"Contour Maps & Cats (Electric Potential)."
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Dear sir/madam,
I am writing this letter to explain how the gravitation of the earth is affected by the electrical potential and electrical energy using contour maps and cats.
The setup for our experiment was as follows.
In the contour maps, we first identified and marked each and every point where we can place our cat. The contours had elevations of different geographical features of the region we used. We then measure the different height of different part of the region we picked. As per the contours, the heights were different. Measurements were done in regard to the 0 point mark or the 0 fit. The lowest point was at the - 400 fits while the highest point was of 500 fits tall. The setup is more illustrated by the picture below.
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The cat we used was moved from one place to the other while taking note any slight changes that occurred to the weight or the mass of the cat if any. To ensure no mistakes were taken, we marked each point the cat was placed with A, B, C and D respectively.
As we continued with our experiment, we noted the weight of the cat at the different points and noticed that there were some slight changes. The weight measured at point A was much lower than that measured at point C, the weight at point C was slightly lower than that of point B and the weight at point B was slightly lower than that at point D. The change gave us the ager to know as to why the drastic change. The reason behind this was, weight as known by scientist is a variable that is dependent on the gravitational force of the earth and is proportional to the product of the masses of two objects acting on each other. However, the other factor that came in was due to the distance between the cat and the bulk of the mass of the earth which is the more the distance the less gravitational force.
To look at the ranking differences, we decided instead of using a cat we used a mouse then used a horse too. Theoretically, a horse weighs much more compared to a cat and similarly a mouse weighs much less to a cat. Literally thinking, the change might be different due to change in the weights. This was done intentionally to figure out the electrical potentiality and energy. Following the same steps, it was found out that the gravitational changes were the same with the 3 animals.
Gravitational energy = mgy where m = mass of the object and gy depend mostly on the gravitational features.
Objects near the Earth's surface have potential energy because of the gravitational interaction with the Earth; potential energy is not associated to a single object, it comes due to interaction of two objects. Similarly, there is an electric potential energy associated with interacting charges. For each pair of interacting charges, the potential energy is given by:
Therefore, at -400 fits the charge is of negative charges and at 500 fits the charges will be positive charge.
References
Giancoli, D. C. (2008). Physics for scientists and engineers. Pearson Education International.
Perkins, D. H. (2000). Introduction to high energy physics. Cambridge University Press.
Spitzer Jr, L., & Chevalier, R. A. (1973). Random gravitational encounters and the evolution of spherical systems. V. Gravitational shocks. The Astrophysical Journal, 183, 565-582.
Stacey, F. D., & Davis, P. M. (1977). Physics of the Earth (Vol. 2). New York: Wiley.