1. Using the two equations below, show that the final position of the monkey and ball are the same because of the acceleration due to gravity. At the final position of the monkey and ball, the height of both will be the same. They will also have the same time (t) since they will collide simultaneously. Please arrange your work in an orderly fashion so it may be graded accordingly.
2. How long would it take a projectile shot from a cannon at 145 m/s, aimed at 45° above the horizon, to reach an altitude of 120 m?
3. If the initial velocity of the above cannon were adjustable, what velocity would be required to shoot the ball exactly a distance of 100 m? Use the following equation and solve:
4. The US Army and Marine Corps use
a 39-caliber artillery weapon called the
Ultra-light-weight Field Howitzer (UFH). It fires a projectile at
827 m/s. What is the weapon’s maximum range in combat? (Use the
above equation from problem 3)
5.What would be the effect of firing a projectile in space? What would be its trajectory? Explain your answers.?
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1 Pesticides suspected in mass die-off of bees Text excerpted from March 29, 2012|By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
2 Scientists have identified a new suspect in the mysterious die-off of bees in recent years � a class of
3 pesticides that appear to be lethal in indirect ways. The chemicals, known as neonicotinoids, are designed
4 to target a variety of sucking and chewing insects, including aphids and beetles. Bees are known to ingest
5 the poison when they eat the pollen and nectar of treated plants, though in doses so tiny that it was not
6 seen as a threat.
7 A study published online Thursday by the journal Science indicate that the pesticides are not altogether
8 benign. The study used miniature radio frequency chips to track honeybees and found that the pesticide
9 impaired their ability to navigate back to the hive after a feeding expedition.
10 Beekeepers became alarmed that honeybees were vanishing from their nests across the U.S. in the fall of
11 2006 � victims of a perplexing and pervasive malady now known as colony collapse disorder that wiped
12 out as many as 90% of bees, in some cases. Scientists don't know exactly why the ailment strikes, but
13 they believe it results from a combination of habitat degradation, infection by pathogens and parasites and
14 pesticide use. Researchers have also documented sharp declines in bumblebees, which are important crop
15 pollinators but are not domesticated.
16 Neonicotinoid pesticides were developed to eradicate insects without threatening mammals. The
17 chemicals, which are incorporated into the tissues, leaves and flowers of plants, target the central nervous
18 system, leading to paralysis and death. Farmers began using them in the early 1990s.
19 Past studies have explored effects of neonicotinoids in the lab, finding that they might harm bees'
20 memory, learning and orientation. But the new study is among the first to examine the pesticides' effects
21 on bees under real-world conditions.
22 The study led by researchers from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, or INRA,
23 focused on honeybees, which have been victimized by colony collapse disorder throughout the Northern
24 Hemisphere.
25 First they glued special radio frequency identification tags to the bees' thoraxes. Then they fed the bees
26 sublethal doses of a neonicotinoid and monitored the insects as they attempted to return to the hive.
27 The research team discovered that the "intoxicated" bees were about twice as likely as unexposed bees to
28 die because they couldn't find their way home. Computer simulations suggested that these no-shows could
29 cause hive populations to crash in a matter of weeks, said study coauthor Mickael Henry, a researcher at
30 INRA in Avignon. The weakened colonies would be especially vulnerable to environmental
31 stresses such as climate change or disease, he added.
32
33 The new findings lend support to the notion that pesticides contribute to colony collapse, but
34 leave open the likelihood that habitat destruction and illness play a role too, scientists said.
35 "There are a whole lot of things that stress the honeybees," said Eric Mussen, a honeybee
36 specialist at UC Davis. "You can't point your finger at one thing and say, 'That is the problem.' "
37 Mussen cautioned against singling out neonicotinoids when other pesticides could have similar
38 effects on bees. Besides, he said, many insects have built up immunity to neonicotinoids, so
39 farmers are likely to switch to different pesticides anyway.
