Chapter 10: Q.9 (page 256)
A pendulum is made by tying aball to a string. The pendulum is pulled to one side, then released. What is the ball鈥檚 speed at the lowest point of its trajectory?
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The final answer speed =
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Chapter 10: Q.9 (page 256)
A pendulum is made by tying aball to a string. The pendulum is pulled to one side, then released. What is the ball鈥檚 speed at the lowest point of its trajectory?
The final answer speed =
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Truck brakes can fail if they get too hot. In some mountainous areas, ramps of loose gravel are constructed to stop runaway trucks that have lost their brakes. The combination of a slight upward slope and a large coefficient of rolling resistance as the truck tires sink into the gravel brings the truck safely to a halt. Suppose a gravel ramp slopes upward at and the coefficient of rolling friction is . Use work and energy to find the length of a ramp that will stop a truck that enters the ramp at .
Protons and neutrons (together called nucleons) are held together in the nucleus of an atom by a force called the strong force. At very small separations, the strong force between two nucleons is larger than the repulsive electrical force between two protons鈥攈ence its name. But the strong force quickly weakens as the distance between the protons increases. A well-established model for the potential energy of two nucleons interacting via the strong force is
where x is the distance between the centers of the two nucleons, x0 is a constant having the value , and
Quantum effects are essential for a proper understanding of nucleons, but let us innocently consider two neutrons as if they were small, hard, electrically neutral spheres of mass and diameter . Suppose you hold two neutrons apart, measured between their centers, then release them. What is the speed of each neutron as they crash together? Keep in mind that both neutrons are moving.
A pendulum is formed from a small ball of mass m on a string of length L. AsFIGURE shows, a peg is height above the pendulum鈥檚 lowest point. From what minimum angle u must the pendulum be released in order for the ball to go over the top of the peg without the string going slack?

A 55 kg skateboarder wants to just make it to the upper edge of a 鈥渜uarter pipe,鈥 a track that is one-quarter of a circle with a radius of 3.0 m. What speed does he need at the bottom?
shows the potential energy of a particle as it moves along the x-axis. Suppose the particle鈥檚 mechanical energy is .
a. Where are the particle鈥檚 turning points?
b. What is the particle鈥檚 speed when it is at ?
c. What is the particle鈥檚 maximum speed? At what position or positions does this occur?
d. Suppose the particle鈥檚 energy is lowered to . Can the particle ever be at ? At?

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