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Ch. 6 - Prob. 11MCQCh. 6 - Prob. 12MCQCh. 6 - Prob. 13MCQCh. 6 - Prob. 14MCQCh. 6 - Prob. 15MCQCh. 6 - Prob. 16MCQCh. 6 - In a football game, does a fast-running running...Ch. 6 - Prob. 2CQCh. 6 - Prob. 3CQCh. 6 - Prob. 4CQCh. 6 - Prob. 5CQCh. 6 - Prob. 6CQCh. 6 - Prob. 7CQCh. 6 - Prob. 8CQCh. 6 - Prob. 9CQCh. 6 - Prob. 10CQCh. 6 - Prob. 11CQCh. 6 - Prob. 12CQCh. 6 - Prob. 13CQCh. 6 - Prob. 14CQCh. 6 - Prob. 15CQCh. 6 - Prob. 16CQCh. 6 - Prob. 17CQCh. 6 - Prob. 18CQCh. 6 - Prob. 19CQCh. 6 - If a 60-kg woman is riding in a car traveling at...Ch. 6 - The linear momentum of a runner in a 100-m dash is...Ch. 6 - Find the magnitude of the linear momentum of (a) a...Ch. 6 - Prob. 4ECh. 6 - A 0.150-kg baseball traveling with a horizontal...Ch. 6 - A 15.0-g rubber bullet hits a wall with a speed of...Ch. 6 - Prob. 7ECh. 6 - How much momentum is acquired by a 75-kg sky-...Ch. 6 - Prob. 9ECh. 6 - Prob. 10ECh. 6 - Prob. 11ECh. 6 - Prob. 12ECh. 6 - A loaded tractor-trailer with a total mass of 5000...Ch. 6 - Prob. 14ECh. 6 - In football practice, two wide receivers run...Ch. 6 - A major league catcher catches a fastball moving...Ch. 6 - At a basketball game, a 120-lb cheerleader is...Ch. 6 - A ball of mass 200 g is released from rest at a...Ch. 6 - When tossed upward and hit horizontally by a...Ch. 6 - Prob. 20ECh. 6 - A pool player imparts an impulse of 3.2 N·s to a...Ch. 6 - Prob. 22ECh. 6 - Prob. 23ECh. 6 - Prob. 24ECh. 6 - Prob. 25ECh. 6 - Prob. 26ECh. 6 - A boy catches—with bare hands and his arms rigidly...Ch. 6 - A one-dimensional impulse force acts on a 3.0-kg...Ch. 6 - Prob. 29ECh. 6 - A 50-kg driver sits in her car waiting for the...Ch. 6 - An incoming 0.14-kg baseball has a speed of 45...Ch. 6 - At a shooting competition, a contestant fires and...Ch. 6 - If the billiard ball in Fig. 6.31 is in contact...Ch. 6 - A 15000-N automobile travels at a speed of 45 km/h...Ch. 6 - In a simulated head-on crash test, a car impacts a...Ch. 6 -
A baseball player pops a pitch straight up. The...Ch. 6 - Prob. 37ECh. 6 - In a pairs figure-skating competition, a 65-kg man...Ch. 6 - Prob. 39ECh. 6 - An object initially at rest explodes and splits...Ch. 6 - Prob. 41ECh. 6 - A cherry bomb explodes into three pieces of equal...Ch. 6 - Two ice skaters not paying attention collide in a...Ch. 6 - Prob. 44ECh. 6 - A 1200-kg car moving to the right with a speed of...Ch. 6 - A 10-g bullet moving horizontally at 400 m/s...Ch. 6 - An explosion of a 10.0-kg bomb releases only two...Ch. 6 - A 1600-kg (empty) truck rolls with a speed of 2.5...Ch. 6 - A new crowd control method utilizes “rubber”...Ch. 6 - For a movie scene, a 75-kg stuntman drops from a...Ch. 6 - A 90-kg astronaut is stranded in space at a point...Ch. 6 - Prob. 52ECh. 6 - A moving shuffleboard puck has a glancing...Ch. 6 - Prob. 54ECh. 6 - A ballistic pendulum is a device used to measure...Ch. 6 - Prob. 56ECh. 6 - A proton of mass m moving with a speed of 3.0 ×...Ch. 6 - A 4.0-kg ball with a velocity of 4.0 m/s in the...Ch. 6 - Prob. 59ECh. 6 - At a county fair, two children ram each other...Ch. 6 - In a high-speed chase, a policeman’s car bumps a...Ch. 6 - Fig. 6.36 shows a bird catching a fish. Assume...Ch. 6 - A 1.0-kg object moving at 10 m/s collides with a...Ch. 6 - In a pool game, a cue ball traveling at 0.75 m/s...Ch. 6 - Two balls approach each other as shown in Fig....Ch. 6 -
A car traveling east and a minivan traveling...Ch. 6 - Prob. 67ECh. 6 - Prob. 68ECh. 6 - Prob. 69ECh. 6 - In nuclear reactors, subatomic particles called...Ch. 6 - Prob. 71ECh. 6 - Pendulum 1 is made of a 1.50-m string with a small...Ch. 6 - Show that the fraction of kinetic energy lost in a...Ch. 6 - Prob. 74ECh. 6 - (a) Find the center of mass of the Earth–Moon...Ch. 6 - Find the center of mass of a system composed of...Ch. 6 - Rework Exercise 52, using the concept of the...Ch. 6 - A 3.0-kg rod of length 5.0 m has at opposite ends...Ch. 6 - Prob. 79ECh. 6 - Locate the center of mass of the system shown in...Ch. 6 - Prob. 81ECh. 6 - Prob. 82ECh. 6 - Three particles, each with a mass of 0.25 kg, are...Ch. 6 - Prob. 84ECh. 6 - You are traveling north and make a 90° right-hand...Ch. 6 - Prob. 86ECh. 6 - A young hockey player with a mass of 30.0 kg is...Ch. 6 - In a laboratory setup, two frictionless carts are...
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