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3 years ago

How can you tell whether light is polarized?

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never [62]3 years ago

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No you can not
atleast as far as i know

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A 1200 kg car accelerates from 13m/s to 17m/s. find the change in momentum of the car?

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Answer:

4800

Explanation:

The change in velocity of the car is 17-13=4m/s. Since the change in momentum is the mass multiplied by the change in velocity, the answer is 4*1200=4800. Hope this helps!

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3 years ago

A ball is kicked horizontally from a 60 meter tall cliff at 10 m/s. How far from

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Hi there!

We can begin by deriving the equation for how long the ball takes to reach the bottom of the cliff.

$\large\boxed{\Delta d = v_it+ \frac{1}{2}at^2}}$

There is NO initial vertical velocity, so:

$\large\boxed{\Delta d= \frac{1}{2}at^2}}$

Rearrange to solve for time:

$2\Delta d = at^2\\\\t = \sqrt{\frac{2\Delta d}{g}}$

Plug in the given height and acceleration due to gravity (g ≈ 9.8 m/s²)

$t = \sqrt{\frac{2(60)}{(9.8)}} = 3.5 s$

Now, use the following for finding the HORIZONTAL distance using its horizontal velocity:

$\large\boxed{d_x = vt}\\\\d_x = 10(3.5) = \karge\boxed{35 m}$

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2 years ago

A particle with a mass of 0.500 kg is attached to a horizontal spring with a force constant of 50.0 N/m. At the moment t = 0, th

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a) $x(t)=2.0 sin (10 t) [m]$

The equation which gives the position of a simple harmonic oscillator is:

$x(t)= A sin (\omega t)$

where

A is the amplitude

$\omega=\sqrt{\frac{k}{m}}$ is the angular frequency, with k being the spring constant and m the mass

t is the time

Let's start by calculating the angular frequency:

$\omega=\sqrt{\frac{k}{m}}=\sqrt{\frac{50.0 N/m}{0.500 kg}}=10 rad/s$

The amplitude, A, can be found from the maximum velocity of the spring:

$v_{max}=\omega A\\A=\frac{v_{max}}{\omega}=\frac{20.0 m/s}{10 rad/s}=2 m$

So, the equation of motion is

$x(t)= 2.0 sin (10 t) [m]$

b) t=0.10 s, t=0.52 s

The potential energy is given by:

$U(x)=\frac{1}{2}kx^2$

While the kinetic energy is given by:

$K=\frac{1}{2}mv^2$

The velocity as a function of time t is:

$v(t)=v_{max} cos(\omega t)$

The problem asks as the time t at which U=3K, so we have:

$\frac{1}{2}kx^2 = \frac{3}{2}mv^2\\kx^2 = 3mv^2\\k (A sin (\omega t))^2 = 3m (\omega A cos(\omega t))^2\\(tan(\omega t))^2=\frac{3m\omega^2}{k}$

However, $\frac{m}{k}=\frac{1}{\omega^2}$ , so we have

$(tan(\omega t))^2=\frac{3\omega^2}{\omega^2}=3\\tan(\omega t)=\pm \sqrt{3}\\$

with two solutions:

$\omega t= \frac{\pi}{3}\\t=\frac{\pi}{3\omega}=\frac{\pi}{3(10 rad/s)}=0.10 s$

$\omega t= \frac{5\pi}{3}\\t=\frac{5\pi}{3\omega}=\frac{5\pi}{3(10 rad/s)}=0.52 s$

c) 3 seconds.

When x=0, the equation of motion is:

$0=A sin (\omega t)$

so, t=0.

