Train Definition and 638 Threads

Homework Statement a train is traveling down a straight track at 20m/s when the engineer applies the brakes resulting in an acceleration of -1.0m/s^2 as long as the train is in motion. how far does the train move durin g a 40 second time interval starting at the instant the brakes are applied...

Homework Statement A radio played on a moving train has frequency of 85 Hz. A second radio played at train station is at rest. What is the beat frequency heard if train approaches the station at 10 m/s? Homework Equations f' = [f \ (1-vsource/vsound) I used this equation because the...

Hello, I have a question for homework. The question reads: A body of mass m=4.8 kg is standing on a ramp inclined in an angle of α=12 degrees. The static friction coeficient between the ramp and the body is μ=0.24. The ramp, which is inclined to the left, is in a train, which accelerates to...

The toys apparently have lead in the paint. I have a feeling that the list below from the Consumer Product Safety Commission is going to grow. I bought these for my grandson from "The Learning Curve". DAMN They should have been covered in gold for what they cost...

Hey guys could some one give me a link to an engineering report on maglev trains. I am doing an assessment on braking systems and have chosen magnetic brakes from the maglev train. So i need a full on complex engineering report on them and info on Hydro-Aire Brakes, Aerodynamic Brakes, Linear...

I have a question about a thought experiment I read about. I think the question or a similar was asked, and I'm sure others have asked this question, but I'm asking it in this way so it can be answered through the framework of my question. The framework of how I'm understanding it, and so that...

OK This maybe a dumb question but we have some debate on this question here at my work. No one here is a physics pro. :) Here's the question. If a train is moving at 5mph and you are moving tward the back of the train at 2 mph. How fast are you going? Now I think the answere is 2 mph do to...

Homework Statement Whistle frequency is 595 Hz for the train and sounds higher or lower depending on whether it approaches it or recedes. Calculate the difference in frequency between approaching and receding train whistle for a train moving at a speed of 105 km/h. Speed of sound is 340 m/s...

1. Tilting trains such as the Acela, which runs from Washinton to new York to Boston, are designed to travel safely at high speeds on curved sections of track which were built for slower, conventional trains. As it enters a curve, each car is tilted by hydraulic actuators mounted on its trucks...

I have some questions which i can't seem to answer and understand. Here goes: Imagine a bee flying inside a moving train moving at a constant velocity in one particular direction. the bee is flying in mid-air and is not in contact with any of the train parts. qns 1: does the bee need to...

Riding the Train --Vecotrs & components A passenger train is cruising directly to the north at 16.0 mi/hr. what are the speed and (numerical) direction of a passenger with respect to the ground on this train, if he now walks east-ward at 5.4 mi/hr? ---Compass heading in degrees: N=0, E=90...

An engine is used to pull a train of 2 cars out of a mine. The floor of themine slopes upward at an angle of 30 degrees. Each car has a mass of 10^4 kg and travels without friction. The engine can exert a max force of 1.5 * 10^5 N if the engineer trttles back so that the force exerted by the...

Homework Statement Three identical train cars, coupled together, are rolling east at 3.97 m/s. A fourth car traveling east at 4.59 m/s catches up with the three and couples to make a four-car train. A moment later, the train cars hit a fifth car that was at rest on the tracks, and it couples...

Question: A freight train has a speed of 29.8 m/s at a given instant and 9.2 seconds later its speed is 26.2 m/s. train's acceleration is -3.91×10-1 m/s^2 What additional time would be necessary to bring the train to a complete stop, if it continues to slow at the rate given? What...

I was wondering if someone could help me figure out what formulas to use solving this problem. My professor gave me the answer (as a way to check our answers) : 1.48 m/s^2 inward and 29.9 degrees backward The problem is: A train slows down as it rounds a sharp horizontal turn slowing from...

