PHYSICS FOR SCIEN & ENGNR W/MOD MAST
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Chapter 9, Problem 75P
(II) A 55-kg woman and a 72-kg man stand 10.0 m apart on frictionless ice. (a) How far from the woman is their CM? (b) If each holds one end holds a rope, and the man pulls on the rope so that he moves 2.5 m, how far from the woman will he be now? (c) How far will the man have moved when he collides with the woman?
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PHYSICS FOR SCIEN & ENGNR W/MOD MAST
Ch. 9.1 - Light carries momentum, so if a light beam strikes...Ch. 9.1 - Prob. 1BECh. 9.2 - A 50-kg child runs off a dock at 2.0 m/s...Ch. 9.2 - In Example 93, what result would you get if (a)...Ch. 9.2 - Return to the Chapter-Opening Questions, page 214,...Ch. 9.8 - Calculate the CM of the three people in Example...Ch. 9.8 - Prob. 1GECh. 9.9 - A woman stands up in a rowboat and walks from one...Ch. 9 - We claim that momentum is conserved. Yet most...Ch. 9 - Two blocks of mass m1, and m2 rest on a...
Ch. 9 - A light object and a heavy object have the same...Ch. 9 - When a person jumps from a tree to the ground,...Ch. 9 - Explain, on the basis of conservation of momentum,...Ch. 9 - Two children float motionlessly in a space...Ch. 9 - A truck going 15 km/h has a head-on collision with...Ch. 9 - If a falling ball were to make a perfectly elastic...Ch. 9 - Prob. 9QCh. 9 - It is said that in ancient times a rich man with a...Ch. 9 - The speed of a tennis ball on the return of a...Ch. 9 - Is it possible for an object to receive a larger...Ch. 9 - How could a force give zero impulse over a nonzero...Ch. 9 - In a collision between two cars, which would you...Ch. 9 - A superball is dropped from a height h onto a hard...Ch. 9 - Prob. 16QCh. 9 - At a hydroelectric power plant, water is directed...Ch. 9 - A squash hall hits a wall at a 45 angle as shown...Ch. 9 - Why can a batter hit a pitched baseball farther...Ch. 9 - Describe a collision in which all kinetic energy...Ch. 9 - Inelastic and elastic collisions are similar in...Ch. 9 - 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(II) A rocket of total mass 3180 kg is traveling...Ch. 9 - (III) Air in a 120-km/h wind strikes head-on the...Ch. 9 - (I) A 7700-kg boxcar traveling 18 m/s strikes a...Ch. 9 - (I) A 9150-kg railroad car travels alone on a...Ch. 9 - (I) An atomic nucleus at rest decays radioactively...Ch. 9 - (I) A 130-kg tackler moving at 2.5 m/s meets...Ch. 9 - (II) A child in a boat throws a 5.70-kg package...Ch. 9 - (II) An atomic nucleus initially moving at 420 m/s...Ch. 9 - (II) An object at rest is suddenly broken apart...Ch. 9 - (II) A 22-g bullet traveling 210 m/s penetrates a...Ch. 9 - (II) A rocket of mass m traveling with speed v0...Ch. 9 - (II) The decay of a neutron into a proton, an...Ch. 9 - A mass mA = 2.0 kg, moving with velocity...Ch. 9 - (II) A 925-kg two-stage rocket is traveling at a...Ch. 9 - (III) A 224-kg projectile, fired with a speed of...Ch. 9 - (I) A 0.145-kg baseball pitched at 35.0 m/s is hit...Ch. 9 - (II) A golf ball of mass 0.045 kg is hit off the...Ch. 9 - (II) A 12-kg hammer strikes a nail at a velocity...Ch. 9 - (II) A tennis ball of mass m = 0.060 kg and speed...Ch. 9 - (II) A 130-kg astronaut (including space suit)...Ch. 9 - (II) Rain