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    How Do You Calculate the Angular Momentum of Big Ben's Clock Hands?

    I have found my mistake... The Inertia was right but I needed I did second part wrong. 2pi/3600s = 1.75E-3 rad/s for minute hand 2pi/43200s = 1.45E-4 rad/s for hour hand then (624.5kg*m^2)( 1.75E-3 rad/s) = 1.110375 for minute hand and repeat for hour hand.
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    How Do You Calculate the Angular Momentum of Big Ben's Clock Hands?

    Homework Statement The hour and minute hands of Big Ben in London are 2.64 m and 4.5 m long and have masses of 69.4 kg and 94 kg respectively. 1) Calculate the total angular momentum of the minute hand about the center point. Treat the hand as long, thin rod. Treat “into the clock”...
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    What is the Angular Deceleration of a Bicycle Wheel?

    Homework Statement A bicycle is turned upside down while its owner repairs a flat tire. A friend spins the other wheel of radius 0.4 m and observes that drops of water fly off tangentially. She mea- sures the height reached by drops moving ver- tically. A drop that breaks loose from...
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    What is the magnitude of the average force exerted on the ball by the wall?

    Would that be the same as I wrote above in the third part of my equations... but what you wrote down is the same thing but without the negative, since we are talking about momentum of average force which should be positive. So I originally had it to start with, but negative because I was...
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    What is the magnitude of the average force exerted on the ball by the wall?

    I have found my error. I plugged in .227 seconds instead of .277 seconds to get the right answer. And to kuruman... I can and it worked. basically, what i did was found the momentum going in minus the momentum going out, the devided by the correct time to get the adverage force. so the...
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    What is the magnitude of the average force exerted on the ball by the wall?

    Homework Statement A 4 kg steel ball strikes a wall with a speed of 16 m/s at an angle of 50.6◦ with the normal to the wall. It bounces off with the same speed and angle, as shown in the figure. http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4498/physicspic1.png" If the ball is in...
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    How Do You Calculate the Speed and Tension in a Rotating Amusement Park Ride?

    Yes, it is the diameter of 10.8 plus the 2.34sin(29.4) then divide by 2 to find radius, but I am still trying to find relations to get from not having a time and not having a velocity to finding them.
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    How Do You Calculate the Speed and Tension in a Rotating Amusement Park Ride?

    Here is a diagram : http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7149/captureni.jpg"
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    Can You Identify Which Iron Bar is Magnetic Without Any Tools?

    As to your first question http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html" this explains many ways you can. question 2 ) good luck! :)
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    How Do You Calculate the Speed and Tension in a Rotating Amusement Park Ride?

    I am aware of this, but from what my book has and what I have been trying to find out, I can't seem to figure out where to start since I have to factor in the radius of the axle the chains are attached to. Which is where I am stuck trying to figure out how to start.
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    How Do You Calculate the Speed and Tension in a Rotating Amusement Park Ride?

    Homework Statement A) An amusement park ride consists of a rotating circular platform 10.8 m in diameter from which 10 kg seats are suspended at the end of 2.34 m massless chains. When the system rotates, the chains make an angle of 29.4◦ with the vertical...
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