How does rotational inertia play a role when a quarterback throws a ball so that it spirals in flight? What about a figure skater spinning about her axis of symmetry with her arms outstretched and then pulling them in tight to her body?
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Let's return to Interstates 80 and 680 in rural Iowa, courtesy
of Google Earth. (Open Google Earth using the same file as in the
Pre-Lab, Interstate_80_in_Iowa.kmz. (Do it the
same way you did in the Chapter 1 lab. If you are using Chrome,
there should be a button for this file in the lower left corner of
your screen after you download it. If you are using other browsers,
this file is probably in your Downloads folder.)
Starting from a complete stop, a car gets on I-80 at the I-80 and
I-680 interchange, then drives to Stuart and continues east. After
starting to move, the car accelerates over a distance of 1/4 mile,
until reaching 55 miles per hour and continuing to Stuart at that
constant speed. So between the I-680 interchange and Stuart, the
time and distance can be considered to be composed of two
time/distance parts:
(link) Interstate_80_in_Iowa.kmz (Google maps shows it is 65.5 miles from I680 to stuart)
time(1): the time taken accelerating from 0 mph to 55 mph during the first 1/4 mile
distance(1): the first 1/4 mile over which the car was accelerating
time(2) the time taken to cover the rest of the distance to Stuart going at the constant speed 55 mph
distance(2): the rest of the distance to Stuart after the 1st 1/4 mile
5.A. What is distance(2), the distance to Staurt after the 1st ¼ mile? _______________
5.B. What is the time time(1) spent accelerating, in units of hours?___________
5.C. What is the time time(2) spent driving at the constant speed after the 1st ¼ mile to Stuart? ____________
5.D. - What percentage of the total distance of the trip (distance(1) + distance(2)) between I-680 interchange and Stuart was spent accelerating?
5.E. What percentage of the total time of this trip (time(1) + time(2)) was spent accelerating?
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4. In the comics and movies, the Incredible Hulk often travels great distances by making huge leaps. According to Marvel.com, the Hulk is capable of leaping a horizontal distance of up to three miles (4.28 km) in a single leap.
a. What initial angle should the hulk jump at if he wants to maximize his horizontal distance?
b. What initial velocity must the Hulk jump with if he is going to reach a horizontal distance of 4.28 km.
c. What is the maximum height reached by the hulk during this jump.
d. When Hulk is at the maximum height, what is the magnitude and direction of his velocity?
The inventory consist of
Xo - x initial
X - x final
Vo - velocity initial
V - velocity final
a - accelerate
t - time
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E=1/2 CV^2 E= 1/2 (164 microF) (10^-6 F) (119 V)^2 E= 1.168 J How do you figure out the J from the F V^2
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A) A common practice for a person with a high fever is to take a bath in cool water. Assuming an 80 kg person is really ill and needs to cool down from 40°C to 37°C. What is the minimum amount of water needed for bathing assuming the water begins at room temperature, 25°C? The specific heat of the body on average is 3470 J/kg°C and water is 4186 J/kg°C. 17.
b) Students want to impress their physics teacher by writing an essay which describes the heating of ice at a temperature below 0°C to steam at a temperature above 100°C. Write such a paragraph using the terms energy, temperature, and phase change. Be sure to include a description of the five major stages.
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You have two conducting plates with nothing in between them. Using a voltmeter, you measure the voltage difference between the plates to be 465 V. You release an alpha particle with mass of 6.5×10-27 kg and a charge of 3.2×10-19 C from near the positive plate. What is the kinetic energy of the alpha particle when it reaches the other plate? The distance between the plates is 44.0 cm. b.) You observe an electron move through a uniform electric field. The electron/field-system loses 2480 pJ of electrostatic potential energy as the electron picks up speed. What was the voltage difference between the two points
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A disk-shaped parallel plate capacitor is made with a radius of 2 cm and a plate separation distance of 2/π millimeters. The dielectric is in two layers, each of thickness 1/π mm. The first layer is all composed of a material with dielectric constant 9. The second layer is actually made of two materials in a bullseye pattern. The inner circle has radius 1 cm and dielectric constant 6. The annular ring around it has dielectric constant 4. The entire capacitor is charged up on a 360 V and then disconnected from the voltage source. While it is still charged, the plates are moved farther apart to accommodate another layer 1/π mm thick of material with dielectric constant 1. Find the final voltage and charge on the capacitor. Use 9x10^-12 C²/J·m for the permittivity of empty space.
