What would become of the earth's orbit (which you may consider to be a circle) if half of the sun's mass were suddenly to disappear? would the earth remain bound to the sun? [hints: consider what happens to the earth's ke and pe at the moment of the great disappearance. the virial theorem for the circular orbit (problem 4.41) with this one.] treat the sun (or what remains of it) as fixed.

1.)the isotope cobalt-60 has a nuclear mass of 59.933820 u calculate the mass defect of cobalt-60 using the following information. mass of proton: 1.007825 u mass of neutron: 1.008665 u 1 u = 931.5 mev 2.)the isotope cobalt-60 has a nuclear mass of 59.933820 u calculate the binding energy of cobalt-60 using the following information. mass of proton: 1.007825 u mass of neutron: 1.008665 u 1 u = 931.5 mev 3.)the isotope cobalt-60 has a nuclear mass of 59.933820 u calculate the binding energy per nucleon of cobalt-60 using the following information. mass of proton: 1.007825 u mass of neutron: 1.008665 u 1 u = 931.5 mev

If two students are running down the hall toward each other, trying to get to class, and they have the same mass and acceleration, what will happen when they collide? will their forces cancel out or will each one experience a reaction?

The discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle was a result of