Suppose I drop a 44-kg anvil from rest and from such a height that the anvil reaches a speed of 10 m/s just before hitting the ground. Assume the earth was at rest before I dropped the anvil.  (a) What is the earth’s speed just before the anvil hits? The earth’s speed is ____x10^-22 m/s   (b) How long would it take the earth to travel 1.0 μm (about a bacterium’s width) at this speed? It would take ___million years

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3) Suppose I drop a 44-kg anvil from rest and from such a height that the anvil reaches a speed of 10 m/s just before hitting the ground. Assume the earth was at rest before I dropped the anvil.

 (a) What is the earth’s speed just before the anvil hits?

The earth’s speed is ____x10^-22 m/s

 

(b) How long would it take the earth to travel 1.0 μm (about a bacterium’s width) at this speed?

It would take ___million years

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