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A proud deep-sea fisherman hangs a fish of mass m from an ideal spring having negligible mass. What is the period of oscillation of the fish if it is pulled down and released?
When it flows perpendicularly with respect to a magnetic field, as in the drawing, electrodes can be used to measure the small voltage that develops accross the vessel. Suppose the speed of the bloo
An inverted image of an object is viewed on a screen from the side facing a converging lens. An opaque card is then introduced covering only the upper half of the lens. What happens to the image on
The dielectric plate is now slowly pulled out of the capacitor, which remains connected to the battery. Find the energy of the capacitor at the moment when the capacitor is half-filled with the diel
A charge of +3.5 microC is placed on the x axis at x = +0.55 m, while a charge of -15 microC is placed at the origin. Calculate the magnitude and direction of the net electric field on the x-axis at
Traveling at an initial speed of 1.5x10^6 m/s a proton enters a region of constant magnetic field of magnitude 1.5 T. If it protons initial velocity vector makes an angle of 30 degrees with the mag
A 1.20 102 g sample of water at 90.0°C is mixed with 1.20 102 g of water at 10.0°C. Assume no heat loss to the surroundings. What is the final temperature of the mixture?
A double slit is illuminated with monochromatic light of wavelenght 6.00 X 10^-2 nm. The m=0 and m=1 bright fringes are separated by 3.0 cm on a screen which is located 4.0 m from the slits. What is
An object has a kinetic energy of 303 J and a momentum of magnitude 22.9 kg·m/s. Find the speed and the mass of the object.
A copper wire has a square cross section 2.7 on a side. The wire is 3.8 long and carries a current of 4.0 . The density of free electrons is 8.5*10^28 m^-3. Find the magnitude of the electric field
A scaffold of mass 49 kg and length 5.8 m is supported in a horizontal position by one vertical cable at each end. A window washer of mass 77 kg stands at a point 1.0 m from one end. What is the ten
At t=0 a grinding wheel has an angular velocity of 20.0 rad/s. It has a constant angular acceleration of 29.0 rad/s^2 until a circuit breaker trips at time t = 2.20 s. From then on, it turns throug
You hold a meterstick horizontally with the same mass suspended at the end. Rank the torque needed to keep the stick steady; from largest to smallest.
At the top of its trajectory, the projectile explodes into two fragments of masses 0.72 kg and 1.28 kg. At 3.8 s after the explosion, the 1.28-kg fragment lands on the ground directly below the poi
The volume of an ideal gas is increased from 1 m3 to 8 m3 while maintaining a constant pressure of 1000 Pa (1 Pa = 1 N/m2). How much work is done by the gas in this expansion?
The coefficient of kinetic friction between the tires and the road is 0.720. What is the speed of the automobile after 1.30 s have elapsed?
A luge and its rider, with a total mass of 82 kg, emerge from a downhill track onto a horizontal straight track with an initial speed of 43 m/s. Assume that they stop with a constant deceleration of
A ceiling fan with 82-cm-diameter blades is turning at 62 rpm. What is the speed of the trip of a blade 10 s after the fan is turned off?
If a car traveling at 54 km/h will skid 20 m when its brakes lock, how far will it skid if it is traveling at 120 km/h when its brakes lock?
Determine its age assuming that in living trees the ratio of 14C/12C atoms is about 1.2x10-12. Note that the half life of carbon-14 is 5700 years and the Avogadro number is 6.02x1023.
If the translational rms speed of the water vapor molecules (H2O) in air is 534 m/s, what is the translational rms speed of the carbon dioxide molecules (CO2) in the same air? Both gases are at the
The density of the sea water is 1025 kg/m3. The density of ice is 917 kg/m3. How high does the top of the ice block float above the water level?
Your cup of coffee is too hot to drink when served at 95.0C What is the mass of an ice cube, taken from a -24.0C freezer, that will cool your coffee to a pleasant 56.0C?
A compressed spring shoots the block radically outward along a frictionless groove in the surface of the turntable. What is the turntable's angular speed when the block reaches the outer edge?
Two cars are traveling along a straight road. Car A maintains a constant speed of 78 km/h and car B maintains a constant speed of 103 km/h. At t = 0, car B is 36 km behind car A.