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### A space vehicle travelling at a velocity of 1296 (km/h) separates by a controlled explosion into two sections of mass 7276 (kg) and 236 (kg) [closed]

A space vehicle traveling at a velocity of 1296 (km/h) separated by a controlled explosion into two sections of mass 7276 (kg) and 236 (kg). the two parts continue in the same direction with the ...
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### What's the physical difference between the quantities $\langle v_{i}v_{j}\rangle$ and $\langle v_{i}\rangle\langle v_{j}\rangle$?

What's the physical difference between the quantities $\left\langle v_{i}v_{j}\right\rangle$ and $\left\langle v_{i}\right\rangle \left\langle v_{j}\right\rangle$? Where \$\left\langle ...
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### man walking in rain:relative velocity

A man walking in rain at a speed of 3kmph find rain to be falling vertically. When he increases his speed to 6 kmph, he finds rain meeting him at an angle of 45 deg to the vertical. What is the speed ...
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### Determining the acceleration of one to another with three unknowns [closed]

Given the following image, how would you determine the acceleration of block A, and the acceleration of block B relative to A? I'm trying to include the pulley as part of block A but I cannot figure ...
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### Acceleration, velocity and speed

It is given that acceleration is constant, so can we infer that average speed and velocity are the same?? Moreover, circular motion is out of the question, as the function of x(t) where ...
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### Need help with the position of a particle in a velocity-versus-time graph

I am having trouble with a velocity-versus-time graph. I recently took a Physics test that asked this question: The graph shows the velocity versus time for a particle moving along the $x$ axis. The ...
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### Kinematics with non constant acceleration

A particle experiences an acceleration described by $$a=kx^{-2}$$ where x is the displacement from the origin and k is an arbitrary constant. To what value does the velocity v of the particle ...
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### What's the acceleration of pendulum when velocity is zero

For a pendulum which has a light string to hang a bob, I know that when the bob swing to the leftmost or rightmost end, the velocity of the bob is zero and the acceleration should be maximized. But if ...
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### An unmarked police car passed by a speeding car [closed]

Hi I'm trying to solve the problem An unmarked police car traveling at a constant speed of 95 km/h is passed by a speeder traveling at 140 km/h. Precisely, 1.00 s after the speeder passes, the ...
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### Where are we : On level ground or on a ramp - moving in a train?

Let's say we are traveling in a train. The path has two parts: one at ground-level and the other moving up on the ramp. The ramp has an inclination of $\arctan\frac{a}{g}$ with the horizontal, where ...
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### Conservation of Momentum from Recoil Speed

A gun has a recoil speed of 2 m/s when firing. If the gun has a mass of 2kg and the bullet has a mass of 10g (0.01 kg) what speed does the bullet come out at? The gun has zero total momentum before ...
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### How can I add an acceleration vector to a velocity with a different direction?

I am in my last year of high school and am struggling with some homework. I'm sorry if this question is incredibly stupid, but I simply can't find the answer in my notes. If I have an object with a ...
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### A 0.1kg ball of dough is thrown up with a velocity of 15m/s. What is the momentum halfway up? [closed]

I know that $p=mv$ and (0.1kg)(15m/s)=1.5 kg m/s and the momentum at the vertex is 0, but what is the momentum halfway up?
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### Physics about plane take off simple find the acceleration problem [closed]

This was on my test, but I kinda botched it I think. I was trying to use V^2f = Vo^2 + 2a(delta x) A plane must reach 226km/h to take off. Runway is 2000m. What's minimum acceleration needed? ...
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### Projectile motion problem with upward acceleration and horizontal velocity [closed]

An electron in a cathode-ray tube is traveling horizontally at 2.10×10^9 cm/s when deflection plates give it an upward acceleration of 5.30×10^17 cm/s^2 . B.) What is its vertical displacement during ...
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### Bernoulli's Principle [closed]

A clear plastic tube with a diameter of 12cm and 110cm high is filled to the top with mercury. (density = 13.6 kg/m^3). There are three holes, all with a radius of 2 millimeters located 15cm from the ...
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### Vertical velocity to reach a certain point given a flat horizontal velocity? [closed]

Suppose I have two points such as $a(4,6,9)$ and $b(32,5,12)$. If I have a flat velocity pointing $a$ to $b (b - a)$ which has an arbitrarily defined magnitude. Given gravity $g$,how can I calculate ...
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### What is the pressure in a vertical pipe that has moving fluid through it?

I have a system like this When the valve is closed, pressure along any point along the thin tube may be found thru pgh. 1. What about when the valve is opened? 2. Does the top of the jar need to be ...
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### Relative Velocity and Momentum

The question is, "A $45.5~kg$ girl is standing on a $140~kg$ plank. Both originally at rest on a frozen lake that constitutes a friction-less, flat surface. The girl begins to walk along the plank at ...
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### How much runway does the space shuttle need to land?

