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    Newton's Laws - Tetherball on a pole

    A tether ball leans against the post to which it is attached (Fig. 5-40). If the string to which the ball is attached is 2.00 m long, the ball has a radius of 0.300 m, and the ball has a mass of 0.400 kg, what are the tension in the rope and the force the pole exerts on the ball? Neglect any...
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    Moment of Inertia: Solving Point A from 3r & 1r Up

    So I have a point A on a graph with x and y axes. From the origin, the point is 3r to the right, and 1r up. I'm to find the Moment of Inertia along the x, y, and z axes. I've found the x and y moments, but not the z and I'm not really sure on how. I'm not getting any ideas from the graph...
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    Finding angular acceleration as a function of time.

    Thanks, my calculus is a bit rusty and I integrated instead of differentiated...
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    Finding angular acceleration as a function of time.

    Hey I'm sorry I'm not a physics genius like you are cepheid. I appreciate the help but I can do without the snide comments. Anyway, I was leaning toward differentiating and I tried it and came out with a wrong answer. Computations were probably inaccurate though.
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    Finding angular acceleration as a function of time.

    A fan blade rotates with angular velocity given by omega_z(t) = gamma - Beta(t)^2 . Calculate the angular acceleration as a function of time. I don't even know where to begin and my book is all but useless. Any ideas?
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    Moment of Inertia of a Wagon Wheel

    Oh! /smack That made that so much more simple. Thanks much.
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    Moment of Inertia of a Wagon Wheel

    A wagon wheel is constructed as shown in the figure. The radius of the wheel is 0.300 m, and the rim has mass 1.36kg . Each of the eight spokes, that lie along a diameter and are 0.300 m long, has mass 0.270kg . What is the moment of inertia? Wouldn't it just be the sum of the masses...
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    Bullet fired at a Block at rest.

    Solved it, had the velocity of the block incorrect and that screwed me up in the final calculation. Thanks.
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    Bullet fired at a Block at rest.

    Bullet is fired at a block resting on a table. The velocity of the bullet is 390 m/s and has a mass of .007kg. The mass of the block is .850kg. The bullets penetrates the block and exits it with a velocity of 130 m/s causing the block to slide a distance of .410 m. What is the coefficient...
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    What is the distance moved by the canoe when a woman walks along it?

    The key is to find the Initial and Final centers of mass. Initial: Woman's CoM = 1m , Canoe's CoM = 2.5...What's the CoM of the entire system? Final: Woman's CoM = 4m , canoe's CoM = 2.5...CoM of System? Final CoM - Initial CoM = your answer
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    A mass-spring system with recoil and friction

    This is what I've done so far Work-energy theorem: E_f-E_i=W_fr: 0-(1/2)*m*v^2=- mu*m*g*2*x x = .5v^2 / (2g(mu)) Max compression of spring W=-mu*m*g*x E_i=(1/2)*m*v^2 ) E_f=(1/2)*k*x^2 Work-energy theorem: (1/2)*k*x^2-(1/2)*m*v^2=-mu*m*g*x Plugged into x and...
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    A mass-spring system with recoil and friction

    An object of mass m is traveling on a horizontal surface. There is a coefficient of kinetic friction, mu , between the object and the surface. The object has speed v when it reaches x=0 and encounters a spring. The object compresses the spring, stops, and then recoils and travels in the opposite...
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