When x=1.00 m, the equation of motion is:

$1=A sin(\omega t)\\sin(\omega t)=\frac{1}{A}=\frac{1}{2}\\\omega t= 30\\t=\frac{30}{\omega}=\frac{30}{10 rad/s}=3 s$

So, the time needed is 3 seconds.

d) 0.097 m

The period of the oscillator in this problem is:

$T=\frac{2\pi}{\omega}=\frac{2\pi}{10 rad/s}=0.628 s$

The period of a pendulum is:

$T=2 \pi \sqrt{\frac{L}{g}}$

where L is the length of the pendulum. By using T=0.628 s, we find

$L=\frac{T^2g}{(2\pi)^2}=\frac{(0.628 s)^2(9.8 m/s^2)}{(2\pi)^2}=0.097 m$

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3 years ago

An ice skater starts with a velocity of 2.25 m/s in a 50.0 direction. after 8.33 m/s in a 120 direction. what is the y-component

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The y-component of the acceleration is $0.33 m/s^2$

Explanation:

The y-component of the acceleration is given by:

$a_y = \frac{v_y-u_y}{t}$

where

$v_y$ is the y-component of the final velocity

$u_y$ is the y-component of the initial velocity

t is the time elapsed

For the ice skater in this problem, we have:

$u_y = u sin \theta_1 = (2.25 m/s)(sin 50.0^{\circ})=1.72 m/s$

where

u = 2.25 m/s is the initial velocity

$\theta_1 = 50.0^{\circ}$ is the initial direction

$v_y = v sin \theta_2 = (4.65)(sin 120^{\circ})=4.03 m/s$ , where

v = 4.65 m/s is the final velocity

$\theta_2 = 120.0^{\circ}$ is the final direction

The time elapsed is

t = 8.33 s

Therefore, we can find the y-component of the acceleration:

$a_y=\frac{4.03-1.72}{8.33}=0.33 m/s^2$

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3 years ago

After flying for 15 min in a wind blowing 42 km/h at an angle of 19° south of east, an airplane pilot is over a town that is 48

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Answer:

The speed of the airplane relative to the air is 209.47km/hr

Explanation:

Whenever we are solving a physics problem, it's really useful to start by drawing a diagram of the problem (See picture attached). It will help us visualize the problem better.

Now, we know that the plane flew for an amount of time of 15 minutes. For our dimensions to be the same, we need to turn those 15min to hours, like this:

$15min*\frac{1hr}{60min}=0.25hr$

Once our time is rewritten as hours, we can now calculate the velocity towards north of the plane.

$V=\frac{distance}{time}$

the plane traveled a distance to the north of 48km so the velocity is:

$V=\frac{48km}{0.25hr}$

V=192km/hr j

Now, we can calculate the x and y-components of the velocity of the wind. The problem states that the wind is blowing at 42km/hr at an angle of 19° south of east, so the x and y-components of the velocity of the wind are:

$V_{x}=42km/hr*cos(-19^{o} )=39.71 i$

and

$V_{y}=42km/hr*sin(-19^{o} )=-13.67 j$

So the velocity of the wind can be expressed as a vector as:

$V_{wind}=(39.71i - 13.67j)km/hr$

Once we know this, we can find the velocity of the plane with respect of the wind on x and on y:

$V_{plane x}=V_{plane/wind x}+V_{wind x}$

$V_{plane/wind x}=V_{plane x}-V_{wind x}$

$V_{plane/wind x}=(0-39.71 i)km/hr$

$V_{plane/wind x}= -39.71 i km/hr$

and

$V_{plane y}=V_{plane/wind y}+V_{wind y}$

$V_{plane/wind y}=V_{plane y}-V_{wind y}$

$V_{plane/wind y}=192km/hr j - (- 13.67j)km/hr$

$V_{plane/wind x}= 205.67 j km/hr$

So the velocity of the plane with respect to the wind can be rewritten as:

$V_{plane/wind x}= (-39.71i + 205.67 j) km/hr$

Since the problem asks us to find the speed of the plane with respect to the wind, this means that we need to find the magnitude of the velocity, since the speed is a scalar defined to be the magnitude of the velocity.

so:

$speed=\sqrt{(-39.71)^{2}+(205.67)^{2} }$

speed= 209.47 km/hr

Therefore, the speed of the airplane relative to the air is 209.47km/hr

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