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Chapter 36: Q. 33 (page 1060)
A particle has momentum . What is the particle’s speed in m/s?
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Teenagers Sam and Tom are playing chicken in their rockets. As FIGURE Q36.2 shows, an experimenter on earth sees that each is traveling at as he approaches the other. Sam fires a laser beam toward Tom.
a. What is the speed of the laser beam relative to Sam?
b. What is the speed of the laser beam relative to Tom?
You are standing at and your assistant is standing a Lightning bolt strikes atand a lightning bolt strikes at. You see the flash from bolt atand the flash from bolt According to your assistant, were the lightning strikes simultaneous? If not, which occurred first, and what was the time difference between the two?
A long train is heading for an long tunnel. If the train moves sufficiently fast, is it possible, according to experimenters on the ground, for the entire train to be inside the tunnel at one instant of time? Explain.
An electron moving to the right atcollides with a positron moving to the left at. The two particles annihilate and produce two gamma-ray photons. What is the wavelength of the photons?
A baseball pitcher can throw a ball with a speed of . He is in the back of a pickup truck that is driving away from you. He throws the ball in your direction, and it floats toward you at a lazy . What is the speed of the truck?
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