A new roller coaster is advertised as having a perfectly efficient (energy is conserved) first drop without the presence of an additional applied force. Upon riding this roller coaster, a group of students question whether the roller coaster is actually perfectly efficient and want to design an experiment to test this question. The students hypothesized that inclined surfaces approach perfect efficiency as the surface increases in steepness. Design an experiment to test the hypothesis stated by the students above. The student has equipment that is typically found in a high school science laboratory. Identify the variable that will be measured and describe how it will be measured.

A23 kg log of wood begins from rest, 300 m up a sluice (a water track used to transport logs, think of it as an inclined plane with negligible friction) inclined at 20° to the horizontal. after it reaches the flat waterway at the bottom it collides elastically with a 100 kg block of wood initially at rest near the base of the incline. (a) how long does it take the 23 kg log to travel down the incline? (b) what is the speed of the 23 kg log at the bottom of the incline? (c) what are the velocities of both blocks of wood after the collision? (d) what is the total kinetic energy before the collision? (e) what is the kinetic energy of the 23 kg log after the collision? (f) what is the kinetic energy of the 100 kg block of wood after the collision? (g) what is the total kinetic energy after the collision? (h) compare the total initial and total final kinetic energies. is this consistent with what you would expect for elastic collisions? explain!

**urgent** roberto plans to use two transformers to reduce a voltage of 120 v to 4 v. he uses a transformer that has 300 coils in the primary winding and 50 coils in the secondary winding. he has four other transformers, as listed in the table. which transformer should roberto use to have an ending voltage of 4 v? a- w b-xc- yd- z

How do we measure or think of speed in the united states?