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1. A hammer is pounding a nail straight down into a wooden board. Just before the hammer hits the nail, the speed of the hammer is 1.2 m/s. The hammer drives the nail into the wood and stops after the nail goes in a distance of 0.95 cm. The weight of the hammer head is 6N, and in addition to...

i think you do have a chance, merely because you mentioned the main part: you enjoy learning this stuff. i hate to sound cliche, but it sounds as though the real problem is the drugs. I had a similar problem throughout the entire year as well, but i began to look at is as a reward for completing...

What did people think? It may have been the hardest thing I've ever seen, and I am a very prolific calc and phys student. The E&M free response was very very ridiculous, especially #2 where you had to plug in different devices at the terminal and find the current in the parallel resistor. I...

can't you just replace (\cos\tan^{-1}\frac{a}{x}) with \frac{x}{\sqrt{(x^2+a^2)}}...or is that what shootingstar was saying

i figured it out: its because during the collision between the car+truck, its inelastic so momentum is conserved and thus forces is conserved as well (impulse = Ft); however, the two dummies never actually collide with each other and thus do not conserve momentum. Instead the dummies collide...

Homework Statement During a crash test, dummy x12 has a mass of 80 kg and rides in a 1120-kg car. Dummy y17 has a mass of 80 kg and rides in a 7120-kg truck. The vehicles approach each other with velocities of 30 m/s (about 67 miles per hour) in opposite directions (car heading east). The...

mistake on title yea sorry about the title, it wouldn't let me edit it though. :-p thanks for the help!

Homework Statement A small block of mass m is pressed up against a spring. The spring has constant k and is compressed a distance x. The block slides along a track up and around a loop of radius r and down and out on the far side, as shown. At the top of the loop, the loop exerts a...

alright so i assumed that was correct and went on with the problem, but ran into trouble at c. ΣF = ma = mg - .05v a = mg/m - .05v/.25 a = g - .2v dv/dt = a dv/dt = g - .2v dv/(g - .2v) = dt ∫ dv/(g - .2v) = ∫dt ln(g - .2v)/.2 = t - c ln(g - .2v) = .2(t - c) e^{.2(t - c)}...

thats the measure for 0 Celsius in Kelvin

well 1 degree Celsius is equal to 274 Kelvin. the values of each degree are the same though, so I'm not sure what he means by prove it. perhaps you could list the temperature of absolute zero in kelvin and Celsius, then do the same for the freezing and boiling points of water...

so just to make sure I am correct, \int\frac{dv}{g-.2v} is \frac{ln(g-.2v)}{.2} + constant

perhaps his answer is wrong by mistake? talk to other people in the class

Homework Statement A .25kg ball is dropped from rest. Air resistance is f= -.05v a. find v(t) b. What is the terminal velocity of the ball? c. At what time does the ball reach 50% of its terminal velocity? 90%? Homework Equations F=ma F= mg - .05v The Attempt at a Solution Began to...

The top programs AFTER: MIT UC-Berkley Stanford i goofed off my freshman and sophmore years of HS, but have picked it up now, so I'm looking for engineering. I know Vanderbilt stacks up in the top 10, but I'm not sure which other programs are good. If you can, post some of your...