COLLEGE PHYSICS13th EditionOpenStax Publisher: OpenStaxISBN: 2810014673880
COLLEGE PHYSICS
Solutions for COLLEGE PHYSICS
Problem 3CQ:
(a) If frequency is not constant for some oscillation, can the oscillation be simple harmonic...Problem 4CQ:
Give an example of a simple harmonic oscillator, specifically noting how its frequency is...Problem 5CQ:
Explain why you expect an object made of a stiff material to vibrate at a higher frequency than a...Problem 6CQ:
As you pass freight truck with a trailer on a highway, you notice mat its trailer is bouncing up and...Problem 7CQ:
Some people modify cars to be much closet to me ground man when manufactured. Should they install...Problem 8CQ:
Pendulum clocks are made to run at the correct rate by adjusting the pendulum's length. Suppose you...Problem 9CQ:
Explain in terms of energy how dissipative forces such as friction reduce the amplitude of a...Problem 10CQ:
Give an example of a damped harmonic oscillator. (They we more common than undamped or simple...Problem 11CQ:
How would a car bounce after a bump under each of these conditions? • overdamping • underdamping •...Problem 12CQ:
Most harmonic oscillators are damped and, if undriven, eventually come to a stop. How is this...Problem 13CQ:
Why are soldiers in general ordered to “route step" (walk out of step) across a bridge?Problem 14CQ:
Give one example of a transverse wave and another of a longitudinal wave, being careful to note the...Problem 15CQ:
What is the difference between propagation speed and the frequency of a wave? Does one or both...Problem 16CQ:
Speakers in stereo systems have two colorcoded terminals to indicate how to hook up the wires. If...Problem 17CQ:
Two identical waves undergo pure constructive interference. Is the resultant intensity twice that of...Problem 18CQ:
Circular water waves decrease in amplitude as they move away from where a rock is dropped. Explain...Problem 1PE:
Fish ate hung on a spring scale to determine their mass (most fishermen feel no obligation to...Problem 2PE:
It is weighin time for the local under85kg rugby team. The bathroom scale used to assess eligibility...Problem 3PE:
One type of BB gun uses a spring-driven plunger to blow the BB from its barrel. (a) Calculate the...Problem 4PE:
(a) The springs of a pickup truck act like a single spring with a force constant of 1.30105N/m. By...Problem 5PE:
When an 80.0kg man stands on a pogo stick, the spring is compressed 0.120 m. (a) What is the force...Problem 6PE:
A spring has a length of 0.200 m when a 0.300kg mass hangs from it, and a length of 0.750 m when a...Problem 7PE:
What is the period of 60.0 Hz electrical power?Problem 8PE:
If your heart rate is 150 beats per minute during strenuous exercise, what is the time per beat in...Problem 11PE:
A tire has a tread pattern with a crevice every 2.000 cm. Each crevice makes a single vibration as...Problem 12PE:
Engineering Application Each piston of an engine makes a sharp sound every other revolution of the...Problem 13PE:
A type of cuckoo clock keeps time by having a mass bouncing on a spring, usually something cute like...Problem 14PE:
If the spring constant of a simple harmonic oscillator is doubled, by what factor will the mass of...Problem 15PE:
A 0.500kg mass suspended from a spring oscillates with a period of 1.50 s. How much mass must be...Problem 16PE:
By how much leeway (both percentage and mass) would you have in the selection of the mass of me...Problem 17PE:
Suppose you attach the object with mass m to a vertical spring originally at rest, and let it bounce...Problem 18PE:
A diver on a diving board is undergoing simple harmonic motion. Her mass is 55.0 kg and the period...Problem 19PE:
Suppose a diving beard wi1h no one on it bounces up and down in a simple harmonic motion with a...Problem 20PE:
Figure 15.46 This child’s toy relies on springs to keep infants entertained. (credit: By...Problem 21PE:
A 90.0kg skydiver hanging from a parachute bounces up and down with a period of 1.50 s. What is the...Problem 23PE:
Some people think a pendulum with a period of 1.00 s can be driven with “mental energy“ or psycho...Problem 24PE:
What is the period of a 1.00mlong pendulum?Problem 25PE:
How long does it take a child on a swing to complete one swing if her center of gravity is 4.00 m...Problem 27PE:
Two parakeets sit on a swing with their combined center of mass 10.0 cm below the pivot. At what...Problem 28PE:
(a) A pendulum that has a period of 3.00000 s and that is located where the acceleration due to...Problem 29PE:
A pendulum with a period of 2.00000 s in one location (g=9.80m/s2) is moved to a new location where...Problem 30PE:
(a) What is the effect on the period of a pendulum if you double its length? (b) What is the effect...Problem 31PE:
Find the ratio of the new/old periods of a pendulum if the pendulum were transported from Earth to...Problem 32PE:
At what rate will a pendulum clock run on me Moon, where the acceleration due to gravity is 1.63...Problem 33PE:
Suppose the length of a clock’s pendulum is changed by 1.000%, exactly at noon one day. What time...Problem 34PE:
If a pendulumdriven clock gains 5.00 s/day, what fractional change in pendulum length must be made...Problem 35PE:
The length of nylon rope from which a mountain climber is suspended has a force constant of...Problem 36PE:
