Why must the triceps muscle contract to throw the baseball?

Air is held within a frictionless piston-cylinder container, which is oriented vertically. the mass of the piston is 0.45 kg and the cross-sectional area is 0.0030 m2. initially (state 1) the pressure of the gas is sufficient to support the weight of the piston as well as the force exerted by the atmospheric pressure ( 101.32 kpa). the volume occupied by the air within the cylinder in state 1 is 1.00 liter. one end of a spring (with spring constant k = 1000 n/m) is attached to the top of the piston, while the other end of the spring is attached to a stage that can move vertically. initially the spring is undeflected and therefore exerts no force. then the stage is then moved quasistatically downward a distance of 10.0 cm, at which point the system reaches state 2. the piston-cylinder is not insulated; rather it remains in diathermal contact with the surroundings, which are at a constant temperature of 300 k. what is the change of pressure within the container?

As a car drives with its tires rolling freely without any slippage, the type of friction acting between the tires and the road is 100) a) static friction. b) kinetic friction. c) a combination of static and kinetic friction. d) neither static nor kinetic friction, but some other type of friction. e) it is impossible to tell what type of friction acts in this situation.

The seven sisters, seven stars located more than 400 light-years away in the taurus constellation can be seen here with venus and another constellation, orion. the seven stars stay grouped together but seem to move, like the planet venus. why do stars seem to move like planets in the night sky?