COLLEGE PHYSICS13th EditionOpenStax Publisher: OpenStaxISBN: 2810014673880
COLLEGE PHYSICS
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Problem 1CQ:
Which of the following is a vector: a person's height, the altitude on Mt. Everest, the age of the...Problem 4CQ:
Two calipers in a national park hike from their cabin to the same spot on a lake, each taking a...Problem 5CQ:
If an airplane plot is told to fly 123 km in a straight line to get from San Francisco to...Problem 6CQ:
Suppose you take two steps A and B (that is, two nonzero displacements). Under what circumstances...Problem 8CQ:
If you take two steps of different sizes, can you end up at your starting point? More generally, can...Problem 9CQ:
Suppose you add two vectors A and B. What relative direction between them produces the resultant...Problem 12CQ:
If the vectors A and B are perpendicular, what is the component of A along the direction of B? What...Problem 13CQ:
Answer the following questions for projectile motion on level ground assuming negligible air...Problem 14CQ:
Answer the following questions for projectile motion on level ground assuming negligible air...Problem 15CQ:
For a fixed initial speed, the range of a projectile is determined by the angle at which it is...Problem 16CQ:
During a lecture demonstration, a professor places coins on the edge of a table, She then flicks one...Problem 17CQ:
What frame or frames of reference do you instinctively use when driving a car? When flying in a...Problem 18CQ:
A basketball player dribbling clown the court usually keeps his eyes fixed on the players around...Problem 19CQ:
If someone riding in the back of a pickup truck and throws a softball straight backward, is possible...Problem 20CQ:
The hat of a jogger running at constant velocity falls off the back of his head. Draw a sketch...Problem 21CQ:
A clod of dirt falls from the bed of a moving truck. It strikes the ground directly below the end of...Problem 1PE:
Find the following for path A in Figure 3.54: (a) the total distance traveled, and (b) the magnitude...Problem 2PE:
Find the following for path B in Figure 3.54: (a) the total distance traveled, and (b) the magnitude...Problem 3PE:
Find the north and east components of the displacement for the hikers shown in Figure 3.52.Problem 4PE:
Suppose you walk 18.0 m straight west and then 25.0 m straight north. How far are you from your...Problem 5PE:
Suppose you first walk 12.0 m in a direction 20° west of north and then 20.0 m in a direction 40.0°...Problem 6PE:
Repeat the problem above, but reverse the order of the two legs of the walk; show that you get the...Problem 7PE:
(a) Repeat the problem two problems prior, but for the second leg you walk 20.0 m in a direction...Problem 8PE:
Show that the order of addition of three vectors does not affect their sum. Show this property by...Problem 9PE:
Show that the sum of the vectors discussed in Example 3.2 gives the result shown in Figure 3.24.Problem 10PE:
Find the magnitudes of velocity vAand vBin figure 3.57Problem 12PE:
Find the components of vtot along a set of perpendicular axes rotated 30° counterclockwise relative...Problem 13PE:
Find the following for path C in Figure 3.58: (a) the total distance traveled and (b) the magnitude...Problem 14PE:
Find the following for path D in Figure 3.58: (a) the total distance traveled and (b) the magnitude...Problem 15PE:
Find the north and east components of the displacement from San Francisco to Sacramento shown in...Problem 16PE:
Solve the following problem using analytical techniques: Suppose you walk 18.0 m straight west and...Problem 17PE:
Repeat Exercise 3.16 using analytical techniques, but reverse the order of the two legs of the walk...Problem 18PE:
You drive 7.50 km in a straight line in a direction 15° east of north. (a) Find the distances you...Problem 19PE:
Do Exercise 3.16 again using analytical techniques and change the second leg of the walk to 25.0 m...Problem 20PE:
A new landowner has a triangular piece of flat land she wishes to fence. Starting at the west...Problem 21PE:
You fly 32.0 km in a straight line in still air in the direction 35.0° south of west. (a) Find the...Problem 22PE:
A farmer wants to fence off his four-sided plot of flat land. He measures the first three sides,...Problem 23PE:
In an attempt to escape his island, Gilligan builds a raft and sets to sea. The wind shifts a great...Problem 24PE:
Suppose a pilot flies 40.0 km in a direction 60° north of east and then flies 30.0 km in a direction...Problem 25PE:
A projectile is launched at ground level with an initial speed of 50.0 m/s at an angle of 30.0°...Problem 26PE:
A ball is kicked with an initial velocity of 16 m/s in the horizontal direction and 12 m/s in the...Problem 27PE:
A ball is thrown horizontally from the top of a 60.0-m building and lands 100.0 m from the base of...Problem 28PE:
