You are on the roof of the physics building, 46 m above the ground. Your physics professor, who is 1.80 m tall, is walking alongside the building at a constant speed of 1.20 m/s. If you wish to drop an egg on your professor’s head, where should the professor be when you release the egg? Assume that the egg is in free fall.

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A: Imagine a puck is initially sliding diagonally across a table. It's being slowed down by forces…

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Q: The Denver Nuggets Super mascot, Rocky, can fire T-shirts out of a  potato cannon at a rate of 65…

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Q: A seagull flies horizontally over the ocean at a constant speed of 2.30 m / s carries a small fish…

A: Given values -  Initial speed = 2.3 ms-1 Time = 21.15 s

Q: From the top of a tall building, a gun is fired. The bullet leaves the gun at a speed of 340 m/s,…

A: in this question we determine  distance D and H. we simply use newtons equation of motion. v = 340…

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A: Given: Initial velocity of space-vehicle is u=3308 m/s making an angle 42° with positive x-axis.…

Q: You are on the roof of a Physics Building, 23 m above the ground. Your physics professor, who is…

A: Given quantities: Height of the building (H) = 23 m height of the professor (h) = 1.88 m speed of…

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Q: ighing 130 kg carries a 21-kg basket and is descending with a constant velocity of 21.0 m/s. A…

A: The mass of the balloon is M = 130 kg  The  mass of the basket is m = 21 kg  both descending with…

Q: You are standing 5.0 meters from a vertical wall that is 5.0 meters high. You throw a small ball at…

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Q: You are on the roof of a Physics Building, 54 m above the ground. Your physics professor, who is 1.7…

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Q: You are on the roof of a Physics Building, 28 m above the ground. Your physics professor, who is…

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Q: A rocket starts from rest and moves upward from thesurface of the earth. For the first 10.0 s of its…

A: Given: The function for vertical acceleration for first 10 sec ay = (12.8 m/s3)2t.

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Q: 2. SpaceX engineers is planning to build a 2-stage rocket which has a-t graph as shown. By their…

A: The acceleration up to 20 seconds is 22 m/s2 which is stage A and from 20 to 30 seconds the…

Q: A Chinook (King) salmon (Genus Oncorynchus) can jump out of water with a speed of 5.89 m/s. (See…

A: fish speed = 5.89m/s vertically upwards fish leave the water traveling vertically upwards

Q: You are on the roof of a Physics Building, 12 m above the ground. Your physics professor, who is…

A: Given data: -  The height of the building is H = 12 m. The height of the professor is h = 1.72 m.…

Q: You are on the roof of a Physics Building, 15 m above the ground. Your physics professor, who is…

A: Given : yo = 15 m y = 1.72 m vox = 1.39 m/s

Q: A woman on a bridge 104 m high sees a raft floating at a constant speed on the river below. She…

A: Height of bridge h= 104 m Distance of raft from bridge d1 = 4.96 m Distance between raft and stone…

Q: A golf ball leaves the ground with an initial velocity of 50m/s in the horizontal direction and 40…

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Q: Two kittens are running toward each other, one is named Chloe and the other is named Luna. Luna runs…

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Q: You are playing Hot Rod toy cars with your nephew and niece. Your nephew wanted to show off how fast…

A: Given: The height of the dining table is (h) =1.0 m The initial velocity of the toy car in a…

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Q: You throw a baseball directly upward at time t = 0 at an initial speed of 12.3 m/s. What is the…

A: The initial velocity of the baseball, vi = 12.3 m/s The acceleration due to gravity, g = 9.80 m/s2…

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Q: You are on the roof of a Physics Building, 31 m above the ground. Your physics professor, who is…

A: Given Data : The speed of the professor is given as v=1.69 ms The height of the building is given as…

Q: A hollow plastic ball is projected into the air. There is significant air resistance opposing the…

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Q: There are two best friends named Kaela and Georgie. Kaela is on top of the first storey building and…

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Q: Buster wants to demonstrate constantly-accelerated motion by letting a frictionless ice cube slide…

A: Concept used: A component of gravity acts horizontal to incline and forces ice-cube down the…

Q: Irina, standing on the edge of a cliff, throws a stone at a 40-degree angle above the horizontal…

A: The angle at which stone is thrown upward = 40o The angle at which stone is thrown downward = - 40o…

Q: A person on the top of a roof of a building (100 m) drops a ball. After 2s passed, a person who…

A: Given: The height of the building is 100 m. The person on the ground throws another ball after 2 s…

Q: Irina, standing on the edge of a cliff, throws a stone at a 40-degree angle above the horizontal…

A: Let the assumed height of the cliff ,Irina standing be h Initial velocity in both cases(u) = 10.0…

Q: You are on the roof of a Physics Building, 26 m above the ground. Your physics professor, who is…

A: Height of Physics building, H = 26 m Height of Professor, h = 1.79 m Velocity at which professor…

Q: You are on the roof of a Physics Building, 41 m above the ground. Your physics professor, who is…

A: Given : yo = 41 m y = 1.62 m vox = 1.85 m/s

Q: A hot air balloon has just lifted off and is rising at a constant rate of 2.0 m/s. Suddenly one of…

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Distance and Speed

The speed, distance and time relation forms the basis of study of motion. You will need these concepts in the study of Mechanics. This concept is applicable for students who are studying the following courses –