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When the string is 0.619 m long and the speed of the rock is 48.3 m/s, the string breaks. What is the breaking strength of the string?
An 82 kg man drops from rest on a diving board 3.0 m above the surface of the water and comes to rest .55s after reaching the water. what is the net force on the diver as he is brought to rest?
How far could the person jump on the moon, where the free-fall acceleration is g/6 and g = 9.81 m/s2?
A plane is flying horizontally with speed 239 m/s at a height 1820 m above the ground, when a package is dropped from the plane. The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 . What is the horizontal dist
What is the acceleration of two falling sky divers (mass 107.0 kg including parachute) when the upward force of air resistance is equal to one-fourth of their weight?
Remembering that Z = R 2 + ( X L X C ) 2 , at what relative values of XC and XL will the total impedance Z be a minimum?
The image has a magnification of 1.50. (a) How far away are you from the mirror? (b) What is the radius of curvature?
Water flows over Victoria Falls, which is 128 m high, at an average rate of 1.65 × 106 kg/s. The acceleration of gravity is 9.81 m/s2 . If half the potential energy of this water were convert
A 150.0-g sample of a metal at 75.0°C is added to 150.0 g of H2O at 15.0°C. The temperature of the water rises to 17.5°C. Calculate the specific heat capacity of the metal, assuming that
A swimming pool has dimensions 28.0 m 11.0 m and a flat bottom. The pool is filled to a depth of 2.30 m with fresh water. (a) What is the force exerted by the water on the bottom?
Calculate the magnitude of the gravitational force exerted by the human on Mercury. N (c) For comparison, calculate the approximate magnitude of the gravitational force.
One fragment continues to move upward with a speed of 285 m/s following the explosion. The second fragment has a speed of 372 m/s and is moving east right after the explosion. What is the magnitude
Margie (of mass 43 kg) and Bill (of mass 62 kg), both with brand new roller blades, are at rest facing each other in the parking lot. They push off each other and move in opposite directions, with M
A ray of light enters the long side of a 45-90-45prism and undergoes two total internal reflections, as indicated in the figure . The result is a reversal in the ray's direction of propagation. Find
A ranger in a national park is driving at 39 km/h when a deer jumps onto the road 67 m ahead of the vehicle. After a reaction time of t s, the ranger applies the brakes to produce an acceleration of
Let I0 denote the intensity that would be received at point P if only one tower were operating. What is the intensity received at P when all four towers are operating?
A double-slit experiment is set up using red light (l = 714 nm). A first order bright fringe is seen at a given location on a screen. What wavelength of visible light (between 380 nm and 750 nm) wo
A constant vertical force, F = 185.6 N , is applied to the upper block. What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the system?
An electron is released from rest at a point midway between the charges and moves along the line connecting them. What is the electric potential energy of the electron when it is at midpoint a
At low frequencies the dielectric constant of a medium is 5.6. The speed of light is 2.998 × 10^8 m/s. Find the speed of low-frequency radio waves in the medium. At low frequencies n ≈ &ra
One of them is nearsighted and the other is farsighted. Which person"s glasses will be useful in starting a fire with the sun"s rays?
A 2.2 kg block initially at rest is pulled to the right along a horizontal, frictionless surface by a constant, horizontal force of 13.3 N. Find the speed of the block after it has moved 3.8 m. Answ
Two large, parallel, metal plates carry opposite charges. They are separated by 50mm and the potential difference between them is 350 V.
Which kinematic equation does that suggest that you should use? Solve that kinematic equation for the variable of interest? Plug in the known values and solve for the desired quantity?
A parallel-plate capacitor in air has circular plates of radius 3.7 cm separated by 1.1 mm. Charge is flowing onto the upper plate and off the lower plate at a rate of 5 A. Find the time rate of ch