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This document contains: 1) Useful physics formulas and conversions for kinematics including position, velocity, and acceleration. 2) Three practice problems about a coin in a well, a toy rocket, and a bullet collision with a block. The problems ask for calculations using the provided formulas. 3) The problems provide initial conditions and ask for derived quantities like final position, velocity, or speed after a time or interaction.

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Discussion 2

This document contains: 1) Useful physics formulas and conversions for kinematics including position, velocity, and acceleration. 2) Three practice problems about a coin in a well, a toy rocket, and a bullet collision with a block. The problems ask for calculations using the provided formulas. 3) The problems provide initial conditions and ask for derived quantities like final position, velocity, or speed after a time or interaction.

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Physics 1301W.

400 Fall, 2014


Discussion Session #2 Sept. 11
Some useful formulae/conversions:
x = x
i
+ v
x,i
t +
1
2
a
x
t
2
v
x
= v
x,i
+ a
x
t v
2
x
= v
2
x,i
+ 2a
x
(x x
i
)
p
i
= p
f
(For an isolated system, where p = mv for each individual object in the system.)
g = 9.8 m/s
2
1. You drop a quarter into a wishing well and hear the splash of the quarter 3.00 seconds
after it is dropped. How deep is the well? The speed of sound at standard conditions is
around 340 m/s.
2. A toy rocket produces upward thrust with a constant acceleration of 3.0g for 3.5 s.
(a) To what altitude does the rocket rise if red straight up?
(b) From the moment it is red, how long does the rocket remain in the air assuming it does
not deploy a parachute? (Neglect air resistance.)
3. A bullet with a mass of m
b
is red horizontally into a stationary wooden block of mass
m
w
, which is lying on a frictionless table, at a speed of v
b,i
and becomes embedded within
the block.
(a) Determine the nal speed of the wooden block in terms of the given quantities. Check
the limiting cases for this collision (i) when the mass of the wooden block is much larger
than the mass of the bullet, i.e., m
w
m
b
, and (ii) when the blocks mass is much smaller
than that of the bullet, i.e., m
w
m
b
?
(b) Is it possible for the speed of the block after the collision to be larger than the initial
speed of the bullet, v
b,i
?
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