A textbook question proposes the following scenario: NASA needs to plan emergency landing sites for the Space Shuttle (RIP). There are a number of things to consider. The shuttle touches down no ...
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### Negative sign of acceleration [closed]

This is the problem from our Physics textbook : A player throws a ball upwards with an initial speed of 29.4 m s–1. (a) Choose the x = 0 m and t = 0 s to be the location and time of the ball at ...
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### How do I find the initial velocity in this problem?

An X-ray tube gives electrons constant acceleration over a distance of $20\text{ cm}$. If their final speed is $2.0\times 10^7\text{ m/s}$, what are the electrons' acceleration? I know this ...
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### Calculating car's acceleration from change in angle of hanging object?

The question essentially is based on a situation like this- A car has a small object hung from the cieling on a string (apparently at an angle of 0 degrees to the ceiling). The car is accelerating ...
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### Magnitude of average velocity [closed]

A particle is at the position with Cartesian components $(5.0 m, 4.0 m)$ and $5.0 s$ later it is at the position with components $(8.0 m, 0.0 m)$. What is the magnitude of its average velocity? I ...
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### Jumping on a landing pad [closed]

I'm trying to make a character jump on a landing pad who stays above him. Here is the formula I've used (everything is pretty much self-explainable, maybe except character_MaxForce that is the total ...
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### Calculating two particle position and velocity with each other?

I've calculated the displacements and average velocities of both particles. $A$ average velocity $= 1.1180m/s$ displacement is $11.1803m$. $B$ average velocity $= 0m/s$ displacement is $0m$. ...
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### Create general equation of racing cars with head start [closed]

Cars A and B are racing each other along the same straight road in the following manner: Car A has a head start and is a distance $d_A$ beyond the starting line at $t=0$. The starting line is at ...
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### Calculating velocities using Reference frames

Suppose an object A is traveling at a velocity of 100 m/s, and another object B is traveling at 105 m/s. With both the objects traveling through the same direction, taking A as a reference frame, the ...
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### Determining Orbital Velocity

Is there any way to determine the orbital velocity of a point around another stationary point, if I don't know the mass of either of the points but know the force that gravity exerts and the distance ...
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### Hit a moving target [closed]

There is an object moving from $(X_1,Y_1)$ to $(X_2,Y_2)$ with speed of $V$. there is a third object in in $(X_3,Y_3)$. now I want to hit the first object with the second one. and imagine that the ...
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### How do I determine a component of relative velocity?

At a particular instant, a stationary observer on the ground sees a package falling with speed v1 at an angle to the vertical. To a pilot flying horizontally at constant speed relative to the ...
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### Trains travelling at different speeds towards a station C

Here's the question: Consider two stations A and B located 100 kilometer apart. There is a station C, located between A and B. Now trains from station A and B start moving towards station C at ...
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### Does acceleration at an angle to velocity change the direction?

During an interval of time, a tennis ball is moved so that the angle between the velocity and the acceleration of the ball is kept at a constant 120º. Which statement is true about the tennis ball ...
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### Tricky Conservation of Momentum problem: find the ratio of the carts by mass percentage lost [closed]

A wagon is coasting at a speed $v_A$ along a straight and level road. When 42.5% of the wagon's mass is thrown off the wagon, parallel to the ground and in the forward direction, the wagon is brought ...
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### What will be the relative speed of the fly? [duplicate]

It has happened many times and i have ignored it everytime. Yesterday it happened again . I was travelling in a train and saw a fly (insect) flying near my seat. Train was running at a speed of ...
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### Sign of Velocity for a Falling Object

I'm working on a homework problem in Mathematica. We have to graph the height and the velocity of a function given an initial height and initial velocity. However, when I do the graph for the velocity ...
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### How to find maximum velocity

I stack a question about projectile question. The question was A projectile is being launched from ground level with no air resistance. You want to avoid having it enter a temperature inversion ...
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### How to find minimum velocity without time? [closed]

I have a physics problem that says A 76.0-kg boulder is rolling horizontally at the top of a vertical cliff that is 20m above the surface of a lake. The top of the vertical face of a dam is ...
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### How to compute drag coefficient given initial position, initial velocity and final resting position?

The equations I'm using are: x = x + (DT * vx) vx = vx * C My DT is always 0.01 and the coefficient C (related to a linear ...
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### Finding The Resultant Vector [closed]

A plane is flying southeast at 215 km/h. Suddenly there is a wind from the north at 75 km/h. What is the plane's new velocity with respect to the ground in standard position?
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### Calculating vector of plane resulting from tailwind

In some basic physics homework I have, it asks what the resulting vector would be for a plane traveling at x m/s in y direction that is affected by a tailwind going in z direction at w m/s. How would ...
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### Find radius of curvature, given a velocity vector and acceleration magnitude?

The particle P moves along a space curve. At one instant it has velocity $v = (4i-2j-k)$ $m/s$. The magnitude of the acceleration is 8 $m/s^2$. The angle between the acceleration and the velocity ...
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### Deccelerate and Accelerate to achieve timed journey

I have a vehicle traveling at initial speed $100\:\mathrm{m/s}$. Expected destination speed is also $100\:\mathrm{m/s}$. Maximum deceleration is $3$. Maximum acceleration is $10$. Distance to the ...
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