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I'm a little bit rusty with my differential equations, and can't seem to see how solving for 1/r d/dr (r dT/dr)=0 has the solution T(r)=C_1*ln⁡(r)+C_2

Homework Statement A wireless computer network transmits data across the space between nodes as a modulation of a 2.45GHz (microwave) carrier signal. The signal is able to pass through a brick wall that is 100mm thick. Measurements have determined that the dielectric function at microwave...

I have been contact by numerous people asking if a degree in Physics is useful on Wall Street. A lot of people have the miss-conception that you need a Finance degree. I know people with a communication degree and they are Senior and Executives on Wall Street. At the end of the day... 1. You...

Homework Statement How hard does the beam push inward on the wall? Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I know that the tension on the cable is 1.32*10^4 N From there I turned the weight and tension into x/y components and tried to add the x components, so that: 1.32*10^4cos(40) +...

Homework Statement Like the title says, I have a homework problem that asks for the maximum diameter of a hole that can be punched into a sheet of polystryrene 6 mm thick, knowing that the force exerted by the punch is 45 kN and that a 55 MPa average shearing stress is required to cause the...

...at greater then the speed of sound in cheese. The leading molecules of cheese cannot transmit the force of impact backward because the speed of force propagation is limited by the speed of sound in cheese so the molecules must move either sideways or into the steel. If the steel is strong...

Homework Statement A square pool with 100-m-long sides is created in a concrete parking lot. The walls are concrete 90 cm thick and have a density of 2.5 g/cm3. The coefficient of static friction between the walls and the parking lot is 0.49. What is the maximum possible depth of the pool...

Homework Statement Imagine that you are looking at yourself in a mirror mounted on a wall. From where you stand, you are able to see from the top of youre head down to the top of your shoulders. Suppose you were to back away from the mirror. Would the amount of your body that you see in the...

Homework Statement i) Find the average force exerted on a rubber ball mass m hitting a wall at speed v. The ball spends a time t in contact with the wall before bouncing off at speed v. ii) The change in KE of the ball from when it hits the wall to when it is instantaneously at rest iii)...

Homework Statement A uniform 7.7 m tall aluminum ladder is leaning against a friction-less vertical wall. The ladder has a weight of 291 N. The ladder slips when it makes a 59.0◦ angle with the horizontal floor. Determine the coefficient of static friction between the ladder and the floor...

a friend and I were trying to see if it would be more probable to put your hand through a solid wall, or for an electron to be 1m away from the nucleus (consider the electron is the only particle around). would this even be possible to calculate? what would we do? thanks!

I've been searching around the internet and there doesn't seem to be a straight answer for this. People just spit out an answer and don't back it up with any explanation. This is a complex situation in real life, so let's assume both cars are of the same mass and simplify the scenario by...

If you had a cannonball made that was 5 pounds in weight and it hit a brick wall at a speed of 1,000 miles per second at the point of impact, how many pounds of pressure per square inch would the cannonball exert on the brick wall?

This problem has been bugging me, seeing that my answer seems off. But who knows. Given the following measurements, find the required pushing force needed to keep a book from sliding down the wall. Homework Statement M= 2.88kg Coefficient of static friction= .322Homework Equations Seeing that...

Homework Statement What force is needed to move a 10 pound block up a vertical wall at a constant speed by pushing at an angle of 53 degrees with the vertical? Mu=0.3 At what minimum angle with the vertical would you be unable to push the block at all regardless of how large the force...

Homework Statement A racquet ball with mass m = 0.247 kg is moving toward the wall at v = 12.4 m/s and at an angle of θ = 32° with respect to the horizontal. The ball makes a perfectly elastic collision with the solid, frictionless wall and rebounds at the same angle with respect to the...

Homework Statement A uniform ladder AB, of weight W and length 2.5m rests against a smooth vertical wall OA with its foot on smooth horizontal ground OB. The ladder is in a vertical plane perpendicular to the wall. It is kept in position with OA=2m and OB=1.5m by a light rope OC joining O to...

