Category: Physics

What is clay and its uses? Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Clay is used in many modern industrial processes, such as paper making, cement production, and chemical filtering. What is clay and where does it come from? Clay comes from the ground, usually in areas where streams or […]

What statement explains the relationship between convection current and plate movements? In addition, convection currents occurs because the very hot material at the deepest part of the mantle rises, then cools, sinking again and heating, rising and repeating the cycle over and over again. Thus, all the motion caused by these actions causes plate tectonics […]

What are the similarities between resultant and Equilibrant forces? Resultant is a single force that can replace the effect of a number of forces. “Equilibrant” is a force that is exactly opposite to a resultant. Equilibrant and resultant have equal magnitudes but opposite directions. What is the space diagram? A drawing of a structure that […]

Why Coriolis force is perpendicular to pressure gradient force? The Coriolis force acts perpendicular to the ‘velocity’ of the moving body. A way to visualize this is as follows: When it starts, the wind is moving exactly along the pressure gradient (red line below). Coriolis force pulls it in a perpendicular direction (green line). Now, […]

At which stage is potential energy at its minimum? The potential energy due to gravity is at a minimum, since the mass is lifted the least amount above ground. In fact, if ground level is imagined at the bottom of the motion, the potential energy due to gravity is zero at this point of the […]

What did Aristotle say about the moon? For Aristotle the moon had been a perfect sphere, and that was how people still saw it in 1609. A perfect sphere, of course, is perfectly smooth. The pure moon was not of base earth. What did ancients think of the moon? Through persistent observation, Anaxagoras came to […]

Is Russia a stage 4 country? It does not have the qualities of stage 1, high birth rates and death rates. Russia does not have declining birth rates and low death rates that would classify it as stage 3. Since it’s not stage 4 with low birth and death rates Russia could possibly be the […]

What is the force in Newtons on each load? The unit of force is the Newton (N) – where one newton is one kilogram metre per second squared. The Newton is defined as the force which, when applied to a mass of one kilogram, gives an acceleration of one meter per second squared. F = […]

What are some examples of seafloor spreading? Seafloor spreading occurs along mid-ocean ridges—large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, for instance, separates the North American plate from the Eurasian plate, and the South American plate from the African plate. What is used to measure bathymetry? ADCPs measure water velocity by transmitting […]

What is the first step in responding to any sports injury? Explain why the first step in responding to any sports injury is to remove the danger that lead to the injury. When someone sustains an injury while participating in sports, that indicates that something unexpected has occurred. How does compression help swelling? Compression Applying […]