**Meteorite Energy Impact Analysis****Background:**On August 10, 1972, a large meteorite skipped across the Earth's atmosphere over the western United States and western Canada, similar to a stone skimming across water. The resulting fireball was so bright it was visible in the daytime sky and outshone the typical meteorite trail. The meteorite's mass was approximately \(3.8 \times 10^6 \, \text{kg}\) and its speed was about 16 km/s. Had it entered the atmosphere vertically, it would have struck the Earth's surface at a similar speed.**Tasks:**- **(a) Energy Loss Calculation:** Compute the meteorite's energy loss, expressed as a positive number in joules, that would have accompanied a vertical impact.- **(b) Energy Comparison to TNT:** Convert the meteorite's energy loss to a multiple of the explosive energy of 1 megaton of TNT, which is \(4.2 \times 10^{15} \, \text{J}\).- **(c) Hiroshima Bomb Equivalence:** Compare the meteorite's energy to the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima, equivalent to 13 kilotons of TNT, and determine how many Hiroshima bombs the meteorite impact would correspond to.**Response Fields:**- **(a)** Response box for numerical value and units of energy loss- **(b)** Response box for numerical expression in multiples of TNT- **(c)** Response box for Hiroshima bomb equivalenceStudents are required to insert their calculated values and select the appropriate units for each part of the exercise.

Answered: Image /qna-images/answer/0e1c234b-1a6c-415b-8fe7-77965fe367cd.jpg

On August 10, 1972, a large meteorite skipped across the atmosphere above the western United States and western Canada, much like a stone skipped across water. The accompanying fireball was so bright that it could be seen in the daytime sky and was brighter than the usual meteorite trail. The meteorite's mass was about 3.8 x 106 kg; it's speed was about 16 km/s. Had it entered the atmosphere vertically, it would have hit Earth's surface with about the same speed. (a) Calculate the meteorite's loss of energy (as a positive number, in joules) that would have been associated with the vertical impact. (b) Express the energy as a multiple of the explosive energy of 1 megaton of TNT, which is 4.2 x 1015 J. (c) The energy associated with the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima was equivalent to 13 kilotons of TNT. To how many Hiroshima bombs would the meteorite impact have been equivalent? (a) Number i Units (b) Number i Units (c) Number i Units >

On August 10, 1972, a large meteorite skipped across the atmosphere above the western United States and western Canada, much like a stone skipped across water. The accompanying fireball was so bright that it could be seen in the daytime sky and was brighter than the usual meteorite trail. The meteorite's mass was about 3.8 x 106 kg; it's speed was about 16 km/s. Had it entered the atmosphere vertically, it would have hit Earth's surface with about the same speed. (a) Calculate the meteorite's loss of energy (as a positive number, in joules) that would have been associated with the vertical impact. (b) Express the energy as a multiple of the explosive energy of 1 megaton of TNT, which is 4.2 x 1015 J. (c) The energy associated with the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima was equivalent to 13 kilotons of TNT. To how many Hiroshima bombs would the meteorite impact have been equivalent? (a) Number i Units (b) Number i Units (c) Number i Units >

College Physics

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305952300

Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Publisher:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1CQ: Estimate the order of magnitude of the length, in meters, of each of the following; (a) a mouse, (b)...

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

For years, the tallest tower in the United States was the Phoenix Shot Tower in Baltimore, Maryland. The shot tower was used from 1828 to1892 to make lead shot for pistols and rifles and molded shot for cannons and other instruments of warfare. Molten lead was dropped from the top of the 82.15 m tall tower into a vat of water. During its free fall, the lead would form a perfectly spherical droplet and solidify. Determine the velocity of the droplet right before it hits the ground. (Note: acceleration = -9.81 m/s/s) (Hint: think about the direction the droplet travels when considering its displacement.) ___________m/s
A spaceship with m = 1.00 ✕ 104 kg is in a circular orbit around the Earth, h = 800 km above its surface. The ship's captain fires the engines in a direction tangent to the orbit, and the spaceship assumes an elliptical orbit around the Earth with an apogee of d = 3.00 ✕ 104 km, measured from the Earth's center. How much energy (in J) must be used from the fuel to achieve this orbit? (Assume that all the fuel energy goes into increasing the orbital energy and that the perigee distance is equal to the initial radius.)
Consider an object that is in an elliptical orbit with semimajor axis a = 7.9×106 m about a planet of mass M = 1.0×1023 kg. (a) What is the speed of the object when it is closest to the planet at r = a/4? (b) What is the speed of the object when it is furthest from the planet?
During the Battle of the Hornburg at Helm's Deep in Middle Earth, Aragorn tossed Gimli over a large gap so the dwarf could fight off the orcs trying to break down one of the fortress doors. Nobody believed Aragorn when he boasted about this after the battle, so to prove them wrong, he grabbed a nearby barrel of apples and lifted it up over his head, standing motionless before his listeners. Aragorn has a mass of 70kg and the reaction force from the ground is 160ON. (a) Draw a free-body diagram of Aragorn (b) What is the mass of the apple barrel?
(a) What is the escape speed on a spherical asteroid whose radius is 502 km and whose gravitational acceleration at the surface is 0.870 m/s? (b) How far from the surface will a particle go if it leaves the asteroid's surface with a radial speed of 647 m/s? (c) With what speed will an object hit the asteroid if it is dropped from 665.5 km above the surface? (a) Number i Units (b) Number Units (c) Number Units
The kinetic energy (T) of an object with mass m traveling at a speed v is defined as T = \frac{1}{2}mv^2T=21mv2. What is the kinetic energy (in J) of an object of mass 41 g traveling a velocity of 37 miles per hour? (1 mile = 1.609 km) Round your answer to the tenths (0.1) place.
In 2014, the Rosetta space probe reached the comet Churyumov– Gerasimenko. Although the comet’s core is actually far from spherical, in this problem we’ll model it as a sphere with a mass of 1.0 x 1013 kg and a radius of 1.6 km. If a rock were dropped from a height of 1.0 m above the comet’s surface, how long would it take to hit the surface?
An object is projected from the surface of the earth with a speed of 2.72×104 m/s. What is its speed when it is very far from the earth? (Neglect air resistance.)
Solar energy reached the earth at the rate of about 14000 W/m^2 of surface perpendicular to the direction of the sun. By how much does the mass of the sun decreases in each second? The mean radian of the earth's orbit is 1.5 x10^11m. The surface area of a sphere= 4πr²
(a) What is the escape speed on a spherical asteroid whose radius is 274 km and whose gravitational acceleration at the surface is 0.444 m/s2? (b) How far from the surface will a particle go if it leaves the asteroid's surface with a radial speed of 311 m/s? (c) With what speed will an object hit the asteroid if it is dropped from 289.4 km above the surface?
(a) Evaluate the gravitational potential energy (in J) between two 6.00 kg spherical steel balls separated by a center-to-center distance of 19.0 cm. (b) Assuming that they are both initially at rest relative to each other in deep space, use conservation of energy to find how fast (in m/s) will they each be traveling upon impact. Each sphere has a radius of 5.20 cm. m/s
(a) Evaluate the gravitational potential energy (in J) between two 4.00 kg spherical steel balls separated by a center-to-center distance of 19.0 cm. (b) Assuming that they are both initially at rest relative to each other in deep space, use conservation of energy to find how fast (in m/s) will they each be traveling upon impact. Each sphere has a radius of 5.50 cm. m/s