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On the Apollo 14 mission to the moon, astronaut Alan Shepard hit a golf ball with a golf club improvised from a tool. The acceleration free-fall on the moon is 1/6 of its value on earth. Suppose he hi
If a 1000 MWe (Megawatt electric) reactor operates with a capacity factor of 95% for an 18 month cycle, how much fuel is required for this period if the average burnup of the fuel over several cycles
If a home operates on an average of 1.1 kW electricity, how many fuel pellets of uranium dioxide (UO2) are required to operate the home for 1 year. Assume that each enriched fuel pellet is 10mm in len
Your refrigerator has a mass of 124.7 kg, including the food in it. It is standing in the middle of your kitchen, and you need to move it. The coefficients of static and kinetic friction between the f
coat your cantilever with a layer of receptor molecules, which can bind the pathogen. Each receptor molecule has a molecular weight of 278.1 u, where 1 u = 1.66053886 × 10?27 kg. The receptor mo
The value of mannings roughness coefficient is n= 0.014 and the deischarge per nit width of the channel is q= 3m2/s. Specify if the flow in the cahnnel is sub or supercritical and find the depth and
A target plane flies at 2100 meters. An anti-craft gun fires a projectile with an initial upward velocity of 200 m/sec. Will the projectile ever reach the altitude of the target plane?
Find the input force for a hydraulic system which has a .5 inch diameter input cylinder and a 1.75 inch diameter output cylinder where the output force needs to be 2000 pounds.
Does an 8-dimensional vector space contain linear subspaces V1 , V2 , V3 with no com-mon non-zero element, such thata). dim(Vi) = 5, i = 1, 2, 3? b). dim(Vi) = 6, i = 1, 2, 3?
For which real numbers x do the vectors: (x, 1, 1, 1), (1, x, 1, 1), (1, 1, x, 1), (1, 1, 1, x)not form a basis of R4 ? For each of the values of x that you find, what is the dimension of the subsp
The large swimming pool has a thermal cooling time constant of 12 days. How long will it take for the water temp. to drop from 40 degrees C to 30 degrees C? Actual temp being measured by a digital
There is a general understanding among the public of the traditional sentencing options available to judges while handing out punishment for those convicted of crimes. Increasingly, sentencing optio
A popoular size of scuba diving take is 71.2 ft3 because this is the volume that the compressed air inside the tank would occupy at a normal surface pressure of 1 atm.
Find the maximum horizontal distance that the hole can be away from the innitial position of the ball and the angle at which the ball must be hit to achieve this maximum distance.
A neat diagram of the connection showing the secondary winding of a 3-phase 4 wire (TNT) Transformer supplying three single phase load.
How to calculate the reactions on a beam with I angular point load at 10kn at 60 degrees and a URL of 7kn/m. Beam span is 11m URL from right to left 5m and point load from left to right 3m
What is the final kinetic energy of the nucleus? What fraction of the neutron's kinetic energy K, is transferred to the carbon nucleus?
A ball of mass m bounces horizontally back and forth between two heavy vertical walls, each of mass M>>m. What is the impulse given to a wall during one bounce? How many bounces occur in a giv
Suppose the block is suspended from a vertical cable. The block will therefore swing as a pendulum, increasing its height. What is the maximum height the block will reach?
The fuel is discharged as exhaust gasses with an average speed v (relative to the earth). How fast will the rocket be traveling when the fuel is used up? Neglect gravity and air resistance.
After the ball has made 10 complete round trips, and the first skater is holding the ball, what is the velocity of each skater? What is the total momentum of the system of the two skaters and the
What is the velocity of the first skater immediately after she throws the ball for the first time? What is the velocity of the second skater, immediately after she catches the ball.
[?(water)=1,000 kgm^-3, 1 atm=10^5 N/m^2, g=9.8ms^-2] What would happen the acceleration if instead of an earth ocean this was a robot submarine on Europa (a moon of Jupiter) where the gravity is roug
The density of the buoy at the surface was 661 kg/m^3. What is the density of the buoy when it reaches the ocean floor 6.4 km below given that the bulk modulus of the rubber is a constant 1.8 GN/m^2 &
Modern vacuum pumps make it easy to attain pressures of the order of 10?13atm in the laboratory.At a pressure of 8.35×10?14atm and an ordinary temperature of 291.0K , how many molecules are pres