is falling at the rate of 5.0 cm/h and...Ch. 9 - (II) Suppose the force acting on a tennis hall...Ch. 9 - (II) With what impulse does a 0.50-kg newspaper...Ch. 9 - (II) The force on a bullet is given by the formula...Ch. 9 - (II) (a) A molecule of mass m and speed v strikes...Ch. 9 - (III) (a) Calclale the impulse experienced when a...Ch. 9 - (III) A scale is adjusted so that when a large,...Ch. 9 - (II) A 0.060-kg tennis ball, moving with a speed...Ch. 9 - (II) A 0.450-kg hockey puck, moving east with a...Ch. 9 - (II) A 0.280-kg croquet ball makes an elastic...Ch. 9 - (II) A hall of mass 0.220 kg that is moving with a...Ch. 9 - (II) A ball of mass m makes a head-on elastic...Ch. 9 - (II) Determine the fraction of kinetic energy lost...Ch. 9 - (II) Show that, in general, for any head-on...Ch. 9 - (III) A 3.0 kg block slides along a frictionless...Ch. 9 - (I) In a ballistic pendulum experiment, projectile...Ch. 9 - (II) (a) Derive a formula for the fraction of...Ch. 9 - (II) A 28-g rifle bullet traveling 210 m/s buries...Ch. 9 - (II) An internal explosion breaks an object,...Ch. 9 - (II) A 920-kg spoils car collides into the rear...Ch. 9 - (II) You drop a 12-g ball from a height of 1.5 m...Ch. 9 - (II) Car A hits car B (initially at rest and of...Ch. 9 - (II) A measure of inelasticity in a head-on...Ch. 9 - (II) A pendulum consists of a mass M hanging at...Ch. 9 - (II) A build of mass m = 0.0010 kg embeds itself...Ch. 9 - (II) A 144-g baseball moving 28.0 m/s strikes a...Ch. 9 - (II) A 6.0-kg object moving in the +x direction at...Ch. 9 - (II) Billiard ball A of mass mA = 0.120 kg moving...Ch. 9 - (II) A radioactive nucleus at rest decays into a...Ch. 9 - (II) Two billiard balls of equal mass move at...Ch. 9 - (II) An atomic nucleus of mass m traveling with...Ch. 9 - (II) A neutron collides elastically with a helium...Ch. 9 - (III) A neon atom (m = 20.0 u) makes a perfectly...Ch. 9 - (III) For an elastic collision between a...Ch. 9 - (III) Prove that in the elastic collision of two...Ch. 9 - (I) The CM of an empty 1250-kg car is 2.50 m...Ch. 9 - (I) The distance between a carbon atom (m = 12 u)...Ch. 9 - (II) Three cubes, of side l0,2l0, and 3l0 are...Ch. 9 - (II) A square uniform raft, 18 m by 18 m, of mass...Ch. 9 - (II) A uniform circular plate of radius 2R has a...Ch. 9 - (II) A uniform thin wire is bent into a semicircle...Ch. 9 - (II) Find the center of mass of the ammonia...Ch. 9 - (III) Determine the CM of a machine part that is a...Ch. 9 - (III) Determine the CM of a uniform pyramid that...Ch. 9 - (III) Determine the CM of a thin, uniform,...Ch. 9 - (II) Mass MA = 35 kg and mass MB = 25 kg. 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Figure 955...Ch. 9 - Two bumper cars in an amusement park ride collide...Ch. 9 - In a physics lab, a cube slides down a...Ch. 9 - The space shuttle launches an 850-kg satellite by...Ch. 9 - You are the design engineer in charge of the...Ch. 9 - Astronomers estimate that a 2.0-km-wide asteroid...Ch. 9 - An astronaut of mass 210 kg including his suit and...Ch. 9 - An extrasolar planet can be detected by observing...Ch. 9 - Suppose two asteroids strike head on. Asteroid A...Ch. 9 - (III) A particle of mass mA traveling with speed...
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