B: Bees released at a random location a kilometer away from the hive. Vertical axis shows relative number of bees returning to hive (1 = 100%)
Graph from: Henry, M., Beguin, M., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Odoux, J., Aupinel, P., Aptel, J., Tchamitchian, S., & Decourtye, A. (2012). A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees Science
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In the figure, the top tank, which is open to the atmosphere, contains water and the bottom tank contains oil covered by a piston. The tank on the right has a freely movable partition that keeps the oil and water separate. The partition is a vertical distance 0.10 m below the open surface of the water. If the piston in the bottom tank is 0.50 m below the open surface of the water and has a surface area of 8.3 x 10-3 m2, what must the mass of the piston be to keep the system in mechanical equilibrium. For simplicity, ignore the mass of the partition.
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Physics PreLab- Electrostatistics
What are the three methods of charging-explain each.
What is an electrophorus and how does it work?
When you rub a balloon on your wool shirt, what charge does the balloon attain? What charge does the wool sweater attain?
Go to the lightning website and answer the following:
How hot does air get when Lightning passes through it?
What do we see when lightning occurs: the initial stroke or the return stroke?
Two identical 18 μC charges are separated by 17 cm. What is the electrostatic force between them?
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A 75 kg student jumps off a bridge with a 12-m-long bungee cord tied to his feet. The massless bungee cord has a spring constant of 430 N/m. a. How far below the bridge is the student’s lowest point? b. How far below the bridge is the student's resting position after the oscillations have been fully damped?
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We can show why we don’t have observable radial acceleration effects even though the Earth is
spinning and we can com
ment quickly on the tangential acceleration we experience.
a)
Specifically, show that Cleveland’s centripetal (i.e., radial) acceleration due to the earth’s
rotation is negligible in comparison with the acceleration we feel due to gravity.
Put your
answe
r in “gees” for a direct comparison.
b)
By the way, what is our angular acceleration in Cleveland? (Hoohah!) And therefore what
is our tangential acceleration?
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A very thin circular disk of radius R = 17.00 cm has charge Q = 50.00 mC uniformly distributed on its surface. The disk rotates at a constant angular velocity ? = 5.00 rad/s around the z-axis through its center. Calculate the magnitude of the magnetic field strength on the z axis at a distance d = 1.700 × 10^3 cm from the center. Note that d >> R.
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In this lab you will take data from a video and attempt
to verify the Law of Conservation of Momentum. Additionally, you
will take into account the uncertainty of (most of) the
measurements.
There is no such thing as a perfect measurement. All measurements
have some amount of error. Some of that error comes from mistakes
made while taking the measurement; by slightly misusing the
equipment (for example, not perfectly lining up a ruler) or by
misreading the equipment. As such, it is common to state the
uncertainty of a measurement. This is done by using the plus/minus
symbol; ±. The number following this symbol is the uncertainty. For
example, the measurement "5.2 m ± 0.2 m" has an uncertainty of 0.2
m. Overall, this means: "We believe the value is 5.2 m, we
acknowledge we are probably slightly incorrect, but we are
supremely confident that the actual value lies between 5 m &
5.4 m."
In this lab you will be asked to estimate one uncertainty yourself.
The rest will either be given to you or you will calculate them
using the formulas provided.
