One man drops a rock from a 100 m building. At exactly the same moment, a second man throws a rock from the bottom of the building to the top of the building. At what height do the rocks meet?
I have trouble understanding how there can even be an answer to this problem without more info...
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Object A and B are placed on a spring. Object A has twice as much mass as object B. If the spring is depressed and released, propelling the objects into air, object A will:
answer: rise to the same height as object B
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The Attempt at a...
A girl riding her bicycle up a steep hill decides to save energy by zigzagging rather than riding straight up. Ignoring friction, her strategy will:
A. require the same amount of energy but less force on the pedals
B.
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I missed this question and when I saw the correct answer, I couldn't...
[SOLVED] MCAT Passage: Inelastic Collision
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A car (1000 kg) and a truck (2000kg) start from rest on a long, straight track. At time t=0, the truck is at position x=0 and the car is at position x=100m. Both vehicles then accelerate toward each other and collide.
Both the...
I'm working on a chemistry problem and I'm trying to follow the derivation for % ionization (of a weak acid or base) but I can't seem to understand how rearrangement of eq. 6 results in eq. 7.
In more general terms, I started with the Hendreson Hasselbalch equation:
pH = pka + log(A-/AH)...
[SOLVED] Mininum Work to Pull Crate
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A student could either pull or push, at an angle of 30 degrees from the horizontal, a 50 kilo crate on a horizontal surface, where the coefficient of kinetic friction between the crate and the surface is 0.2. The crate is to be moved a...
[SOLVED] Acceleration of Block on an Apparatus
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See the attachment.
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The Attempt at a Solution
I am confused about whether the tensions of the two (left and right) parts of the line are the same or not. Since the three blocks are...
[SOLVED] Tension in a Line
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A rope is fixed at both ends on two trees, and a bag is hung in the middle of the rope, causing the rope to sag vertically. If the tree separation is 10 m, the mass of the bag is 5.0 kg, and the sag is 0.2 m, what is the tension in the line...
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A package is to be dropped from an airplane so that it hits the ground at a designated spot near some campers. The airplane, moving horizontally at a constant velocity of 140 km/h, approaches the spot at an altitude of .500 km above level ground. Having the designated point...
[SOLVED] Distance To Center of Earthquake?
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An earthquake releases two types of traveling waves, called "traverse" and "longitudinal." The average speed of traverse and longitudinal seismic waves in rock are 8.9 km/s and 5.1 km/s respectively. A seismograph records the...
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In an amusement park maze with all the walls covered with mirrors, Pilar sees Hernando's reflection from a series of three mirrors. If the reflected angle from mirror 3 is 52° for the mirror arrangement shown in the figure, in which = 12°, what is the angle of incidence on...
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A horizontal desk surface measures 4.3 m by 2.0 m. If the Earth's magnetic field has magnitude 0.32 mT and is directed 45° below the horizontal, what is the magnetic flux through the desk surface?
Homework Equations
Flux = B*A*Cos(a)
Where A is the area, B is the...
I realize that this is a chem prob, but I'm stuck with what I thought was a straightforward problem while studying for my physical chemistry exam.
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The standard molar enthalpy of combustion of solid phenol (C6H5OH) is -3054 kJ/mol at 298k and it's standard molar entropy...
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A potential difference is applied between the electrodes in a gas discharge tube. In 2.0 s, 3.3*10^16 electrons and 1.2*10^16 singly charged positive ions move in opposite directions through a surface perpendicular to the length of the tube. What is the current in the tube...
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A strip of doped silicon 270 µm wide contains 9.1E22 conduction electrons per cubic meter and an insignificant number of holes. When the strip carries a current of 110 µA, the drift speed of the electrons is 44 cm/s. What is the thickness of the strip?
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A bird sits on a high-voltage power line with its feet 2.0 cm apart. The wire is made from aluminum, is 3.0 cm in diameter, and carries a current of 160 A. What is the potential difference between the bird's feet?
Homework Equations
I=neAv
Where I is current, n is...
I am having a really tough time providing an argument for myself over why the answer is true:
The question:
A parallel plate capacitor is attached to a battery that supplies a constant potential difference. While the battery is still attached, the parallel plates are separated a little...
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As a positron moves through a region of space, its speed decreases from 9.20*10^6 m/s to 2.20*10^6 m/s. The electric force is the only force acting on the positron.
Homework Equations
KE1 + U1 = KE2 + U2
Where KE is kinetic energy and U is potential energy.
The Attempt...
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A tiny sphere with a charge of q = +6.1 µC is attached to a spring. Two other tiny charged spheres, each with a charge of -4.0 µC, are placed in the positions shown in the figure, in which b = 3.6 cm. The spring stretches 5.0 cm from its previous equilibrium position...
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Two tiny objects with equal charge of 85.0 µC are placed at two corners of a square with sides of 0.295 m, as shown. How far above and to the left of the corner of the square labeled A would you place a third small object with the same charge so that the electric field is...