The orbital velocity of the Earth about the sun is 30 km/s. If the Earth were suddenly stopped in its tracks, it would simply fall radially into the sun. Devise a plan whereby a rocket loaded with radioactive wastes could be fired into the sun for permanent disposal. How fast and in what direction with respect to the Earth's orbit should the rocket be fired?

Planet will crash on to the Sun if the tangential velocity becomes zero and Rocket should be fired  from Earth's orbit is at 30 m/s and in opposite direction to the Earth orbits the Sun

Explanation:

The orbital velocity of the Earth about the sun is 30 km/s. If we shoot a rocket with 30 km/s with respect to Earth in the opposite direction.  Then the two velocity vectors cancel. The resultant velocity would be zero with respect to the Sun. resulting velocity is called as tangential velocity.

Planet will crash on to the Sun if the tangential velocity becomes zero and Rocket should be fired  from Earth's orbit is at 30 m/s and in opposite direction to the Earth orbits the Sun

quantum mechanics or quantum physics is physics of very small objects (particles) and physical entities.

quantum physics has some parallels to our macro world and some pretty unique ideas which theoretically and mathematically proven to be true even though we will never be able to access them because of our size.

there are many types of particles: subatomic, elementary etc.

subatomic means they are smaller than atom, elementary means they are at the very basis of everything.

subatomic particles are for eg. protons, neutrons but not electrons.

elementary particles are categorised into 3 groups by what they do.

these 3 groups are quarks, leptons and bosons.

light for example is a particle more precisely a photon a part of leptons.

proton (subatomic particle) is made out of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark each of these has a fractional charge like . (i crazy)

most famous scientist who contributed to this physics are:

the topic itself us understand a lot and will probably be vastly used in the future (quantum computers, understanding the big bang,

we also must not forget quantum effects like:

and there is more. but probably too much for this answer to be consistent due to my average understanding of this topic.

hope this you understand quantum mechanics a little more. i'm not an expert in the topic (so don't be like wth if you are an expert) but i'm very interested in it.

anyways quantum physics is a very hard topic (harder than physics (perhaps)) therefore searching for every information there is about it and learning it is unfortunately impossible (you can only specialise into 1 - 3 things or more (perhaps

have fun and i wish you luck!

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