Vertical Definition and 997 Threads

Background I joined a power company in the hydro division and I am currently working in the planning department. I have a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering & unfortunately most of the things I am facing everyday are related to civil engineering, lots & lots of construction terms &...

For the life of me I cannot figure out this problem: give an example of a function that has two horizontal asymptotes and three vertical asymptotes. Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

i have been stuck on this question for two days, can anyone help! A museum of modern art is displaying an irregular 358 N sculpture by hanging it from two thin vertical wires, A and B, that are 1.25 m apart . The center of gravity of this piece of art is located 48.0 cm from its extreme right...

Homework Statement A mass Z is suspended by a vertical rope attached to the roof, and a second rope attached horizontally to a wall. what is the tension in each rope if Z is hanging straight down? What are the rope tensions? Suppose Z has a mass of 800kg. what is the tension in the pair of...

I don't usually ask questions here, but I've been stuck for a v-e-r-y long time on this problem. It goes like this: A ball is dropped 1 meter above a tray connected to a spring. This is what it looks like: O |____| >< <> >< <>Mass of ball - 1kg Mass of tray - 5kg Spring - K = 100...

Homework Statement This is an MCAT practice problem that is driving me crazy! The answer is supposed to be 2200N on each foot. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance! A guy, whose mass is 80 kg, jumps off a bench that is 1 meter off the ground. Immediately after landing...

Homework Statement A certain volleyball player can jump to a vertical height of 85 cm while spiking the volleyball. Homework Equations (a) How long is the player in the air for? (b) What is the player's vertical take-off speed? The Attempt at a Solution Firstly I converted 85...

Homework Statement A rocket is launched to travel vertically upward with a constant velocity of say...20 m/s.After travelling maybe 35 s the rocket develops snag and its fuel supply is cut off. the rocket then travels like a free body, the height achieved by the rocket will be...

Homework Statement Suppose the water at the top of Niagara Falls has a horizontal speed of 1.42 m/s just before it cascades over the edge of the falls. At what vertical distance below the edge does the velocity vector of the water point downward at a 61.8 ° angle below the horizontal...

If you throw a ball straight up, say, and it reaches a height of 30 meters before falling straight down and back to your hand, how fast did you throw it up? I understand we can know this from the deceleration that gravity causes. Could you explain how to calculate these sort of things in...

Homework Statement "Two boys stand on the roof of an office block. One drops a ball from the roof, the other throws a ball up vertically with an initial velocity of 15 ms^-1. The balls strike the ground 1.88s apart. Calculate the heigh of the office block" Homework Equations x = x_0 + v_0 t +...

Homework Statement A 70.0 kg person steps through the window of a burning building and drops to a rescue net held 8.00 m below. If the surface of the net is 1.40 m above the ground, what must be the value of the spring constant for the net so that the person just touches the ground when the...

Homework Statement Using experimental values for mass and period of oscillations, I'm trying to graph period^{2} (y-axis) against mass (x-axis) to get a gradient = 4(pi^{2})/k so I can find k (spring constant). The problem is that when I use each pair of results in the equation below, I...

Homework Statement A 0.028 kg bullet is fired vertically at 185 m/s into a 0.15 kg baseball that is initially at rest. The bullet lodges in the baseball and, after the collision, the baseball/ bullet rise to a height of 37 m. (a) What was the speed of the baseball/bullet right after the...

Homework Statement Find the vertical line x = c such that it splits the area under curve f on the interval [a, b], into two equal parts. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I left the specifics out of the problem. I see two ways to figure this out. 1. Find...

hi, i am in great need of help... i need to determine the critical speed of a vertical shaft using ansys software ...my questions are: 1. which kind of element type should i choose? 2. wiil it be ok if i carry out the analysis without giving any constraints as it is not supported by...

for a physics project i am designing a vertical wind tunnel made out of stovepipe and powered by a leaf blower. this experiment is designed to find the terminal velocity of different shapes. We already have a way to vary the wind speed, but what we don't have is an accurate way to measure this...

ummm i don't know how to calculate the distance if: horizontal- v=2, u=2,a=0, s=? Vertical- v=?, u=0, a=9.8 s=1

Homework Statement Sketch the graph of (x-1)/(1-x^2). Homework Equations Vertical Asymptotes are found in the denominator. The Attempt at a Solution I have all I need to sketch this graph except the vertical asymptote. The 1-x^2 is throwing me off. I thought it would come...

