PHYSICS FOR SCIEN & ENGNR W/MOD MAST
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ISBN: 9780134112039
Author: GIANCOLI
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2, Problem 89GP
Agent Bond is standing on a bridge, 13m above the road below, and his pursuers are gelling loo close for comfort. He spots a flatbed truck approaching at 25m/s, which he measures by knowing that the telephone poles the truck is passing are 25 m apart in this country. The bed of the truck is 1.5 m above the road, and Bond quickly calculates how many poles away the truck should be when he jumps down from the bridge onto the truck, making his getaway. How many poles is it?
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PHYSICS FOR SCIEN & ENGNR W/MOD MAST
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It...Ch. 2 - (I) If a car rolls gently (v0 = 0) off a vertical...Ch. 2 - (I) Estimate (a) how long it took King kong to...Ch. 2 - (II) A baseball is hit almost straight up into the...Ch. 2 - (II) A ball player catches a ball 3.2 s after...Ch. 2 - (II) A kangaroo jumps to a vertical height of 1.65...Ch. 2 - (II) The best rebounders in basketball have a...Ch. 2 - (II) A helicopter is ascending vertically with a...Ch. 2 - (II) For an object falling freely from rest, show...Ch. 2 - (II) A baseball is seen to pass upward by a window...Ch. 2 - (II) A rocket rises vertically, from rest, with an...Ch. 2 - (II) Roger sees water balloons fall past his...Ch. 2 - (II) A stone is thrown vertically upward with a...Ch. 2 - (II) A falling stone takes 0.33 s to travel past a...Ch. 2 - (II) Suppose you adjust your garden hose nozzle...Ch. 2 - (III) A toy rocket moving vertically upward passes...Ch. 2 - (III) A ball is dropped from the top of a...Ch. 2 - (III) A rock is dropped from a sea cliff and the...Ch. 2 - (III) A rock is thrown vertically upward with a...Ch. 2 - (II) Given v(t) = 25 + 18t, where v is in m/s and...Ch. 2 - (III) The acceleration of a particle is given by...Ch. 2 - (III) Air resistance acting on a falling body can...Ch. 2 - A fugitive tries to hop on a freight train...Ch. 2 - The acceleration due to gravity on the Moon is...Ch. 2 - A person jumps from a fourth-story window 15.0 m...Ch. 2 - A person who is properly restrained by an...Ch. 2 - Pelicans tuck their wings and free-fall straight...Ch. 2 - Suppose a car manufacturer tested its cars for...Ch. 2 - A stone is dropped from the roof of a high...Ch. 2 - A bicyclist in the Tour de France crests a...Ch. 2 - Consider the street pattern shown in Fig. 247....Ch. 2 - In putting, the force with which a golfer strikes...Ch. 2 - A robot used in a pharmacy picks up a medicine...Ch. 2 - A stone is thrown vertically upward with a speed...Ch. 2 - Figure 250 is a position versus time graph for the...Ch. 2 - In the design of a rapid transit system, it is...Ch. 2 - A person jumps off a diving board 4.0 m above the...Ch. 2 - Bill can throw a ball vertically at a speed 1.5...Ch. 2 - Sketch the v vs. t graph for the object whose...Ch. 2 - A person driving her car at 45 km/h approaches an...Ch. 2 - A car is behind a truck going 25 m/s on the...Ch. 2 - Agent Bond is standing on a bridge, 13m above the...Ch. 2 - A police car at rest, passed by a speeder...Ch. 2 - A fast-food restaurant uses a conveyor belt to...Ch. 2 - Two students are asked to find the height of a...Ch. 2 - Figure 252 shows the position vs. time graph for...Ch. 2 - You are traveling at a constant speed vM, and...Ch. 2 - (III) A lifeguard standing at the side of a...
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