The Mars Curiosity rover was required to land on the surface of Mars with a velocity of 1 m/s. Given the mass of the landing vehicle and parachute is 2270 kg, the drag coefficient is effectively 0.5, the atmosphere density is 0.71 that of Earth (take Earth atmosphere density as 1.2 kg/m3), and the Martian gravitational acceleration is 3.689 m/s2, find the required total frontal area (in m2) of the lander plus a parachute to land at the given velocity. Assume the landing vehicle has achieved terminal velocity as it falls through the Martian atmosphere.

Consider a uniformly charged ring in the xy plane, centered at the origin. the ring has radius a and positive charge qdistributed evenly along its circumference. a)what is the direction of the electric field at any point on the z axis? . b)what is the magnitude of the electric field along the positive z axis? use k in your answer, where k=14πϵ0. d)the ball will oscillate along the z axis between z=d and z=−d in simple harmonic motion. what will be the angular frequency ω of these oscillations? use the approximation d≪a to simplify your calculation; that is, assume that d2+a2≈a2. express your answer in terms of given charges, dimensions, and constants