Homework Statement https://wug-s.physics.uiuc.edu/cgi/courses/shell/common/showme.pl?cc/DuPage/phys2111/spring/homework/Ch-08-GPE-ME/mass_vertical_spring/7.gif A spring with spring constant k = 40 N/m and unstretched length of L0 is attached to the ceiling. A block of mass m = 1 kg is...

I have a question in my homework that I CANNNNOT figure out! it's 40n and feels like 47n when it swings. i just want to know the formula i would use to figure out the angle. thanks (:

A baseball is hit with a horizontal speed of 16 m/s and a vertical speed of 19 m/s upward. What are these speeds 1 s later? horizontal speed 16 m/s vertical speed ? m/s I figured out that the horizontal speed would still be the same and it was. So i thought that the vertical speed...

A 195 g block is dropped onto a relaxed vertical spring that has a spring constant of 1.6 N/cm. The block becomes attached to the spring and compresses the spring 14 cm before momentarily stopping. (a) While the spring is being compressed, what work is done on the block by the gravitational...

I'm currently writing a vehicle simulator and have constructed a chassis out of physical node bodies that are connected as in the screenshot below. I am trying to work out the normal force at each of the green circles such that if it were suspended by each of the four nodes, the summation of the...

Homework Statement a mass m is attached by a massless rod of length l to a pivot , which allows swing freely in a vertical plane under the influence of gravity .let the anglethita betweenthe rod the vertical . find the energy levels of the system? find the lowest -order correction to the...

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/1073/98488419.th.jpg I was unable to prove the equality shown in the question. Can someone please explain how to do so? Thank you.

Homework Statement Tom throws a ball of a cliff 45m nigh, with a velocity of 30 m/s. Take accleration due to gravity as 10m/s. (It took 4.5s to reach the bottom) What was its horizontal and verticle velocitys when it hit the ground? i used the first equation (v=u+at) and with substituion...

Homework Statement Write a function for d(x), the vertical distance between the two curves, and find the minimum value of d(x). Homework Equations The equation for parabola one is y = x^2 + 6, for parabola two, y = -(x-2)^2 + 6 The Attempt at a Solution The answer in the back...

f(x)=\frac{1}{1+ln|x|}\\ x\neq \frac{1}{e}\\ x\neq \frac{-1}{e}\\ lim_{x->\frac{1}{e}^+}\frac{1}{1+ln|x|}=\\ lim_{x->\frac{1}{e}^-}\frac{1}{1+ln|x|}=\\ i can't immagine ithe values in this function ??

the horisontal assimptote of this function.. x>0 f(x)=|x-1|+\frac{1}{x}\\ for m i get: m=lim |x-1| +1/x=infinity x->infinity so there is no horisontal assimptote here?

Homework Statement A rock is thrown at an angle of 17 degrees above the horizontal at 28.5 m/s, from the ground. a)How high will the rock rise above the ground? b)What is the horizontal speed of the rock at the top of its flight? c) How long will it take the rock to reach a vertical...

Homework Statement A uniform rope of mass m and length L hangs vertically from the ceiling. The distance along the rope, as measured from the bottom of the rope is y (i.e., the bottom of the rope is y = 0 and the top is y = L). Homework Equations v = sqrt(T/u) ? The Attempt at a Solution...

A person lifts a 3.7 kg cement block a vertical distance of 1.18 m and then carries the block horizontally a distance of 7.80 m. (a) How much work is done by the person in the process? J (b) How much work is done by gravity in the process? J w=fd?

