Birds cause a lot of damage to airplanes every year. To study this problem, the U. S. Air Force invented a chicken cannon. Air Force scientists use the cannon to shoot chicken bodies at airplanes in controlled tests. Then they analyze the damage the chicken bodies caused. Evaluate this model. In what way do you think it is helpful? What are some of its limitations?

Some of its limitations are to see how it affects the planes and to observe the damage the birds have taken. Also to see how it affects the planes how much damage was done to the chicken. It is helpful because it makes it so fewer birds are hitting or damaging airplanes every year.

Explanation:

first let us lay out the formula for potential

and kinetic energy:

pe = mgh

ke = (mv^2)/2

where: m=mass, v=velocity, g=gravitational

acceleration, h=height

calculating for mass using the known values of

pe:

340j = m (9.81 m/s^2) (50ft) (1m/3.28ft)

m = 2.27 kg

the law of conservation of energy states that

energy is neither created nor destroyed. therefore, the change in kinetic

energy from 50 ft to 35 ft would be equal to the change in potential energy

from 50 ft to 35 ft. however it would be opposite in signs since one is losing

while other is gaining.

ke(35ft) – ke(50ft) = - [ pe(35ft) – pe(50ft]

ke(50ft) = 0 since the brick is initially at rest

ke(35ft) = 340j - 2.27kg (9.81 m/s^2) (35ft)

(1m/3.28 ft)

ke(35ft)

= 102.38 j

in the analysis of systems that involve fluid flow, we frequently encounter the combination of properties u and pv.