac{d}{t} \\1.5 \frac{m}{s} =\frac{900m}{t\\}\\t*1.5 \frac{m}{s} =900m\\t=\frac{900}{1.5} s= 600 s

Notice that all units are in the appropriate SI units, and therefore the answer for time comes in seconds.

600 seconds = 10 minutes

starfox5454
starfox5454
4,6(95 marks)

r = 4.24x10⁴ km.  

     

Explanation:

To find the radius of such an orbit we need to use Kepler's third law:

\frac{T_{1}^{2}}{T_{2}^{2}} = \frac{r_{1}^{3}}{r_{2}^{3}}

where T₁: is the orbital period of the geosynchronous Earth satellite = 1 d, T₂: is the orbital period of the moon = 0.07481 y, r₁: is the radius of such an orbit and r₂: is the orbital radius of the moon = 3.84x10⁵ km.                                                        

From equation (1), r₁ is:

r_{1} = r_{2} \sqrt[3] {(\frac{T_{1}}{T_{2}})^{2}}                            

r_{1} = 3.84\cdot 10^{5} km \sqrt[3] {(\frac{1 d}{0.07481 y \cdot \frac{365 d}{1 y}})^{2}}      

r_{1} = 4.24 \cdot 10^{4} km      

Therefore, the radius of such an orbit is 4.24x10⁴ km.

I hope it helps you!

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