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An egg falls from rest |
2018-05-10 |
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From Amy:
An egg falls from rest a distance of 75cm to the floor.
Neglecting air resistance, at what speed does it hit the floor?
Answered by Penny Nom. |
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An electron in a TV tube |
2013-02-15 |
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From anu:
an electron in a TV tube is beamed horizontally at a speed of (50^6) m/sec. towards the face of a tube 40 cm away
about how far will the electron drop before it hits? no information has been provided of initial height from where it is beamed.
Answered by Robert Dawson. |
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Romeo throws a pebble at Juliet's wondow |
2011-08-22 |
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From Natalie:
There is a picture of Romeo trying to attract Juliet's attention without her nurse who is in a downstairs room, noticing. he stands 10m from the house and lobs a small pebble at her bedroom window (3.5m high). Romeo throws the pebble from a height of 1m with a speed of 11.5m/s at an angle of 60degrees to the horizontal. I have already found that it take 1.74seconds to reach the window and that it does in fact hit Juliet's window however i cannot work out the speed of the pebble when it hits the window! The answer is 9.12m/s but I cannot reach this answer. Hope you can help me :)
Answered by Robert Dawson. |
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Initial Velocity of a Car Plunging Off a Cliff |
2009-06-07 |
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From Mimi:
A car fails to take a sharp turn on a flat road and plunges off a cliff. The car lands 65m horizontally and 43m vertically from where it left the edge of the cliff. How fast was the car travelling?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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A Falling Rock |
2008-07-11 |
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From Rita:
This question has 3 parts.
If a rock falls from a height of 20 meters on the planet Jupiter, its height H
(in meters) after x seconds is about H(x) = 20 - 13x^2
(a) What is the height of the rock when x = 1.2 seconds?
(b) When is the height of the rock 15 meters?
(c) When does the rock strike the ground?
Thank you
Answered by Janice Cotcher. |
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Constantly accelerated motion |
2007-10-29 |
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From Priyanka:
A, B and C are three points lying in that order on a straight line. A body is
projected from B towards A with speed 3 m/s. The body experiences an
acceleration of 1 m/s^2 towards C. If BC =20 m, find the time taken to reach C and
the distance travelled by the body from the moment of projection until it reaches C.
Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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The range of a projectile |
2007-09-18 |
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From Claudette:
This is a maximum minimum problem that my textbook didn't even try to give an example of how to do it in the text itself. It just suddenly appears in the exercises.
Problem: The range of a projectile is R = v^2 Sin 2x/g, where v is its initial velocity, g is the acceleration due to gravity and is a constant, and x is the firing angle. Find the angle that maximizes the projectile's range.
The author gives no information other than the formula.
I thought to find the derivative of the formula setting that to zero, but once I had done that, I still had nothing that addressed the author's question.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
Claudette
Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Projectile motion equations |
2007-06-12 |
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From Dillon:
Ron throws a ball straight up with an initial speed of 60 feet per second from a height of 5 feet. Find parametric equations that describe the motion of the ball as a function of time. How long is the ball in the air? When is the ball at its maximum height? What is the maximum height of the ball?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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The path of a cannonball |
2001-01-15 |
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From A student:
Artillerymen on a hillside are trying to hit a target behind a mountain on the other side of a river. Their cannon is at (x, y) = (3, 250) where x is in kilometers and y is in meters. The target is at (x, y) = (-2, 50). In order to avoid hitting the mountain on the other side of the river, the projectile from the cannon must go through the point (x, y) = (-1, 410). Write the equation for the problem.
Answered by Penny Nom. |
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