Chapter 6: Q11 P (page 276)
What is the speed of an electron whose total energy is equal to the total energy of a proton that is at rest? What is the kinetic energy of this electron?
Short Answer
The speed of electron is, And the kinetic energy is,
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Chapter 6: Q11 P (page 276)
What is the speed of an electron whose total energy is equal to the total energy of a proton that is at rest? What is the kinetic energy of this electron?
The speed of electron is, And the kinetic energy is,
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The radius of an airless planet is and its mass is . An object is launched straight up from just above the atmosphere of Mars (a) What initial speed is needed so that when the object is far from the planet its final speed is ? (b) What initial speed is needed so that when the object is far from the planet its final speed is ? (This is called the escape speed.)
You pull a block of mass macross a frictionless table with a constant force. You also pull with an equal constant force a block of larger mass M. The blocks are initially at rest. If you pull the blocks through the same distance, which block has the greater kinetic energy, and which block has the greater momentum? If instead you pull the blocks for the same amount of time, which block has the greater kinetic energy, and which block has the greater momentum?
You push a box out of a carpeted room and along a hallway with a waxed linoleum floor. While pushing the crate 2 mout of the room you exert a force of; while pushing italong the hallway you exert a force of. To slow it down you exert a force ofthrough a distance of, opposite to the motion. How much work do you do in all?
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Figure 6.76 shows the path of a comet orbiting a star.

(a) Rank-order the locations on the path in terms of the magnitude of the comet’s momentum at each location, starting with the location at which the magnitude of the momentum is the largest. (b) Rank-order the locations on the path in terms of the comet’s kinetic energy at each location, starting with the location at which the kinetic energy is the largest. (c) Rank-order the locations on the path in terms of the potential energy of the system at each location, largest first. (d) Rank-order the locations on the path in terms of the sum of the kinetic energy and the potential energy of the system at each location, largest first
A fan cart of mass 0.8 kginitially has a velocity of (0.9,0,0)m/s. Then the fan is turned on, and the air exerts a constant force of (-0.3,0,0)Non the cart for 1.5s. (a) What is the change in momentum of the fan cart over this 1.5 sinterval? (b) What is the change in kinetic energy of the fan cart over this 1.5 sinterval?
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