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I am entering my final year at my university. I am going to attain a Physics Degree, Math/Science Education Degree, and a minor in Mathematics. Behold...my final semester before student teaching. PHYS 302 - Lab Atomic PHYS 350 - Classical Mechanics I PHYS 480 - Quantum Mechanics PHYS...

Hello, ladies and gentlemen! For the 2010-2011 academic year, I will be a Senior Physics major at my university. Before I ask my question, I need to present some information for you. I have taken some of the following courses in the math/physics sequence: - Differential Equations - Linear...

Homework Statement Sir Lancelot rides slowly out of the castle at Camelot and onto the 12.0-m-long drawbridge that passes over the moat. Unbeknownst to him, his enemies have partially severed the vertical cable holding up the front end of the bridge so that it will break under a tension of...

How exactly do you solve this, though? I keep getting a velocity value that is off by quite a bit. Do you set 0.5mv^2 = the KE at the halfway point as well as the PE at the halfway point? It does not work.

I used E = 0.5kA^2 and found A to be equal to sqrt([2E]/k). To solve for the energy when it is one half of its original value. I made the second energy equation: 05E = 0.5kA^2. I solved for this amplitude and found sqrt(E/k). That means the second amplitude is related to the initial energy by...

Homework Statement I have read the chapter twice and I have read through the notes several times to help me with the homework assignment. It deals with damped Harmonic Oscillations. Problem: You have a mass submerged horizontally in oil and a spring with a k of 85 N/m pulls on a mass of...