Simple Nature - Light and Matter

Problem 87. 86 The figure shows an arcade game called skee ball that is similar to bowling. The player rolls the ball down a hor ...

88 Problems 88-90 all investigate the following idea. Cosmolog- ical surveys at the largest observable distance scales have dete ...

Problem 91. 91 The rock climber in the figure has massmand is on a slopeθ above the horizontal. At a distancexdown the slope bel ...

Exercises Exercise 3A: Force and Motion Equipment: 2-meter pieces of butcher paper wood blocks with hooks string masses to put o ...

Exercise 3B: Vibrations Equipment: air track and carts of two different masses springs spring scales Place the cart on the air ...

Exercise 3C: Worksheet on Resonance Compare the oscillator’s energies at A, B, C, and D. Compare the Q values of the two oscill ...

Exercise D is on the following two pages. Exercises 247 ...

Exercise 3D: Vectors and Motion Each diagram on page 249 shows the motion of an object in anx−yplane. Each dot is one location o ...

Exercises 249 ...

250 Chapter 3 Conservation of Momentum ...

Chapter 4 Conservation of Angular Mo- mentum 4.1 Angular momentum in two dimensions 4.1.1 Angular momentum “Sure, and maybe the ...

b/An overhead view of a piece of putty being thrown at a door. Even though the putty is neither spinning nor traveling along a c ...

c/As seen by someone standing at the axis, the putty changes its angular position. We there- fore define it as having angular mo ...

e/Only the component of the velocity vector perpendicular to the line connecting the object to the axis should be counted into t ...

g/A view of the earth-moon system from above the north pole. All distances have been highly distorted for legibility. Earth’s sl ...

h/The area swept out by a planet in its orbit. tively” two-dimensional means that we can deal with objects that aren’t flat, as ...

i/Discussion question B. The distance traveled equals|v|∆t, so this simplifies to area = 1 2 rv⊥∆t. We have found the following ...

j/Two asteroids collide. k/Everyone has a strong tendency to think of the diver as rotating about his own center of mass. Howeve ...

to calculate the earth’s angular momentum, but it turns out that there is an intuitively appealing shortcut: we can simply add u ...

m/The plane’s four engines produce zero total torque but not zero total force. n/The simple physical situa- tion we use to deriv ...