A train is traveling at 30.0 m/s relative to the ground in still air. The frequency of the note emitted by the train whistle is 262 Hz. a. What frequency (fapproach) is heard by a passenger on a train moving at a speed of 18.0 m/s relative to the ground in a direction opposite to the first...

I have a question for homework, and this is a high school physics class. The question reads: Suppose that you are standing on a train accelerating at 2.0m/s^2. What minimum coefficient of static friction must exist between your feet and the floor if you are not to slide? I've drawn a free...

Why when you jump inside a moving train you land exactly in the same place, instead of landing closer to the tail of the train? I know it a stupid question but I am not able to find what physical law applies in this case. Has it something to do with momentum cancellation? (I remember the...

During acceleration, will the train's rear clock appear to tick faster than the train's front clock from stationary frame of reference ? I am asking because i don't see how else the train's rear clock would read farther into the future than the train front clock. Either the rear clock...

Hi i have a question about how time is distorted along the length of a train moving at near light speeds. Will the front carriage be farther foward in time than the rear carriage from stationary frame of reference? or the otherway round? Assume that the front and rear sections had clocks...

hello I'm having some trouble with the following problem: train B leaves point A at 8am to point B located 30 km straight a head. the train has constant acceleration a=0.05 m/sec^2 now train B leaves point B 5 minutes before train A gets there,what is the acceleration of train B in...

A train consists of 50 cars, each of which has a mass of 6.6*10^3 kg. The train has an acceleration of 6.0*10^-2 m/s2. Ignore friction and determine the tension in the coupling at the following places. A)between the 30th and 31st cars B)between the 49th and 50th cars I know f=ma that's...

A freight train has a mass of 4.5*10^7 kg. If the locomotive can exert a constant pull of 15*10^5 N, how long would it take to increase the speed of the train from rest to 85 km/h? I know u need to use F=ma but how do i find time

This is a "paradox-type" relativity problem that I cannot figure out. Hope it's OK to post this here. Sorry for English errors, it's not my native language. Here it goes: Railway. Platform (1 km) by side of it. Train (100m). Train approaches platform very high velocity, so that (in train's...

A train travels due south at 60 m/s. It reverses its direction and travels due north at 60 m/s. What is the change in velocity of the train? Whats the average acceleration if it took 2 sec. to reverse.

Say a locomotive at a constant 18 mi/h comes onto a track (from some other track) that has a passenger train att 100 mi/h on it. At the instant the train is 0.42 miles away from the locomotive, it starts to decelerate. What is the resulting constant acceleration that is needed to just avoid a...

A train is moving parallel and adjaceent to a highway with a constant speed of 33 m/s, initially a car is 37 m behind the train, traveling in the same direction as the train at 47 m/s and accelerating at 5 m/s^2. What is the speed of the car just as it passes the train? Answer in units of m/s...

A train is running smoothly along a curved track at the rate of 50 m/s. A passenger standing on a set of scales observes that his weight is 10% greater than when the train is at rest. The track is banked so that the force acting on the passenger is normal to the floor of the train. What is the...

The question is A Train pulls away froma station with a constant acceleration of .4m/s^2. A passenger arrives at the track 6.0s after the end of the train has passed the very same point. what is the slowest constant speed at which she can run and catch the train? I am rather confused on...

hi all, the qns is when a tennis ball collide with a train, can the ball stop the train for a split sec, since during collision, the ball have to change direction so velocity at some point in time is equal to zero. Being at V= 0 for that split sec, and since the ball is in contact with the...

Is it true that a somewhat fast (say 150 km/h) train with a flat-headed locomotive pushes so much air in front of it that a person on the track would not (at first) be hit but blown away?

