In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as v) of an object is the magnitude of the rate of change of its position with time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quantity. The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance travelled by the object divided by the duration of the interval; the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as the duration of the time interval approaches zero.
Speed has the dimensions of distance divided by time. The SI unit of speed is the metre per second (m/s), but the most common unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometre per hour (km/h) or, in the US and the UK, miles per hour (mph). For air and marine travel the knot is commonly used.
The fastest possible speed at which energy or information can travel, according to special relativity, is the speed of light in a vacuum c = 299792458 metres per second (approximately 1079000000 km/h or 671000000 mph). Matter cannot quite reach the speed of light, as this would require an infinite amount of energy. In relativity physics, the concept of rapidity replaces the classical idea of speed.
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I haven't taken a physics course yet, this is for independent study, so I don't have the strongest understanding quite yet. I was wondering if I could get some insight to this problem:
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Suppose a fluid passes from having laminar flow, to having a turbulent flow (like when passing after an object). How do fluid speed and fluid density change after that?
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A girl throws a ball high into the air, and at its highest point it lands on a roof, where it gets stuck. You estimate the ball landed at a height of 21.0m from the ground and a horizontal distance of about 20.0m from where it was thrown. What is the speed that the girl threw...
Earth is moving through space. If I throw a ball straight up, it falls down to me and is not left behind. This is obviously because it already carries the momentum of Earth's movement. But if I fire a photon straight up, does it also carry a velocity component in direction of Earth's movement...
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What is the speed of a photon with respect to another photon if:
the two photons are going in the same direction.
they are going in opposite direction?
2. The attempt at a solution
I think the answer to the first question should be zero and to the second one be 2xC; C⇒speed...
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Faraday's law: ∇xE = - ∂B/∂t
emf ε = Bdv
Force : F =ma, Lorenz's force F=q(vxB) ==> ma = IdB
Power : power of battery = εI, mechanical power of the wire = Fv
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I think I solved...
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D=S * TTherefore Distance = Speed of light * TimeAnd then Distance = Speed of light + 7 * TimeWhat is Distance and what is time?
I am trying to get a better understanding about the constancy of the speed of light which is a well-established axiom of current day physics. for the start i want to understand how it is experimentally established and how these results are interpreted. My difficulty here is that this seems to be...
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A disk [m=0.1 Kg; R=0.1 m] rotates about its center of mass [w=40 rad/s], on a smooth floor. A bar [m=0.1 Kg; lenght=R=0.1 m] moves on the floor with a speed Vb=4 m/s. At one point, the bar hits disk's edge in an inelastic collision, and they start rotating together.
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May be this could be an historical question.
Before Einstein, it is suppoused that speed of light in ether is always the same, I´m right?
I mean, if observer O is at rest respect ether and observer O´ is moving respect ether and O´ send a photon to O, the speed at which that photon...
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If you were to travel alongside a train, as fast the train, to you the train would seem stationary. I read that if you were to travel along a photon of light, as fast as the speed of light, that photon would not seem stationary. Is this true? If so, why?
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In retail business there is some...
I saw on a web page a video of tiny Agnes Scott College vs Princeton University from 1966 on GE College Bowl.Agnes Scott won (!), but one of the questions that both schools got wrong was
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The speed of sound in air is about 1,100 feet/sec. The speed of sound in steel is...
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A stunt motorcyclist has to jump across a river 7.0 m wide from a ramp on one side with incline of 10 degrees. (a) What minimum speed the motorcycle must have to successfully land on the opposite side of the river? (b) How long will the motorcyclist be in the air? (Assume...
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The moving proton hits the second proton, which we consider to be stationary. In the moment of central strike gap between the protons is 10(-13)m. What was the initial speed of the moving proton? Proton mass is 1.67*10(-27)kg and charge 1.6*10(-19) C.
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A solid uniform disk of mass 21.0 kg and radius 85.0 cm is at rest flat on a frictionless surface A string is wrapped around the rim of the disk and a constant force of 35.0 N is applied to the string. The string does not slip on the rim.
1- When the disk has moved a...
How fast would the light travel for a SuperBig observer... immagine his head is the size of the Sun, and he is sitting in a room, then he decides to turn on the light in the room... if he is so big, would he have to wait some seconds until the light reaches his eyes? Would it mean that for this...
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Connect this...
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As we know the Average speed = Total distance / Total time but why in the case below
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Do we know enough of the workings of string theory to say what factors give rise to a large or small value of the velocity of propagation of massless fields for a given multiverse?
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The problem I have been working with recently has been deriving the speed of light using maxwells equations, however in order to do this I must make two assumptions; there is no net charge or displacement currents in the space in which I am attemptin to derive the speed of...
Newton's law of gravitation cannot be compatible with relativity because the gravity from a massive object applies a force to all other masses infinitely fast. General relativity is supposed to correct this flaw by setting a speed limit on how fast the effect of gravity can reach a distant...
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I am thinking about converting an old Suzuki GS500E from an internal combustion engine to an electric motor.
At the moment I am having some difficulties with the physics side of things, I would like to...
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A soccer ball is kicked with an initial horizontal velocity of 15m/s and an initial velocity of 16m/s.
What's the speed of the ball 1 second after it was kicked?
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Initial velocity = sqrt([horiz. Velocity]^2 + [vertical Velocity]^2)
Final velocity = initial...
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I often work on a SEM, a type of microscope which is based on electron acceleration between an electron source and the sample you are working on. For this reason and since a few weeks I was wondering how an electron (in term of speed) behaves in a constant and linear electric field...
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The speed of light from a moving source of light is usually recognized indirectly, based on various explanations of phenomena. The speed of light is fairly simple directly measurable on the basis of autonomous and separate measurements of the frequency and wavelength of the light.
Is a similar...
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15.1 The airspeed of the plane is 200m/s, directed north. If the wind speed is 30m/s
in the direction shown, determine the ground speed and the course (angle θ) of the plane.
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The Attempt at a Solution
Is it so far correct the above?
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1-)If an object's total velocity through space-time(four-velocity)is c, for example even we stand still we move with velocity c (through time) and if mass slows down time, can we say mass also increase our velocity in space?
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A baseball has a terminal speed of 42 m/s in air (ρ = 1.2 kg/m^3). What would be its terminal speed in water (ρ = 1.0 x 10^3 kg/m^3)?
A) 0.05 m/s
B) 1.5 m/s
C) 18 m/s
D) 42 m/s
E) 1200 m/s
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