A student is eating french fries and needs ketchup. He shakes the ketchup bottle as it is turned upside down but the ketchup won't move. He then smacks the bottle and the ketchup moves. However, the ketchup won't stop moving until he turns the bottle upright. This is an example of .

I'm thinking Newton's first law of motion.

Explanation:

"An object at rest remains at rest, or if in motion, remains in motion at a constant velocity unless acted on by a net external force."

answer: at 24 february, 2014 the population gets twice of its initial population.

explanation:

since we have given that

the population for alpha city, t years after january 1, 2004 is given as

first we find out the initial population, i.e. t=0,

so, our quadratic equation becomes,

according to question, we have said that if the population has twice its initial population, then it becomes

so, time taken to reach this above mentioned population is given by

now, we know that time can't be negative so, we take t=9.149 years.

hence, at 24 february, 2014 the population gets twice of its initial population.