Hi, If I were to throw a tennis ball at an oncoming train would the ball stop the train momentarily while the ball changes direction? Due to the conservation of energy! Regards Tom

Hello everyone, I have two questions about this problem: "A train slows down as it rounds a sharp horizontal turn, slowing from 90.0 km/h to 50.0 km/h in the 15. s(seconds) that it takes to round the bend. The radius of the curve is 150 m. Compute the acceleration at the moment the train...

hey, is it possible, that when you throw a piece of a newspaper true the window of a train, the paper enters back at the following window ? thx laurens

We have a physics exam tomorrow, and have been presented with a previous exam for practice. One of the assignments have puzzled us quite a bit. Here goes: Rain in a train wagon Consider a train wagon whose upper part is a lidless box. The train wagon moves without friction. There is water in...

Hi, can anyone please tell me any good book on the subject, even any research paper will do, we are actually doing summer project in which we are estimating the drag coefficient on the bluff body like train Coach, using commercial softwares like Fluent n Gambit.Please if anyone has the info...

A train travels at a high speed v wrt the earth. A runner on the train sprints toward the back of the train at velocity v wrt the train. Clocks on the train should run slow compared to Earth clocks. The runner's clock should run slow compared to the train clock. Therefore the runner's...

On page 3 of this new paper of Gerard 't Hooft it is written: This paper was written while these facts were being discovered, so that it represents an original train of thought, which may actually be useful for the reader.[/color] Here is a paper that contemplates a deterministic basis for...

:confused: Please help with this problem. A train moves from rest with const accel. a in a straight line. A man at distance b behind the train chases it with const. speed V. Show he can catch it if V^2 >2ab, and find when he does so. I have found formulas for distance traveled for each and...

Say you are riding in a windowless train that is either stationary or moving at a constant velocity with respect to earth. How can u determine whether you are moving or not? I cannot think of a way since u would feel anything unless the train accelerates right? Thanks to whoever reply :rolleyes:

Hello, Please help me to find out the answer for the following question...! When a train is running, wheels at both sides are rotating with a same speed . So when it runs through a curve, the inner rail is having a small curvature than the outer rail. So Outer wheel has to travel a long...

Hi everyone. I have a question that my friends and I have debated for several years. I think I'm right and everyone else is wrong... Let's say I was in a train. This train is moving forward at a constant speed, maybe 200 mph. The ceiling is very high and there are no windows, doors, or...

How do you calculate the mechanical advantage of a 3 gear train system. The formula I have for gears is only for 2 gears: MA = number of teeth in the driving gear/number of teeth in the other gear.

I am working on a project of maglev train and want to build its physical model(as simple as it works) just to give an idea that this project is in working condition and also some mathematical modeling that will help me in my research paper So please if anyone can help me in this project I will...

Mmmm if it's not too much of a problem could someone help me with the following question?: A late passenger sprinting at 8.0m/s is 30.0m away from the rear end of a train when it starts out of the station with an acceleration of 1.0m/s^2. Can the passenger catch the train if the platform is...

The very desciption of Space-Time being only Relative Concepts is not what Einstein proported. He thought about calling it the opposite - "invariance theory." It ought to be known that relatives owe their existence to absolutes. They coexist. You don't want disagreement mentors? Then...

A toy train track is mounted on a large wheel that is free to turn with negligible friction about a vertical axis as shown in the figure above. The mass of the wheel plus track is 3.59 kg and the radius is 1.79 m. Ignore the mass of the spokes and hub. A toy train of mass 0.203 kg is placed on...

I'm trying to calculate the top speed of a train and I think I'm almost there but I've hit a wall. I started off by using the equation found at the link below and solved it for V (velocity). D=.5*PV^2ACd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_equation That gives me V=SQRT((2D)/(PACd))...

q,1: the hero of a western movie listens for an oncoming train by putting his ear to the trck. why does this method give an early warning of the approach of a train? a: My thaught are that any object that vibrates causes sound waves (due to compression waves in air..which are sound waves). so...

A train that had a mass of 18200 kg was powered across a level track by a jet engine that produced a thrust of 521000N for a distance of 444m. Find the work done on the train. I thought this was pretty straightforward; however, it's apparently not. I used W=Fd, but I got the wrong...