Homework Statement The distance from the Cricketer to the wall is 70 metres across level ground. The ball reaches its maximum height of 30 metres as it passes directly above the wall Both the height and the distance to the wall are measured from the point at which the ball is hit by the...

Breit Frame of reference ("Brick Wall") I am having a lot of trouble understanding breit frame of reference.I was trying to solve griffiths problem 3.21 (1st ed.): Consider elastic scattering- A+B----->A+B If particle A carries energy E, and scatters at an angle theta in the CM, a) what is...

Homework Statement A knight fires a cannon ball from the top of the castle wall. the cannonball is fired at a speed of 55 m/s and an angle of 27 degrees above horizontal. A cannon ball is accidentally dropped and hits the moat below in 1.4s. how far from the wall does the cannon ball hit...

Hello, I am a college student getting my degree in technical theatre. I will be the Technical Director for our production of Altar Boyz. The designer has designed a wall of one inch box tube. the wall is 16' tall by 32'9" wide. It has an open framing and the lighting designer has decided...

Difficult Ladder Against Wall Torque Problem! Homework Statement An 85 kg person stands on a uniform 6.6 kg ladder that is 3.9 m long, as shown. The floor is rough; hence it exerts both a normal force, f1, and a frictional force, f2, on the ladder. The wall, on the other hand, is...

I'm a bit of a physics noob, but I am always curious about everything in the world. I concluded from Newton's third law that when you exert a force on a wall it exerts a force back on you. But I want to know from where does that force actually come? I mean ok you as a person might have a...

New-York is in second week of Occupy Wall Street protests. Around 5,000 Americans came to Wall Street on September 17. Occupation continues till now, although new-york times reports arrests of 80 people. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44656667/ns/us_news-life/#.Tn-17tSfTks...

Homework Statement prove that if 0<a<b, then a < \sqrt{ab} < (a+b)/2 < b Notice that the inequality \sqrt{ab} \leq (a+b)/2 holds for all a,b \geq 0. ------------------------------- the linear algebra problem is Let V be the set of pairs (x,Y) of real numbers and define a modified...

Homework Statement Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution Hi from Turkey...I really need to solve this 3 problem...I will enter exam whit same problems...I have some attempt but i really need to exatly result...Because our teacher doesn't give mark your solving way...So...

Homework Statement Consider a large plane wall of thickness L = 0.4m, thermal conductivity k = 1.8W/(m*K), and surface area A = 30m2. The left side of the wall is maintained at a constant temperature of T1 = 90 C while the right side looses heat by convection to the surrounding air at Ts = 25...

A uniform ladder of mass m = 30.0 kg and length l = 2.50 m leans against a frictionless vertical wall. The ladder forms an angle theta = 75.0 degrees with the rough floor. The coefficient of static friction μ between the floor and the ladder is equal to 0.288. Determine the force Fw exerted on...

What do you do when that happens? You're fully motivated to study what you have to, then it turns out that you just can't seem to grasp certain concepts. Either it's because you're tired. Or you simply can't *see* it right and you just don't get what's going on and it makes you miserable. What...

Germany marks 50 years since Berlin Wall (BBC) I was seven years old at the time, so the Berlin Wall was part of my image of Germany as I grew up. In 1972 while I was in college, I visited Germany and got to see the Wall for myself:

A uniform ladder leans safely against a vertical wall at an angle 45° to the horizontal ground. The wall is 100% slippery, while at the ground the coefficient of friction is µ . Prove that since the ladder is not falling, µ \geq 0.5 I've attempted to solve this, and think I have...

Homework Statement A plank of lengt 2l leans against a wall. It starts to slip downward without friction. Show that the top of the plank loses contact with the wall when it is at two-thirds of its initial height. Hint: Only a single variable is needed to describe the system. Note the motion...

we know the electron's energy in the the infinite potential walls whose distance is L. If the infinite potential wall moves suddenly, will the electron's energy be changed?

