Sir Isaac Newton was among the first to observe the movement of objects and express those observations as laws. According to Newton's law of inertia, a body a. in variable motion will remain in motion unless its state of matter changes.

b. with no kinetic energy will remain along a path with a constant radius.

c. with a variable potential energy will remain with a constant, nonzero acceleration.

d. in uniform motion will remain in motion unless it is acted upon by an outside force

After the near spacecraft passed mathilde, on several occasions rocket propellant was expelled to adjust the spacecraft's momentum in order to follow a path that would approach the asteroid eros, the final destination for the mission. after getting close to eros, further small adjustments made the momentum just right to give a circular orbit of radius 45 km (45 × 10^3 m) around the asteroid. so much propellant had been used that the final mass of the spacecraft while in circular orbit around eros was only 545 kg. the spacecraft took 1.04 days to make one complete circular orbit around eros. calculate what the mass of eros must be.

Aball with a mass of 275 g is dropped from rest, hits the floor and rebounds upward. if the ball hits the floor with a speed of 2.40 m/s and rebounds with a speed of 1.70 m/s, determine the following. (a) magnitude of the change in the ball's momentum (let up be in the positive direction.)

Aprotein molecule in an electrophoresis gel has a negative charge. the exact charge depends on the ph of the solution, but 30 excess electrons is typical. what is the magnitude of the electric force on a protein with this charge in a 1600n/c electric field? write in two significant numbers, and also in newton