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A light spring is attached to one of them, and the blocks are pushed together with the spring between them (Fig).
At the intersection of Texas Avenue and University Drive, a blue subcompact car of mass 950 kg traveling east on University collides with a maroon pickup truck.
A swimmer wants to swim straight across a river with current flowing at a speed of v1 = 0.27 km/h.
A certain stop light stays yellow for 5 seconds before turning red. Suppose that your maximum deceleration from braking is 2 m/sec2.
If the index of refraction of medium #2 would change, then the refracted angle in medium #3 would also change.
What is light? Is it a particle, wave, or both? Define the wave properties: period, wavelength, amplitude and frequency. What is c?
In one such accident, a 1850 kg car traveling to the right at 1.40 m/s collides with a 1450 kg car going to the left at 1.10 m/s.
Calculate the power at the input to the cell phone receiver, in dBW. Set your answer out as a link budget and include 3 dB miscellaneous losses.
The sail is oriented perpendicular to the direction of the incoming light, in order to intercept as much light as possible.
Does the wave theory of light explain more phenomena than the particle theory? Support your answer with specific details.
If an electric field wave oscillates north and south, and the wave is traveling straight up, then what direction does the magnetic field wave oscillate?
Tom's rocket ship is moving away from Kathy at 0.75c. He fires a laser beam in the backward direction, toward Kathy.
An observer at r = r1 in Schwarzchild geometry sends a light signal in the radial direction toward r = r2 where r2 > r1.
Why don't we generally notice the effects of special relativity in our daily lives? Be specific.
Some time after passing the Earth, the pilot shoots a laser pulse backward at a speed of 3 *10 ^8 m/s with respect to the spaceship.
A spaceship moves away from Earth at a speed 0.874c and fires a shuttle craft that then moves in a forward direction at 0.21c relative to the ship.
Suppose the speed of light were 100 mph. Trains on parallel tracks are approaching each other at speeds of 92.64 mph and 87.89 mph.
Relative to its new rest frame, the spaceship is given a further 0.46c increment 12s later (as measured in its new rest frame; call this boost.
Two airplanes taxi as they approach the terminal. Plane 1 taxies with a speed of 11.0 m/s due north. Plane 2 taxies with a speed of 6.4 m/s.
What evidence exists for the uniqueness or non-uniqueness of human language?
A second supply package (containing all the desserts) is mistakenly dispatched before the spaceship's cargo ejection system has fully recharged.
The particular conditions as set out in the example problem are the used to determine the velocity of the second fragment.
Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we have created with our current pattern of thought.
An introduction to the founding texts of Taoism / Daoism and 3 of the central teachings found within the Taoist school of philosophy - Natural Vs Human.
What other research(s) that differs with Lord Zuckerman's view that apes are qualitatively unlike humans with respect to language capabilities.