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    How Do You Calculate Capacitance for Different Types of Capacitors?

    Still confused...how do I convert then? Is it 3.984e-12 pF??
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    How Do You Calculate Capacitance for Different Types of Capacitors?

    Homework Statement The plates of a spherical capacitor have radii 30.3 mm and 33.1 mm. (a) Calculate the capacitance in picofarads. (b) What must be the plate area in square centimeters of a parallel-plate capacitor with the same plate separation and capacitance? Homework Equations C=...
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    Center of mass problem involving shell

    Yeah. Luckily I found that somewhere else or I'd still be lost. I don't know what the direction is , don't care to find it because the question doesn't ask for it. But it will have something to do with arctan(y/x) ;)
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    Center of mass problem involving shell

    Nobody could point this out I guess but m*v=0.5m*u 2v=u So the new speed is twice the initial
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    Center of mass problem involving shell

    Apparently the new speed is 2(13.52m) ?
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    Center of mass problem involving shell

    just realized I posted this twice. My apologies.
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    Center of mass problem involving shell

    Homework Statement A shell is shot with an initial velocity 0 of 23 m/s, at an angle of θ0 = 54° with the horizontal. At the top of the trajectory, the shell explodes into two fragments of equal mass (Fig. 9-42). One fragment, whose speed immediately after the explosion is zero, falls...
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    Calculating Maximum Compression in a Spring

    You know the initial K and U and u know at the max compression of the spring the energy is just the elastic potential energy 1/2kx^2 and you can set them equal because the energy is conserved
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    Calculating Maximum Compression in a Spring

    Energy is conserved when the block compresses the spring. So you can set up an equation to solve for the max distance d the spring will compress.
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    Conservation of energy and GPE problem

    I'm stumped. Here is what the hint reads: "You then need to set up an energy equation: initial mechanical energy - energy transferred to thermal energy = final mechanical energy." So I have been trying: 106J-(mg/cos27)(0.42)d=mgdsin27 =>d=106J/(mgsin27+(mg/cos27)(0.42)) with mg/cos27 being...
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    Conservation of energy and GPE problem

    Not getting the correct answer. d= 106J/((2.7kg)(9.8m/s^2)sin27-0.42) `=9.144 m The correct answer is 4.837m
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    Conservation of energy and GPE problem

    Ok, so we have 106J+0J=mgdsin27-(0.42)d =>106J= d(mgsin27-0.42) =>d=106J/(mgsin27-0.42) Just realized: we can assume Kf=0 because the bundle will be stopped?
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