Let's say you use a 1-foot basketball to represent the Sun and a pea to represent the Earth. About how far must they be placed apart to represent an accurate scale of the Sun to the Earth?

While goofing off at the ice skating rink, a student takes off her shoes and places each of them on the ice. her friend, a hockey player, then shoots a hockey puck at each shoe. the first puck immediately comes to rest after it collides with the left shoe. the second puck rebounds after it collides with the right shoe. if each hockey puck has the same incoming speed, which shoe has greater speed after the collision? the right shoe. both shoes have the same speed. the left shoe.

Madison pushes with a 210-n horizontal force on a 24-kg crate of coffee resting on a warehouse floor. the force of friction on the crate is 74 n. what is the acceleration?

The brightest star in the night sky in the northern hemisphere is sirius. its distance from earth is estimated to be 8.7 light years. a light year is the distance light travels in one year. light travels at a speed of 3.00 × 108 m/s. calculate the distance from earth to sirius in miles. (1 mi = 5280 ft) g