If, only the initial velocity in x direction is given and the total distance "S" is given for a non horizontal projectile, how do we find the y (vertical) component of initial velocity? No angle given?

A ball is thrown downward from the top of a building that is 38.8 m tall. The ball passes the top of a window 13.0 m above the ground 2.00 s after being thrown. What is the speed of the ball as it passes the top of the window?

The curve defined by x3 +xy - y2 = 10 has a vertical tangent line when x = ? To find when the tangent line is vertical, could I find when the slope is undefined for the original function? The way I previously tried this problem was by taking the first derivative and then finding when x = 0...

I want to convert horizontal type of oscillations to vertical oscillations. is there any existing mechanism for it? if not, what should i do.

Homework Statement You've taken your neighbor's young child to the carnival to ride the rides. She wants to ride The Rocket. Eight rocket shaped cars hang by chains from the outside edge of a large steel disk. A vertical axle through the center of the ride turns the disk, causing the cars to...

Homework Statement A 2 kg block is dropped from a height of .45 m above an uncompressed spring. The springs k value is 200 N/m, and has negligible mass. The block strikes the end of the spring and sticks to it. a) determine the speed of the block at the instant it hits the end of the spring...

Homework Statement A crate with a weight of 50N rests on a horizontal surface. A person pulls horizontally on it with a force of 10N and it does not move. To start it moving a second person pulls vertically upwards on the crate. If the coefficient of static friction is 0.4, what is the...

Homework Statement A 0.4 kg object rotates in a vertical circle at the end of a 0.5 m string. What is the tension of the string at the bottom if the angular velocity there is 8.0 rad/s? Homework Equations centripetal acceleration = R*w^2 weight = mg R = radius of circle w = angular...

Homework Statement A 0,824kg mass attached to a vertical spring of a force constant 162N/m oscillates with a maximum speed of 0,372 m/s. Calculate the maximum acceleration of the mass. The Attempt at a Solution amax=vmax*\omega \omega=\sqrt{\frac{k}{m}} Is that correct?

Seen as i had difficulty understanding this little topic and with my AS level exam soon, i figured i should find somewhere to ask without having to wait while class, so here goes... I had some questions to do (but this isn't about homework!) i couldn't seem to be able to get the right answer...

Homework Statement An object of unknown mass M is hung from a vertical spring of unknown spring constant k, and the object is observed to be at rest when the spring has extended by 14cm. The object is then given a slight push and executes SHM. Determine the period of this oscillation...

Homework Statement A force of 17.0 N is applied to a 0.34 kg soccer ball for 0.090s, causing it to move off at 28 degrees above the horizontal. Determine the vertical velocity of the soccer ball at the end of the 0.090 second time interval. Homework Equations y= vyt + 1/2gt2 vyf= vy +...

does anybody know if the action of a real mas-spring system suspended vertically, support or refute the law of conversation of energy

Homework Statement 3.0-kg block slides on a frictionless 37° incline plane. A vertical force of 15 N is applied to the block. The acceleration of the block is? Homework Equations m*g*sin() The Attempt at a Solution 3*9.8*sin(37) - 15 = 2.7

Homework Statement A uniform rod of mass 1.6 kg is 6 m long. The rod is pivoted about a horizontal, frictionless pin at the end of a thin extension (of negligible mass) a distance of 6 m from the center of mass of the rod. Initially the rod makes an angle of 58 degrees with the horizontal...

Vertical circle--direction of a force? Vertical circle--direction of a force? An amusement park ride consists of a car moving in a vertical circle on the end of a rigid boom of negligible mass. The combined weight of the car and riders is 4.5 kN, and the circle's radius is 12 m. (a) At the...

Homework Statement Picture: http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/9393/physicszn8.jpg A ball on the end of a string is cleverly revolved at a uniform rate in a vertical circle of radius 60.0 cm, as shown in Fig. 5-33. Its speed is 4.00 m/s and its mass is 0.300 kg. (a) Calculate the...