Engineering Application Near the top of the Citigroup Center building in New York City, there is an...Problem 37PE:
(a) What is me maximum 1nreluzmcity at an 85.0kg person bouncing on a bathroom scale having a force...Problem 38PE:
A novelty clock has a 0.0100kg mass object bouncing on a spring that has a force constant of...Problem 39PE:
At what positions is the speed of a simple harmonic oscillator halt its maximum? That is, what...Problem 40PE:
A ladybug sits 12.0 cm from the center of a Beatles music album spinning at 33.33 rpm. What is the...Problem 41PE:
The amplitude of a lightly damped oscillator decreases by 3.0% during each cycle. What percentage of...Problem 42PE:
How much energy must the shock absorbers of a 1200-kg car dissipate in order to damp a bounce that...Problem 43PE:
If a car has a suspension system with a force constant of 5.00104N/m, how much energy must me car‘s...Problem 44PE:
(a) How much will a spring that has a force constant of 40.0 mm be stretched by an object with a...Problem 45PE:
Suppose you have a 0.750kg object on a horizontal surface connected to a spring that has a force...Problem 46PE:
Engineering Application: A suspension bridge oscillates with an effective force constant of...Problem 47PE:
Stems in the South Pacific can create waves that travel all the way to the California coast, which...Problem 48PE:
Waves on a swimming pool propagate at 0.750m/s. You splash the water at one end of the pool and...Problem 49PE:
Wind gusts create ripples on the ocean that have a wavelength at 5.00 cm and propagate at 2.00m/s....Problem 50PE:
How many times a minute does a boat bob up and down an ocean waves that have a wavelength of 40.0 m...Problem 51PE:
Scouts at a camp shake the rope bridge may have just crossed and observe the wave crests to be 8.00...Problem 52PE:
What is the wavelength of the waves you create in a swimming pool if you splash your hand at a rate...Problem 53PE:
What is the wavelength of an earthquake that shakes you with a frequency of 10.0 Hz and gets to...Problem 54PE:
Radio waves transmitted through space at 3.00108m/s by the Voyager spacecraft have a wavelength of...Problem 55PE:
Your ear is capable of differentiating sounds that arrive at the ear just 1.00 ms apart. What is the...Problem 56PE:
(a) Seismographs measure the arrival times of earthquakes with a precision of 0.100 s. To get the...Problem 57PE:
A car has two horns, one emitting a frequency of 199 Hz and the other emitting a frequency of 203...Problem 58PE:
The middleChammer of a piano hits two strings, producing beats of 1.50 Hz. One of the strings is...Problem 59PE:
Two tuning forks having frequencies of 460 and 464 Hz are struck simultaneously. What average...Problem 60PE:
Twin jet engines on an airplane are producing an average sound frequency of 4100 Hz with a beat...Problem 61PE:
A wave traveling on a Slinky® mat is stretched to 4 m takes 2.4 s to travel the length at me Slinky...Problem 62PE:
Three adjacent keys on a piano (F, F—sharp, and G) are stuck simultaneously, producing frequencies...Problem 63PE:
Medical Application Ultrasound of intensity 1.50102W/m2 is produced by the rectangular head of a...Problem 64PE:
The low-frequency speaker of a stereo set hag a surface area of 0.05 m2 and produces 1W 0f...Problem 65PE:
To increase intensity of a wave by a factor of 50, by what factor should the amplitude be increased?Problem 66PE:
Engineering Application A device called an insolation meter is used to measure the intensity of...Problem 67PE:
Astronomy Application Energy from the Sun arrives at the top of the Earth’s atmosphere with an...Problem 68PE:
Suppose you have a device that extracts energy from ocean breakers in direct proportion to their...Problem 69PE:
Engineering Application (a) A photovoltaic array of (solar cells) is 10.0% ef?cient in gathering...Browse All Chapters of This Textbook
Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Nature Of Science And PhysicsChapter 2 - KinematicsChapter 3 - Two-dimensional KinematicsChapter 4 - Dynamics: Force And Newton's Laws Of MotionChapter 5 - Further Applications Of Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, And ElasticityChapter 6 - Uniform Circular Motion And GravitationChapter 7 - Work, Energy, And Energy ResourcesChapter 8 - Linear Momentum And CollisionsChapter 9 - Statics And TorqueChapter 10 - Rotational Motion And Angular Momentum
Chapter 11 - Fluid StaticsChapter 12 - Fluid Dynamics And Its Biological And Medical ApplicationsChapter 13 - Temperature, Kinetic Theory, And The Gas LawsChapter 14 - Heat And Heat Transfer MethodsChapter 15 - ThermodynamicsChapter 16 - Oscillatory Motion And WavesChapter 17 - Physics Of HearingChapter 18 - Electric Charge And Electric FieldChapter 19 - Electric Potential And Electric FieldChapter 20 - Electric Current, Resistance, And Ohm's LawChapter 21 - Circuits And Dc InstrumentsChapter 22 - MagnetismChapter 23 - Electromagnetic Induction, Ac Circuits, And Electrical TechnologiesChapter 24 - Electromagnetic WavesChapter 25 - Geometric OpticsChapter 26 - Vision And Optical InstrumentsChapter 27 - Wave OpticsChapter 28 - Special RelativityChapter 29 - Introduction To Quantum PhysicsChapter 30 - Atomic PhysicsChapter 31 - Radioactivity And Nuclear PhysicsChapter 32 - Medical Applications Of Nuclear PhysicsChapter 33 - Particle PhysicsChapter 34 - Frontiers Of Physics
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