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    Projectile motion and pirate ship

    A pirate ship fires two shells at two identical enemy ships. Shell A hits ship A, which is close by, and shell B hits ship B, which is farther away. The shells are fired at the same speed; neglect air resistance. Select all the statements that are true; e.g., enter AB. 1. The shell fired...
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    How Long Must Zorch Push to Extend Earth's Rotation to 29 Hours?

    i need help with this problem N.B. See eq. 13.26 and table 13.2 on p.382 11. [1pt] Zorch, an archenemy of Superman, decides to slow Earth's rotation to once per 29.0 h by exerting an opposing force at the equator and parallel to it. Although Superman knows that Zorch can only exert a...
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    Estimating Volume of an Average Adult Human

    correction use the cirumfrene of the avg waist to find the radius then find area and mulitply by the hieght.
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    Estimating Volume of an Average Adult Human

    For a current assignment i am trying to determine the volume of an average adult human in metres cubed. My strategy is to mulitply the average hieght by wast circumfrance for a rough estimate and convert to metres however i am having a hard time findng the average waist size. i found that...
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    How Do You Calculate the X-Coordinate in Circular Motion?

    No I am not familiar with converting between rectangular coordinates and polar coordinates this is all new to me. Sorry about posting in the wrong forum.
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    How Do You Calculate the X-Coordinate in Circular Motion?

    Im having a bit of trouble on the last question of my assignment... The circular motion of a particle in the x-y plane is given by the equations: r(t) = 7.23 m, θ(t) = (6.33 rad/s)t, where r is the distance from the origin and θ is the polar angle measured counterclockwise from the positive...
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    Light Speed: Consequences of Relativistic Speeds

    say your traveling in a spacecraft at relatavistic speeds, about .700c and you shoot a laser out of the spacecraft (3.00 x 10^8 m/s foward). How was does the light travel. If you do the same thing but shoot it out the abck the oppossite way how was does the light travel. This was a question...
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    Nyone else here enjoy drinking in the shower?

    If you don't want to drop the bottles just get to big 40 oz bottles of beer tape duct tape on to each hand (also known as edward 40 hands) but good luck washing yourself with bottles of beer taped to your hands and yes i do enjoy a drink in the shower
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    Cable modem so im always connected to the internet

    anyone on here use msn I have have a cable modem so I am always connected to the internet ... however when a program like msn is running does it amke it easier for my computer to become infected with a virus
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    How Many Songs Can You Remember by Heart?

    i think ok i lied 500 but i have 2000 on the pc and i know most of them
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    How Many Songs Can You Remember by Heart?

    i know the words to somewhere in the promximity of 1000 songs
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    What is the tension in the center of the rope in a tug-of-war?

    Yes its 2500 the average force they each pull with is 500. you have to combine them all to find the net force because it asks for tension.
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    How do u find the height of an object thrown straight up

    how exactly is the question worded?
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    'Weather Makers' Seeks to End Climate Debate

    what is meant by energy budget?
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    Finding the Mass Combination for 1/2 g Acceleration in an Atwood Machine

    meh ok i figured it out it was really simple actually and i was going about the problem wrong I am just tired haha
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