Will I hit an "intellectual wall" with math? Every so briefly, for one semester, I was a math major in college. I got lazy and wussed out and graduated with a liberal arts degree. 7 years later I'm feeling pretty dissatisfied with my career and long term job prospects. Seems like...

Hello I am currently thinking about uni options for next year. I am very geared towards physics, maths and philosophy. Through my many searches on the internet I stumbled upon the idea of getting a PhD and working on Wall Street. This idea grabbed my interest as one of my hobbies has been...

When I read some heat transfer book, I got a problem. There are some numerical calculation methods in dynamic heat conducting in tube wall, but all the methods assume the temperature on one side of the tube and then calculate the temperature distributed in the wall. But are there some methods...

Homework Statement Calculate the change in momentum of a 120g pool ball hitting at 9m/s and rebounding at 6m/s. It rebounds at an equal and opposite angle of 45 degrees. Pi = 9m/s Pf = 6m/s angle = 45 degrees Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I have done all my...

Homework Statement A wave with the amplitude 4 cm travels along a rope that is fixed to a wall. The wave reflects from the wall. What is the amplitude of the reflected wave? Homework Equations I know it's something with light, could you explian in more detail? The Attempt at a Solution

1. Two steel balls A and B are placed inside a right circular cylinder, of diameter 54 cm making contacts at points P, Q and R as shown in the figure. The radius rA = 12 cm and rB = 18 cm. The masses are mA = 15 kg and mB = 60 kg. The forces exerted by the floor at the point Q and the wall at R...

I have a power supply with an input of 115/230 VAC. There is no wall plug wired to it, just cut wires. I don't have much experience with this. If I wire this to a cord can I plug it into the wall (120 volts)?

Homework Statement This isn't really a homework problem, it's a passage in the lecture notes that I don't quite get wholly. So here's the passage: "To compute the hydrostatic force on a semicircular wall of radius a which forms the end of a swimming pool filled with water, between D(y) = 0 and...

Hi all I have a revision question I am having some trouble with A cold room has a wall measuring 5.2m by 2.5m. The wall is constructed of 120mm thick brick on the inside, a cork layer 80mm and a 30mm layer ow wood in the outside. the inside temperature is -4ºC and the outside temperature...

Hello, I am working on a project this summer and I have run into a problem that I need a bit of help with. If I heat a fluid (water or some refrigerant) in a pipe with cross sectional area A and the fluid has a velocity V through the pipe then how long does the pipe need to be for a given heat...

How would I go about calculating the hydrostatic force on the walls of an upright Cylindrical Tank. To keep it simple, it is completely full of water, is 1m tall, has a diameter of 1m. Many thanks for anyone that can help.

Homework Statement A ladder of length L is leaning against a frictionless wall. The floor is frictionless too. It starts to fall. At what angle will it leave the wall. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I can derive the equation of motion...

Refer to the attached picture, condition : assume steady state legend : red : insulated (adiabatic) black : no condition Green : Temperature distribution, T(X) I started with figure A, from heat equation, A u will get the distribution with is just a constant...

Homework Statement A pendulum hangs from an inclined wall. Suppose that this pendulum is released at an initial angle of 10 degrees and it bounces off the wall elastically when it reaches an angle of -5 degrees. What is the period of this pendulum? Homework Equations T=2π√(l/g) The...

We have a water pipe which is 750mm diameter assumed running full with a flow rate of 152l/s. When the water exits the pipe there is a steel wall approx 1.2m in front of it and I need to determine the force that the water exerts on the wall? I have claulcated that the water is running at...

If you were to push a wall and it were to not accelerate, would this mean you did not apply force to the wall according to the equation F=ma?

Do wooden wall or window glass give good protection from penetrating radiation such as gamma rays?