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Neglecting air resistence, what is the horizontal distance traveled by this package? Answer in units of m.
A horse canters away from its trainer in a straight line, moving 119m away in 15.0s. It then turns abruptly and gallops halfway back in 5.0s. what is the average speed?
A 15-{rm cm}-diameter CD has a mass of 22 g. What is the CD's moment of inertia for rotation about a perpendicular axis through its center?
A person lifts a 950 N box by pushing it up an incline. If the person exerts a force of 350 N along the incline, what is the mechanical advantage of the incline?
An artillery shell is fired with an initial velocity of 300 m/s at 64.0° above the horizontal. To clear an avalanche, it explodes on a mountainside 47.0 s after firing. What are the x and y comp
A wire 2.00 m long and 1.00 mm in diameter has a resistance of 0.5000 ohms. A second wire 4.00 m long and 2.00 mm diameter has twice the resistivity of the first wire. Find the resistance of the se
A Carnot engine performs work at the rate of 380 kW while using 710 kcal of heat per second.If the temperature of the heat source is 590, at what temperature is the waste heat exhausted?
A highway curve with radius 800 is to be banked so that a car traveling 56.0 will not skid sideways even in the absence of friction. At what angle should the curve be banked?
A 15.0 kilo-ohm resistance and a capacitor connected in series and then a 12.0V potential difference is suddenly applied them.The potential difference across the capacitor raises to 5.00V in 1.30 m
How much time will it take for the police officer to reach the speeder, assuming that the speeder maintains a constant speed?
The coefficient of static friction between a certain cylinder and a horizontal floor is 0.46. If the rotational inertia of the cylinder about its symmetry axis is given by I = 0.5MR2, then what is
The person in the middle weighs 235 N, and the tensions in each rope are 200 N. What is the weight of the staging?
Suppose a 76 kg person hangs vertically from a nylon rope. What radius must the rope have if its fractional increase in length is to be the same as that of the spider's thread?
A 0.31kg mass attached to a spring undergoes simple harmonic motion with a period of 0.72s. What is the force constant of the spring?
What is the acceleration of two falling sky divers (mass 119.0 kg including parachute) when the upward force of air resistance is equal to one-fourth of their weight?
Ben sees a lightning bolt strike a building that he knows to be 980 meters away. Assume that the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s. How long before ben hears the thunder?
A spring stretches 4.1 cm when a 11 g mass is hung from it. If a total mass of 25 g attached to this spring oscillates in simple harmonic motion, calculate the period of motion.
When identical amounts of heat are supplied to each, the glass bar reaches a temperature of 95 °C, while the other bar reaches 281.0 °C. What is the specific heat capacity of the other subst
A spacecraft that is initially at rest turns on its engine at t = 0. If its mass is m = 2780 kg and the force from the engine is 40 N, what is the acceleration of the spacecraft?
How many 90-rm W, 120-rm V light bulbs can be connected to a 20-rm A, 120-rm V circuit without tripping the circuit breaker? (Note: This description of a light bulb gives the power it dissipates whe
A pulley of 5cm radius on a motor is turning at 30 rps and slows down uniformly to 20rps in 2 seconds. Find angular acceleration, number of revolutions and the length of the belt it winds.
Three equal point charges, each with charge 2.00 mu C, are placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle whose sides are of length 0.400 m. What is the electric potential energy U of the system?
The height of each bounce above the equilibrium position is 0.45cm. Determine (a) the amplitude and (b) the angular frequency of the motion. (c) What is the maximum speed attained by the person?
A helicopter flies over the arctic ice pack at a constant altitude, towing an airborne 118-kg laser sensor that measures the thickness of the ice (see the drawing). The helicopter and the sensor bo