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Falling Bodies. In the simplest model of the motion of a falling body, the velocity increases in proportion to the increase in the time that the body has been falling. If the velocity is given in feet per second, measurements show the constant of proportionality is approximately
32. a) A ball is falling at a velocity of 40 feet/sec after 1 second. How fast is it falling after 3 seconds?
b) Express the change in the ball’s velocity ∆v as a linear function of the change in time ∆t.
c) Express v as a linear function of t. The model can be expanded to keep track of the distance that the body has fallen. If the distance d is measured in feet, the units of d ′ are feet per second; in fact, d ′ = v. So the model describing the motion of the body is given by the rate equations d ′ = v feet per second; v ′ = 32 feet per second per second.
d) At what rate is the distance increasing after 1 second? After 2 seconds? After 3 seconds?
e) Is d a linear function of t? Explain your answer.
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A particle slides back and forth on a frictionless track whose height as a function of horizontal position x is given by y=ax2, where a = 0.81 m−1 .If the particle's maximum speed is 8.4 m/s , find the turning points of its motion. (x1,x2) in m
Determine the escape speed from (a) Jupiter's moon Callisto, with mass 1.07×1023kg and radius 2.40 Mm, and (b) a neutron star, with the Sun's mass crammed into a sphere of radius 5.60 km .
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The magnetic field 41.0 cm away from a long, straight wire carrying current 4.00 A is 1950 nT.
(a) At what distance is it 195 nT?
(b) At one instant, the two conductors in a long household
extension cord carry equal 4.00-A currents in opposite directions.
The two wires are 3.00 mm apart. Find the magnetic field 41.0 cm
away from the middle of the straight cord, in the plane of the two
wires.
How far is the point of interest from each wire? nT
(c) At what distance is it one-tenth as large?
cm
(d) The center wire in a coaxial cable carries current 4.00 A in
one direction, and the sheath around it carries current 4.00 A in
the opposite direction. What magnetic field does the cable create
at points outside the cables?
nT
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Two in-phase loudspeakers, which emit sound in all directions, are sitting side by side. One of them is moved sideways by 3.0 m, then forward by 7.0 m. Afterward, constructive interference is observed 14, 12, and 34 the distance between the speakers along the line that joins them, and at no other positions along this line.
What is the maximum possible wavelength of the sound waves?
Express your answer with the appropriate units.
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To see how two traveling waves of the same frequency create a standing wave.
Consider a traveling wave described by the formula
y1(x,t)=Asin(kx−ωt).
This function might represent the lateral displacement of a string, a local electric field, the position of the surface of a body of water, or any of a number of other physical manifestations of waves.
a)
Part A
Part complete
Which one of the following statements about the wave described in the problem introduction is correct?
The wave is traveling in the +x direction. |
The wave is traveling in the −x direction. |
The wave is oscillating but not traveling. |
The wave is traveling but not oscillating. |
b)
Which of the expressions given is a mathematical expression for a wave of the same amplitude that is traveling in the opposite direction? At time t=0this new wave should have the same displacement as y1(x,t), the wave described in the problem introduction.
Acos(kx−ωt) |
Acos(kx+ωt) |
Asin(kx−ωt) |
Asin(kx+ωt) |
The principle of superposition states that if two functions each separately satisfy the wave equation, then the sum (or difference) also satisfies the wave equation. This principle follows from the fact that every term in the wave equation is linear in the amplitude of the wave.
Consider the sum of two waves y1(x,t)+y2(x,t), where y1(x,t) is the wave described in Part A and y2(x,t) is the wave described in Part B. These waves have been chosen so that their sum can be written as follows:
ys(x,t)=ye(x)yt(t).
This form is significant because ye(x), called the envelope, depends only on position, and yt(t) depends only on time. Traditionally, the time function is taken to be a trigonometric function with unit amplitude; that is, the overall amplitude of the wave is written as part of ye(x).
Part C
Find ye(x) and yt(t). Keep in mind that yt(t) should be a trigonometric function of unit amplitude.
Express your answers in terms of A, k, x, ω (Greek letter omega), and t. Separate the two functions with a comma.
d)
At the position x=0, what is the displacement of the string (assuming that the standing wave ys(x,t) is present)?
Express your answer in terms of parameters given in the problem introduction.
Part F
At certain times, the string will be perfectly straight. Find the first time t1>0 when this is true.
Express t1 in terms of ω, k, and necessary constants.
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The man fires an 80 g arrow so that it is moving at 80 m/s when it hits and embeds in a 8.0 kg block resting on ice.
How far will the block slide on the ice before stopping? A 7.1 N friction force opposes its motion.
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An electron experiences the greatest force as it travels 3.0×106 m/s in a magnetic field when it is moving northward. The force is vertically upward and of magnitude 8.0×10−13 N .
What is the magnitude and direction of the magnetic field?
Part B
B⃗ has west direction. |
B⃗ has east direction. |
B⃗ has north direction. |
B⃗ has south direction. |
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