**13. You are on a train that is traveling at 3.0 m/s along a level straight track. Very near and parallel to the track is a wall that slopes upward at a 12° angle with the horizontal. As you face the window (0.90 m high, 2.0 m wide) in your compartment, the train is moving to the left, as the drawing indicates. The top edge of the wall first appears at window cor- ner A and eventually disappears at window corner B. How much time passes between appearance and disappearance of the upper edge of the wall? 3.0 m/s B B A A 12° Problem 13

**13. You are on a train that is traveling at 3.0 m/s along a level straight track. Very near and parallel to the track is a wall that slopes upward at a 12° angle with the horizontal. As you face the window (0.90 m high, 2.0 m wide) in your compartment, the train is moving to the left, as the drawing indicates. The top edge of the wall first appears at window cor- ner A and eventually disappears at window corner B. How much time passes between appearance and disappearance of the upper edge of the wall? 3.0 m/s B B A A 12° Problem 13

College Physics

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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

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