Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics
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Author: Douglas C. Giancoli
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Chapter 9, Problem 27Q
Place yourself facing the edge of an open door. Position your feet astride the door with your nose and abdomen touching the door’s edge. Try to rise on your tiptoes. Why can’t this be done?
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics
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(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 - 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