Which of the following is a quantity that is always positive or 0?
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Kinetic energy
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a 2 kg block rests at the edge of a platform that is 10 meters above level ground. The block is launched horizontally from the edge of the platform with an initial speed of 3 meters per second. Air resistance is negligible. The time it will take for the block to reach the ground is most nearly....
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10. Object A is released from rest at height h. at the same instant, object B is thrown downward from the dame location. Which of the following graphs of speed v as a function of time t is correct for the two objects?
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l B / /A
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B. (parallel lines, one starting higher)
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48. a pendulum has a length and a bob of mass m. Which of the following is true of the linear momentum of the baby as it swings from its highest to lowest point?
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B. It increases in magnitude and changes in direction .
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26. The horizontal wire shown at the right in the figure above will break when the tension in it exceeds the value of T max. What is the maximum mass M that the hanging object can have without the horizontal wire breaking? (Assume the wire on the left does not break prior to the horizontal wire breaking)
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Max tan(angle)/gravity
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34. Two particles collide and stick together. If no external forces act on the 2 particles, which of the following is correct for the change in total momentum and the change in total kinetic energy of the two particles?
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C. momentum is the same. Kinetic is lower.
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18. Resonance occurs in a soft drink bottle as air is blown across the top. What property of the resonant sound wave in the bottle remains the same as the level of fluid in the bottle decreases?
I. The speed of the wave
II The wavelength of the wave
III The frequency of the wave
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A. only the speed is the same..
More water=shorter wavelength and hight frequency
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33. A toy car shown in the figure above enters the vertical circular loop with an initial velocity and moves completely around the loop without friction. If the car has no means of self propulsion, which of the following is true of the car's acceleration at the instant it is at point P?
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D. Downward and Toward the center of the circle
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40. A non rotating spherical planet with no atmosphere has mass M and radius R. A projectile of mass m is launched radially from the surface of the planet with an initial speed v=squarroot GM/2R. The potential energy of the projectile planet system, as a function of the planet's distance r from the center of the planet is U= -GMm/r. The greatest distance from the center of the planet that the projectile reaches is....
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D. 4/3 R
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1. A wind is blowing from north to south, as shown above, at speed of 8 m/s. a bicycle is traveling due east at a speed of 8 m/s. Considering both the wind and air resistance, in what direction will a small flag on the bicycle point?
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D. Southwest
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The radius of an astroid's orbit about the Sun is approximately 2 times the radius of Earth's orbit about the sun. The time, measured in Earth years, for the asteroid to make one complete revolution about the Sun is most nearly