Calculate the Kinetic Energy in Joules of an Automobile Weighing

question 106

Multiple Choice

Calculate the kinetic energy in joules of an automobile weighing 4345 lb and traveling at 75 mph. (1 mile = 1.6093 km, 1lb = 453.59 g) .

• A)5.5 × 10^{5 J}
• B)5.5 × 10^-5 J
• C)1.1 × 10⁶ J
• D)2.2 × 10⁶ J
• E)2.2 × 10^-6 J

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Translation

The process in which cellular ribosomes create proteins, decoding the information contained in messenger RNA.

DNA Replication

The biological process of producing two identical replicas of DNA from one original DNA molecule.

mRNA Molecule

Messenger RNA, a type of RNA that conveys genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where it specifies the amino acid sequence of the protein products of gene expression.

Introns

Non-coding sequences of DNA within a gene that are removed by RNA splicing during the maturation of the final RNA product.