Video & data table
The video below shows a dart being fired into a cart (that is initially at rest). The beginning sequence was filmed at 240 frames per second and it took 10 frames for the dart to travel 31 cm. You can use this data to determine the dart's momentum prior to impact. For this calculation, we will assume that the values that were just stated (240 frames per second, 10 frames, & 31 cm) are all exact. Fill in the PRE-COLLISION DATA TABLE.| speed × frame uncertainty |
| # of frames |
momentum uncertainty = mass uncertainty × speed + mass × speed uncertainty
| PRE-COLLISION DATA TABLE | # of frames needed for dart to travel 31 cm |
Δt (s) |
vdart,i (m/s) |
vdart,i uncertainty (m/s) |
pdart,i (g·m/s) |
pdart,i uncertainty (g·m/s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dart | 10 | 0 |
| POST-COLLISION DATA TABLE | # of frames needed for cart to travel 10 cm |
Δt (s) |
vf (m/s) |
vf uncertainty (m/s) |
pf (g·m/s) |
pf uncertainty (g·m/s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cart + dart |
Momentum range
Using the values you calculated for momentum & momentum uncertainty, state the range for the pre-collision momentum & the post-collision momentum in the table below.| minimum momentum (g·m/s) |
maximum momentum (g·m/s) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Dart (pre-collision) |
||
| Cart + dart (post-collision) |
Post-collision velocity
By applying the Law of Conservation of Momentum to this situation, derive a formula for vf. Your answer should be symbolic (no data). Use m for the dart mass, M for the cart mass, and v for the initial velocity of the dart.| dart mass uncertainty × dart speed |
| total mass of cart & dart |
| minimum vf (m/s) |
maximum vf (m/s) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Determined using distance/time | ||
| Determined using conservation of momentum |
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Three particles, charge q1 = +12 µC, q2 = -19 µC, and q3 = +31 µC, are positioned at the vertices of an isosceles triangle as shown in the figure. If a = 10 cm and b = 5.7 cm, how much work must an external agent do to exchange the positions of (a) q1 and q3 and, instead, (b) q1 and q2?
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1.) The femur of an elephant is about 90 cm long and 15 cm in diameter. This is a scaling problem. The largest dinosaur probably weighed about 10 times as much as a large elephant. In this problem we will be discussing scaling. For reference, areas scale as length squared(A=L^2 for a square and A=3.14*r^2 for a circle) and volume scales as length cubed. To describe the size of a dinosaur's femur compared to that of an elephant's, the dinosaur's femur appears to be 3 times as wide and one and a half times as tall.
a.) How do you expect the mass of an animal to scale with the length of typical bone? Use this to estimate the length of the dinosaur's femur.
b.) How do you expect the strength of a bone to scale with its width?(We want a uniform strain (delta L/L) for all animals.) Use this to estimate the width of the dinosaur's femur.
c.) Are your answers to a and b consistent with the description of the size of a dinosaur's femur stated above? Why or why not?
d.) Based on this, briefly argue why whales (2.5 times larger than the largest dinosaurs) are not land animals.
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the following questions are pertaining to an ultrasound. what is the "illumination" source (where does the energy come from)? what interaction are you measuring (reflection, refraction, absorption)? what is the image detecting (what information do you get from the image)?
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Hummingbirds can pick up static charge as they fly either from the air or from interactions with plants. A possible value is +250 pC.
a. Given this charge, did the bird gain positive charge or lose negative charge? Explain.
b. If we model the hummingbird as a sphere with the above net charge attained from the air with a radius of 2.9 cm, what is the electric potential or “voltage” at the bird and 5 cm away from the bird?
c. If we model the bird (charged through interactions with plants) as one side of a capacitor with the earth as the other side with the opposite charge, and the capacitance is 1.3 pF, what is the potential difference between the bird and the earth? (parts b and c are independent questions.)
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The length of a simple pendulum is 0.72 m and the mass of the particle (the "bob") at the end of the cable is 0.21 kg. The pendulum is pulled away from its equilibrium position by an angle of 8.40° and released from rest. Assume that friction can be neglected and that the resulting oscillatory motion is simple harmonic motion.
(a) What is the angular frequency of the motion?
____rad/s
(b) Using the position of the bob at its lowest point as the
reference level, determine the total mechanical energy of the
pendulum as it swings back and forth.
____ J
(c) What is the bob's speed as it passes through the lowest point
of the swing?
____m/s
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Find the wavelength (in nm) of a photon whose energy is 9.00 × 10-19 J.
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Air that occupies a volume of 0.142m3 at a gauge pressure of
103kPa, expands isothermally to zero gauge pressure and then is
cooled to constant pressure until it reaches its initial volume.
Calculate the work done on the gas.
Answer: -5.74 kJ
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