Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics
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Author: Douglas C. Giancoli
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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 - If a 20-passenger plane is not full, sometimes...Ch. 9 - Prob. 23QCh. 9 - Why is the CM of a 1-m length of pipe at its...Ch. 9 - Show on a diagram how your CM shifts when you move...Ch. 9 - Describe an analytic way of determining the CM of...Ch. 9 - Place yourself facing the edge of an open door....Ch. 9 - If only an external force can change the momentum...Ch. 9 - A rocket following a parabolic path through the...Ch. 9 - How can a rocket change direction when it is far...Ch. 9 - In observations of nuclear -decay, the electron...Ch. 9 - Bob and Jim decide to play tug-of-war on a...Ch. 9 - At a carnival game you try to knock over a heavy...Ch. 9 - (I) Calculate the force exerted on a rocket when...Ch. 9 - (I) A constant friction force of 25 N acts on a...Ch. 9 - (II) The momentum of a particle, in SI units, is...Ch. 9 - (II) The force on a panicle of mass m is given by...Ch. 9 - (II) A 145-g baseball, moving along the x axis...Ch. 9 - (II) A 0.145-kg baseball pitched horizontally at...Ch. 9 - (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. They...Ch. 9 - (II) The masses of the Earth and Moon are 5.98 ...Ch. 9 - (II) A mallet consists of a uniform cylindrical...Ch. 9 - (II) A 55-kg woman and a 72-kg man stand 10.0 m...Ch. 9 - (II) Suppose that in Example 918 (Fig. 932), mII =...Ch. 9 - (II) Two people, one of mass 85 kg and the other...Ch. 9 - (III) A 280-kg flatcar 25 m long is moving with a...Ch. 9 - (III) A huge balloon and its gondola, of mass M,...Ch. 9 - (II) A 3500-kg rocket is to be accelerated at 3.0...Ch. 9 - (II) Suppose the conveyor bell of Example 919 is...Ch. 9 - (II) The jet engine of an airplane takes in 120 kg...Ch. 9 - (II) A rocket traveling 1850 m/s away from the...Ch. 9 - (III) A sled filled with sand slides without...Ch. 9 - A novice pool player is faced with the corner...Ch. 9 - During a Chicago storm, winds can whip...Ch. 9 - A ball is dropped from a height of 1.50 m and...Ch. 9 - In order to convert a tough split in bowling, it...Ch. 9 - A gun fires a bullet vertically into a 1.40-kg...Ch. 9 - A hockey puck of mass 4 m has been rigged 10...Ch. 9 - For the completely inelastic collision of two...Ch. 9 - A 4800-kg open railroad car coasts along with a...Ch. 9 - Consider the railroad car of Problem 92, which is...Ch. 9 - Two blocks of mass mA and mB, resting on a...Ch. 9 - You have been hired as an expert witness in a...Ch. 9 - A meteor whose mass was about 2.0 108 kg struck...Ch. 9 - Two astronauts, one of mass 65 kg and the other 85...Ch. 9 - A 22-g bullet strikes and becomes embedded in a...Ch. 9 - Two balls, of masses mA = 45 g and mB = 65 g, are...Ch. 9 - A block of mass m = 2.20 kg slides down a 30.0...Ch. 9 - In Problem 100 (Fig. 953), what is the upper limit...Ch. 9 - After a completely inelastic collision between two...Ch. 9 - A 0.25-kg skeet (clay target) is fired at an angle...Ch. 9 - A massless spring with spring constant k is placed...Ch. 9 - The gravitational slingshot effect. 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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