Essential University Physics: Volume 1;...3rd EditionRichard Wolfson Publisher: PEARSONISBN: 9780134197319
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Problem 2FTD:
Does a speedometer measure speed or velocity?Problem 3FTD:
You check your odometer at the beginning of a days driving and again at the end. Under what...Problem 4FTD:
Consider two possible definitions of average speed: (a) the average of the values of the...Problem 7FTD:
If you know the initial velocity v0 and the initial and final heights y0 and y, you can use Equation...Problem 8FTD:
Starting from rest, an object undergoes acceleration given by a = bt, where t is time and b is a...Problem 9FTD:
In which of the velocity-versus-time graphs shown in Fig. 2.14 would the average velocity over the...Problem 10FTD:
If you travel in a straight line at 50 km/h for 1 h and at 100 km/h for another hour, is your...Problem 11FTD:
If you travel in a straight line at 50 km/h for 50 km and then at 100 km/h for another 50 km, is...Problem 12E:
In 2009, Usain Bolt of Jamaica set a world record in the 100-m dash with a time of 9.58 s. What was...Problem 13E:
The standard 26-mile, 385-yard marathon dates to 1908, when the Olympic marathon started at Windsor...Problem 14E:
Starting front home, you bicycle 24 km north in 2.5 h and then turn around and pedal straight home...Problem 15E:
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is expected to continue broadcasting data until at least 2020, when it will...Problem 16E:
In 2008, Australian Emma Snowsill set an unofficial record in the womens Olympic triathlon,...Problem 17E:
Taking Earths orbit to be a circle of radius 1.5 108 km, determine Earths orbital speed in (a)...Problem 19E:
On a single graph, plot distance versus time for the first two trips from Houston to Des Moines...Problem 20E:
For the motion plotted in Fig. 2.15, estimate (a) the greatest velocity in the positive x-direction,...Problem 21E:
A model rocket is launched straight upward. Its altitude y as a function of time is given by y = bt ...Problem 22E:
A giant eruption on the Sun propels solar material from rest to 450 km/s over a period of 1 h. Find...Problem 23E:
Starting from rest, a subway train first accelerates to 25 m/s, then brakes. Forty-eight seconds...Problem 24E:
A space shuttles main engines cut off 8.5 min after launch, at which time its speed is 7.6 km/s....Problem 25E:
An egg drops from a second-story window, taking 1.12 s to fall and reaching 11.0 m/s just before...Problem 26E:
An airplanes takeoff speed is 320 km/h. If its average acceleration is 2.9 m/s2, how much time is it...Problem 27E:
ThrustSSC, the worlds first supersonic car, accelerates from rest to 1000 km/h in 16 s. Whats its...Problem 28E:
Youre driving at 70 km/h when you apply constant acceleration to pass another car. Six seconds...Problem 30E:
An X-ray tube gives electrons constant acceleration over a distance of 15 cm. If their final speed...Problem 31E:
A rocket rises with constant acceleration to an altitude of 85 km, at which point its speed is 2.8...Problem 32E:
Starting from rest, a car accelerates at a constant rate, reaching 88 km/h in 12 s. Find (a) its...Problem 33E:
A car moving initially at 50 mi/h begins slowing at a constant rate 100 ft short of a stoplight. If...Problem 34E:
In a medical X-ray tube, electrons are accelerated to a velocity of 108 m/s and then slammed into a...Problem 35E:
Californias Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) uses an automatic braking system triggered by...Problem 36E:
Youre driving at speed v0 when you spot a stationary moose on the road, a distance d ahead. Find an...Problem 37E:
You drop a rock into a deep well and 4.4 s later hear a splash. How far down is the water? Neglect...Problem 38E:
Your friend is sitting 6.5 m above you on a tree branch. How fast should you throw an apple so it...Problem 39E:
A model rocket leaves the ground, heading straight up at 49 m/s. (a) Whats its maximum altitude?...Problem 40E:
A foul ball leaves the bat going straight up at 23 m/s. (a) How high does it rise? (b) How long is...Problem 41E:
A Frisbee is lodged in a tree 6.5 m above the ground. A rock thrown from below must be going at...Problem 42E:
Space pirates kidnap an earthling and hold him on one of the solar systems planets. With nothing...Problem 43P:
You allow 40 min to drive 25 mi to the airport, but youre caught in heavy traffic and average only...Problem 44P:
A base runner can get from first to second base in 3.4 s. If he leaves first as the pitcher throws a...Problem 45P:
You can run 9.0 m/s, 20% faster than your brother. How much head start should you give him in order...Problem 46P:
A jetliner leaves San Francisco for New York, 4600 km away. With a strong tailwind, its speed is...Problem 47P:
An objects position is given by x = bt + ct3 where b = 1.50 m/s, c = 0.640 m/s3, and t is time in...Problem 48P:
An objects position as a function of time t is given by x = bt4, with b a constant. Find an...Problem 49P:
In a drag race, the position of a car as a function of time is given by x = bt2, with b = 2.000...Problem 50P:
Squaring Equation 2.7 gives an expression for v2. Equation 2.11 also gives an expression for v2....Problem 51P:
During the complicated sequence that landed the rover Curiosity on Mars in 2012, the spacecraft...Problem 52P:
The position of a car in a drag race is measured each second, and the results are tabulated below....Problem 53P:
A fireworks rocket explodes at a height of 82.0 m, producing fragments with velocities ranging from...Problem 54P:
The muscles in a grasshoppers legs can propel the insect upward at 3.0 m/s. How high can the...Problem 55P:
On packed snow, computerized antilock brakes can reduce a cars stopping distance by 55%. By what...Problem 56P:
A particle leaves its initial position x0 at time t = 0, moving in the positive x-direction with...Problem 57P:
A hockey puck moving at 32 m/s slams through a wall of snow 35 cm thick. It emerges moving at 18...Problem 58P:
Amtraks 20th-Century Limited is en route from Chicago to New York at 110 km/h when the engineer...Problem 59P:
A jetliner touches down at 220 km/h and comes to a halt 29 s later. Whats the shortest runway on...Problem 60P:
A motorist suddenly notices a stalled car and slams on the brakes, negatively accelerating at 6.3...Problem 61P:
A racing car undergoing constant acceleration covers 140 m in 3.6 s. (a) If its moving at 53 m/s at...Problem 62P:
The maximum braking acceleration of a car on a dry road is about 8 m/s2. If two cars move head-on...Problem 63P:
After 35 min of running, at the 9-km point in a 10-km race, you find yourself 100 m behind the...Problem 64P:
Youre speeding at 85 km/h when you notice that youre only 10 m behind the car in front of you, which...Problem 65P:
Airbags cushioned the Mars rover Spirits landing, and the rover bounced some 15 m vertically after...Problem 66P:
Calculate the speed with which cesium atoms must be tossed in the NIST-F1 atomic clock so that their...Problem 67P:
A falling object travels one-fourth of its total distance in the last second of its fall. From what...Problem 68P:
Youre on a NASA team engineering a probe to land on Jupiters moon to, and your job is to specify the...Problem 69P:
Youre atop a building of height h, and a friend is poised to drop a ball from a window at h/2. Find...Problem 70P:
A castles defenders throw rocks down on their attackers from a 15-m-high wall, with initial speed 10...Problem 71P:
Two divers jump from a 3.00-m platform. One jumps upward at 1.80 m/s, and the second steps off the...Problem 72P:
A balloon is rising at 10 m/s when its passenger throws a ball straight up at 12 m/s relative to the...Problem 73P:
Landing on the Moon, a spacecraft fires its rockets and comes to a complete stop just 12 m above the...Problem 74P:
Youre at mission control for a rocket launch, deciding whether to let the launch proceed. A band of...Problem 75P:
Youre an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, examining a subway accident in...Problem 76P:
You toss a book into your dorm room, just clearing a windowsill 4.2 m above the ground, (a) If the...Problem 77P:
Consider an object traversing a distance L, part of the way at speed v1 and the rest of the way at...Problem 78P:
A particles position as a function of time is given by x = x0 sint, where x0 and are constants, (a)...Problem 79P:
Ice skaters, ballet dancers, and basketball players executing vertical leaps often give the illusion...Problem 80P:
Youre staring idly out your dorm window when you see a water balloon fall past. If the balloon takes...Problem 81P:
A police radars effective range is 1.0 km, and your radar detectors range is 1.9 km. Youre going 110...Problem 82P:
An object starts moving in a straight line from position x0, at time t = 0, with velocity v0. Its...Problem 83P:
Youre a consultant on a movie set, and the producer wants a car to drop so that it crosses the...Problem 84P:
(a) For the ball in Example 2.6, find its velocity just before it hits the floor, (b) Suppose you...Problem 85P:
Your roommate is an aspiring novelist and asks your opinion on a matter of physics. The novels...Problem 86P:
You and your roommate plot to drop water balloons on students entering your dorm. Your window is 20...Problem 87P:
Derive Equation 2.10 by integrating Equation 2.7 over time Youll have to interpret the constant of...Problem 88P:
An objects acceleration increases quadratically with time; a(t) = bt2, where b = 0.041 m/s4. If the...Problem 89P:
An objects acceleration is given by the expression a(t) = a0cost, where a0 and are positive...Problem 90P:
An objects acceleration decreases exponentially with time: a(t) = a0ebt, where a0 and b are...Problem 91P:
A ball is dropped from rest at a height li0 above the ground. At the same instant, a second ball is...Problem 92PP:
A wildlife biologist is studying the hunting patterns of tigers. She anesthetizes a tiger and...Problem 93PP:
A wildlife biologist is studying the hunting patterns of tigers. She anesthetizes a tiger and...Problem 94PP:
A wildlife biologist is studying the hunting patterns of tigers. She anesthetizes a tiger and...Browse All Chapters of This Textbook
Chapter 1 - Doing PhysicsChapter 1.2 - Measurements And UnitsChapter 1.3 - Working With NumbersChapter 2 - Motion In A Straight LineChapter 2.1 - Average MotionChapter 2.2 - Instantaneous VelocityChapter 2.3 - AccelerationChapter 2.5 - The Acceleration Of GravityChapter 2.6 - When Acceleration Isn't ConstantChapter 3 - Motion In Two And Three Dimensions
Chapter 3.1 - VectorsChapter 3.2 - Velocity And Accelerations VectorsChapter 3.3 - Relative MotionChapter 3.4 - Constant AccelerationChapter 3.5 - Projectile MotionChapter 3.6 - Uniform Circular MotionChapter 4 - Force And MotionChapter 4.2 - Newton's First And Second LawsChapter 4.4 - The Force Of GravityChapter 4.5 - Using Newton's Second LawChapter 4.6 - Newton's Third LawChapter 5 - Using Newton's LawsChapter 5.1 - Using Newton's Second LawChapter 5.2 - Multiple ObjectsChapter 5.3 - Circular MotionChapter 5.4 - FrictionChapter 6 - Energy, Work, And PowerChapter 6.2 - Working With NumbersChapter 6.3 - Forces That VaryChapter 6.4 - Kinetic EnergyChapter 7 - Conservation Of EnergyChapter 7.1 - Conservative And Nonconservative ForcesChapter 7.2 - Potential EnergyChapter 7.3 - Conservation Of Mechanical EnergyChapter 7.4 - Nonconservative ForcesChapter 7.5 - Conservation Of EnergyChapter 7.6 - Potential-Energy CurvesChapter 8 - GravityChapter 8.2 - Universal GravitationChapter 8.3 - Orbital MotionChapter 8.4 - Gravitational EnergyChapter 9 - Systems Of ParticlesChapter 9.1 - Center Of MassChapter 9.2 - MomentumChapter 9.3 - Kinetic Energy Of A SystemChapter 9.4 - CollisionsChapter 9.5 - Totally Inelastic CollisionsChapter 9.6 - Elastic CollisionsChapter 10 - Rotational MotionChapter 10.1 - Angular Velocity And AccelerationChapter 10.2 - TorqueChapter 10.3 - Rotational Inertia And The Analog Of Newton's LawChapter 10.4 - Rotational EnergyChapter 10.5 - Rolling MotionChapter 11 - Rotational Vectors And Angular MomentumChapter 11.1 - Angular Velocity And Acceleration VectorsChapter 11.2 - Torque And Vector Cross ProductChapter 11.3 - Angular MomentumChapter 11.4 - Conservation Of Angular MomentumChapter 11.5 - Gyroscopes And PrecessionChapter 12 - Static EquilibriumChapter 12.1 - Conditions For EquilibriumChapter 12.2 - Center Of GravityChapter 12.3 - Examples Of Static EquilibriumChapter 12.4 - StabilityChapter 13 - Oscillatory MotionChapter 13.1 - Describing Oscillatory MotionChapter 13.2 - Simple Harmonic MotionChapter 13.3 - Applications Of Simple Harmonic MotionsChapter 13.4 - Circular Motion And Harmonic MotionChapter 13.5 - Energy In Simple Harmonic MotionChapter 13.6 - Damped Harmonic MotionChapter 13.7 - Driven Oscillations And ResonanceChapter 14 - Wave MotionChapter 14.1 - Waves And Their PropertiesChapter 14.2 - Wave MathChapter 14.3 - Waves On A StringChapter 14.4 - Sound WavesChapter 14.5 - InterferenceChapter 14.6 - Reflection And RefractionChapter 14.7 - Standing WavesChapter 14.8 - The Doppler Effect And Shock WavesChapter 15 - Fluid MotionChapter 15.1 - Desnsity And PressureChapter 15.2 - Hydrostatic EquilibriumChapter 15.3 - Archimedes' Principle And BuoyancyChapter 15.4 - Fluid DynamicsChapter 15.5 - Applications Of Fluid DynamicsChapter 16 - Temperature And HeatChapter 16.1 - Heat, Temperature, And Thermodynamic EquilibriumChapter 16.2 - Heat Capacity And Specific HeatChapter 16.3 - Heat TransferChapter 16.4 - Themal-Energy BalanceChapter 17 - The Thermal Behavior Of MatterChapter 17.1 - GasesChapter 17.2 - Phase ChangesChapter 17.3 - Thermal ExpansionChapter 18 - Heat, Work, And The First Law Of ThermodynamicsChapter 18.2 - Thermodynamic ProcessesChapter 18.3 - Specific Heats Of An Ideal GasChapter 19 - The Second Law Of ThermodynamicsChapter 19.1 - Reversibility And IrreversibilityChapter 19.2 - The Second Law Of ThermodynamicsChapter 19.3 - Applications Of The Second LawChapter 19.4 - Entropy And Energy Quality
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