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    Help With Homework: Measuring Global Warming Temp Change

    Bump. I don't understand where this formula comes from. The answer in the textbook is 0.07 degrees celsius. Can I have some more hints please? Sorry, I don't understand. :rolleyes:
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    Momentum and Impulse during a collision

    radou said something about not taking direction of momentum into account. I KNEW I LOOKED CRAZY :cry: Anyways, that's the right answer. Thanks so much. I am sastified customer.
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    Momentum and Impulse during a collision

    Durr... I believe you two just gave me opposing information. and I calculate length to be l=0.459m but I lose marks for the wrong answer... durr... EDIT: Durr... the opposing info is gone and now I look like a crazy person. ;'( tear.
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    Momentum and Impulse during a collision

    Durr... I am supposed to find how high the cart bounces back. Or maybe it is length. The 1m is apparently length. Edit: "After the cart bounces, how far does it roll back up the ramp?" Oh and I took the minus sign out because the final momentum is opposite the intial so the minus cancels?
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    Momentum and Impulse during a collision

    Okay thanks, I did that \[mgh = 0.5mv^2\] \[g\sin30 = 0.5v^2\] v= 3.13 m/s So \[J= p_f - p_1\] \[2.67 = 0.5(v_f + 3.13)\] so \[v_f= 2.21 m/s\] then \[mgh = 0.5mv^2\] \[gh = 0.5(2.12)^2\] so h= 0.229m??! Looks like something went horribly wrong somewhere...
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    Momentum and Impulse during a collision

    A 500 g cart is released from rest 1.0 m from the bottom of a frictionless, 30 degree ramp. The cart rolls down the ramp and bounces off a rubber block at the bottom. The figure shows the force during the collision. Here's what I did. Which is probably wrong for the very first part so...
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    Rolls down a ramp and bounces back up

    Hi, I have the same question but where's the 3.13m/s coming from? Here I try to do it the fancy way. I did \[ v^2_f = v^2_i + 2ad \] \[ v^2_f = 0+ 2(mgsinx)(1)\] so /[v_f = 2.21 m/s \] I took area like the last guy expcept I got 2.67Ns Then I did whole bunch of other stuff to...
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    LaTeX Latex Equation Troubleshooting: Fixing the Fraction

    I found this on archive. I just post for 3 seconds. sorry... Hmm--I prefer to keep the static friction coefficients as \mu _{S,1} and \mu _{S,2} until the end, where \left\{ \begin{gathered} \mu _{S,1} = 0.60 \hfill \\ \mu _{S,2} = 0.20 \hfill \\ \end{gathered} \right\} and...
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    What are the horizontal asymptotes of cot^-1(x)?

    So.. why is arccotangent cot(1/x)... I don't understand.
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    What are the horizontal asymptotes of cot^-1(x)?

    What are the horizontal asymptotes of cot^(-1)x I don't understand because isn't that tangent and it has asymptotes?!
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    Calculating Acceleration to Avoid Collision of Enterprise & Klingon Ship

    Thanks much! I also get what I was doing wrong. I was for some reason assuming the enterprise stopped so vf = 0. OH SNAP! I assumed vf for enterprise is equal to velocity of klingon at the end and it turned out right.
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    Calculating Acceleration to Avoid Collision of Enterprise & Klingon Ship

    okay, I'll tell you how I got at it: d= d1 (which is 0) + vi(t) + .5at^2 so I did a= -vi/t in there and that's how I got it. my whole d(enterprise) = .5vi(t) http://dev.physicslab.org/Document.aspx?doctype=3&filename=Kinematics_DerivationKinematicsEquations.xml The end of equation 3...
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    Calculating Acceleration to Avoid Collision of Enterprise & Klingon Ship

    The starship enterprise returns from warp drive to ordinary space with a forward speed of 50 km/s. To the crew’s shocking surprise, a Klingon ship is 100 km directly ahead, traveling in the same direction at a measly 20 km/s. Without evasive action, the Enterprise will overtake and collide with...
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    Relative Velocity Q: An Airplane Flying 35° N of E in 100 km/h Wind

    I am aware of that and I wasn't complaining. Maybe I should though because now I learned you're high. I'm only kidding, sorry you have a disease or mental problem or something. Thanks for the help, this is going to take me awhile. It took me 15 minutes to figure out what that last thing...
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    Solving Trig Equation: 600cosA = xcos35

    How do you solve: 600cosA = xcos35 600sinA - 100 = xsin35 The answer is supposed to be 42.9 or 90 - 42.9 for A in degrees. That equation might not be right though because I came up with it for Physics.
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