(a) A daredevil is attempting to jump his motorcycle over a line of buses parked end to end by...Problem 29PE:
An archer shoots an arrow at a 75.0 m distant target; the bull's-eye of the target is at same height...Problem 30PE:
A rugby player passes the ball 7.00 m across the field, where it is caught at the same height as it...Problem 31PE:
Verify the ranges for the projectiles in Figure 3.41(a) for =45 and the given initial velocities.Problem 32PE:
Verity the ranges shown for the projectiles in Figure 3.41(b) for an initial velocity of 50 m/s at...Problem 33PE:
The cannon on a battleship can fire a shell a maximum distance of 32.0 km. (a) Calculate the initial...Problem 34PE:
An arrow is shot from a height of 1.5 m toward a cliff of height H. It is shot with a velocity of 30...Problem 35PE:
In the standing broad jump, one squats and then pushes off with the legs to see how far one can...Problem 36PE:
The world long jump record is 8.95 m (Mike Powell, USA, 1991). Treated as a projectile, what is the...Problem 37PE:
Serving at a speed of 170 km/h, a tennis player hits the ball at a height of 2.5 m and an angle ...Problem 38PE:
A football quarterback is moving straight backward at a speed of 2.00 m/s when he throws a pass to a...Problem 39PE:
Gun sights are adjusted to aim high to compensate for the effect of gravity, effectively making the...Problem 40PE:
An eagle is flying horizontally at a speed of 3.00 m/s when the fish in her talons wiggles loose and...Problem 41PE:
An owl is carrying a mouse to the chicks in its nest. Its position at that time is 4.00 m west and...Problem 42PE:
Suppose a soccer player kicks the ball from a distance 30 m toward the goal. Find the initial speed...Problem 43PE:
Can a goalkeeper at her/ his goal kick a soccer ball into the opponent's goal without the ball...Problem 44PE:
The free throw line in basketball is 4.57 m (15 ft) from the basket, which is 3.05 m (10 ft) above...Problem 45PE:
In 2007, Michael Carter (U.S.) set a world record in the shot put with a throw of 24.77 m. What was...Problem 46PE:
A basketball player is running at 5.00 m/s directly toward the basket when he jumps into the air to...Problem 47PE:
A football player punts the ball at a 45.0° angle. Without an effect from the wind, the ball would...Problem 48PE:
Prove that the trajectory of a projectile is parabolic, having the form y=ax+bx2. To obtain this...Problem 49PE:
Derive R=v02sin20g for the range of a projectile on level ground by finding the time t at which y...Problem 50PE:
Unreasonable Results (a) Find the maximum range of a super cannon that has a muzzle velocity of 4.0...Problem 51PE:
Construct Your Own Problem Consider a ball tossed over a fence. Construct a problem in which you...Problem 52PE:
Bryan Allen pedaled a human-powered aircraft across the English Channel from the cliffs of Dover to...Problem 53PE:
A seagull flies at a velocity of 9.00 m/s straight into the wind. (a) If it takes the bird 20.0 min...Problem 54PE:
Near the end of a marathon race, the first two runners are separated by a distance of 45.0 m. The...Problem 55PE:
Verity that the coin dropped by the airline passenger in the Example 3.8 travels 144 m horizontally...Problem 56PE:
A football quarterback is moving straight backward at a speed of 2.00 m/s when he throws a pass to a...Problem 57PE:
A ship sets sail from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, heading due north at 7.00 m/s relative to the...Problem 58PE:
(a) A jet airplane flying from Darwin, Australia, has an air speed of 260 m/s in a direction 5.0°...Problem 59PE:
(a) In what direction would the ship in Exercise 3.57 have to travel in order to have a velocity...Problem 60PE:
(a) Another airplane is flying in a jet stream that is blowing at 45.0 m/s in a direction 20° south...Problem 61PE:
A sandal is dropped from the top of a 15.0-m-high mast on a ship moving at 1.75 m/s due south....Problem 62PE:
The velocity of the wind relative to the water is crucial to sailboats. Suppose a sailboat is in an...Problem 63PE:
The great astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that all distant galaxies are receding from our Milky...Problem 64PE:
(a) Use the distance and velocity data in Figure 3.64 to find the rate of expansion as a function of...Problem 65PE:
An athlete crosses a 25-m-wide river by swimming perpendicular to the water current at a speed of...Problem 66PE:
A ship sailing in the Gulf Stream is heading 25.0° west of north at a speed of 4.00 m/s relative to...Problem 67PE:
An ice hockey player is moving at 8.00 m/s when he hits the puck toward the goal. The speed of the...Problem 68PE:
Unreasonable Results Suppose you wish to shoot supplies straight up to astronauts in an orbit 36,000...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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