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After achieving top speed, he runs the remainder of the race without speeding up or slowing down. The total race is fifty meters long. If the total race is run in 7.82 s, how far does he run during
On a day when the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, a bat emits a shriek whose echo reaches it .025 s later. How far away was the object that reflected back the sound?
A mass is attached to a spring. It oscillates at a frequency of 1.27 Hz when displaced a distance of 2 cm from equilibrium and released. What is the maximum velocity attained by the mass?
A women a toddler pushes a chair at a constant speed with a force of 25.0N for a distance of 2.5m. How much work is the child doing on the chair?
Later, the bicyclist climbs the same hill at the same constant speed. How much force (directed parallel to the hill) must be applied to the bicycle in order for the bicyclist to climb the hill?
The magnitude of the car's velocity at the end of stage 2 is 2.8 times greater than it is at the end of stage 1. Find the magnitude of the acceleration in stage 2.
A mass m hanging on a spring has a natural frequency f. If the mass is increased to 4 m, what is the new natural frequency?
A string of linear density 1.5 g/m is under a tension of 20 N. What should its length be if its fundamental resonance frequency is 220 Hz?
The intensity level is 65 dB at a distance 5 m from a barking dog. What would be the intensity level if two identical dogs very close to each other are barking?
A penny is dropped from rest from the top of the Chrysler Building in New York City. Considering that the height of the building is 319 m and ignoring air resistance, find the speed with which the p
The intensity at a distance of 6 m from a source that is radiating equally in all directions is 6.0 X 10-10 W/m2. What is the power emitted by the source?
A mass is attached to a vertical spring and bobs up and down between points A and B. Where is the mass located when its kinetic energy is a minimum?
The frequency of a wave increases. What happens to the distance between successive crests if the speed remains constant?
You can obtain a rough estimate of the size of a molecule by the following simple experiment. Let a droplet of oil spread out on a smooth water surface.
A mass vibrates back and forth from the free end of an ideal spring of spring constant 20 N/m with an amplitude of .3 m. What is the kinetic energy of this vibrating mass when it is .3m from its equ
A stretched string is observed to have four equal segments in a standing wave driven at a frequency of 480 Hz. What driving frequency will set up a standing wave with five equal segments?
The helicopter and the sensor both move only in the horizontal direction and have a horizontal acceleration of magnitude 2.87 m/s2. Ignoring air resistance, find the tension in the cable towing the
A wave pulse traveling to the right along a thin cord reaches a discontinuity where the rope becomes thicker and heavier. What is the orientation of the reflected and transmitted pulses?
Objects A, B, & C make up a closed system. A has a charge of 53 C and is traveling east. B has a charge of 50 C and is traveling west. C has a charge of -62 C and is traveling north. All three c
A mass vibrates back and forth from the free end of an ideal spring of spring constant 20 N/m with an amplitude of .25 m. what is the maximum kinetic energy of this vibrating mass?
A wave moves on a string with wavelength λ and frequency f. a second wave on the same string has wavelength 2λ and travels with the same velocity. What is the frequency of the second w
A near-sighted person might correct his vision by wearing diverging lenses with focal length = 55 cm. When wearing his glasses, he looks not at actual objects but at the virtual images of those obje
Two point charges are on the y-axis. A 5.0 µC charge is located at y = 1.10 cm, and a -2.00 µC charge is located at y = -1.90 cm. (a) Find the total electric potential at the origin.
Two speakers are placed side by side and driven by the same frequency of 500 Hz. If the distance from a person to one speaker is 5 meter and the person detects little or no sound, which of the follo
The Space Shuttle travels at a speed of about 7.80 x 103 m/s. The blink of an astronaut's eye lasts about 110 ms. How many football fields (length = 91.4 m) does the Shuttle cover in the blink of an