BackIn an experiment, a shearwater (a seabird) was taken from its nest, flown km away, and released. The bird found its way back to its nest days after release. If we place the origin at the nest and extend the –axis to the release point, what was the bird's average velocity in m/s for the return flight?
Larry leaves home at 9:05 and runs at constant speed to the lamppost seen in FIGURE EX2.1. He reaches the lamppost at 9:07, immediately turns, and runs to the tree. Larry arrives at the tree at 9:10. What is Larry's average velocity for the entire run?
Larry leaves home at 9:05 and runs at constant speed to the lamppost seen in FIGURE EX2.1. He reaches the lamppost at 9:07, immediately turns, and runs to the tree. Larry arrives at the tree at 9:10. What is Larry's average velocity, in, during each of these two intervals?
A particle at t₁ = ― 2.0 s is at 𝓍₁ = 5.2 cm and at t₂ = 3.4 s is at 𝓍₂ = 8.5 cm. What is its average velocity over this time interval? Can you calculate its average speed from these data? Why or why not?
A bowling ball traveling with constant speed hits the pins at the end of a bowling lane 16.5 m long. The bowler hears the sound of the ball hitting the pins 2.75 s after the ball is released from his hands. What is the speed of the ball, assuming the speed of sound is 340 m/s?
A horse trots away from its trainer in a straight line, moving 38 m away in 7.4 s. It then turns abruptly and gallops halfway back in 1.8 s. Calculate its average speed
On an audio compact disc (CD), digital bits of information are encoded sequentially along a spiral path. Each bit occupies about 0.28 μm. A CD player's readout laser scans along the spiral's sequence of bits at a constant rate of about 1.2 m/s as the CD spins. Determine the number N of digital bits that a CD player reads every second.
Two ships need to arrive at a site in the middle of the ocean at the same time. They start out at the same time from positions equally distant from the arrival site. They travel at different velocities but both go in a straight line. The first ship travels at an average velocity of 20 km/h for the first 600 km, 40 km/h for the next 800 km, and 20 km/h for the final 600 km. The second ship can only sail at constant velocity. What is the magnitude of that velocity?
(II) Digital bits on a 12.0-cm diameter audio CD are encoded along an outward spiraling path that starts at radius R₁ = 2.5 cm and finishes at radius R₂ = 5.8 cm. The distance between the centers of neighboring spiral-windings is 1.6 μm ( = 1.6 x 10-6 m).
(a) Determine the total length of the spiraling path. [Hint: Imagine 'unwinding' the spiral into a straight path of width 1.6 μm, and note that the original spiral and the straight path both occupy the same area.]
The position of an object along a straight tunnel as a function of time is plotted in Fig. 2–40. What is its average velocity between t = 25.0 s and t = 30.0 s?
Starting from the front door of a ranch house, you walk m due east to a windmill, turn around, and then slowly walk m west to a bench, where you sit and watch the sunrise. It takes you s to walk from the house to the windmill and then s to walk from the windmill to the bench. For the entire trip from the front door to the bench, what are your (a) average velocity? (b) average speed?
Every year the Earth travels about 10⁹ km as it orbits the Sun. What is Earth's average speed in km/h?
An airplane travels 1900 km at a speed of 720 km/h, and then encounters a tailwind that boosts its speed to 990 km/h for the next 2700 km. What was the total time for the trip? What was the average speed of the plane for this trip? [Hint: Does Eq. 2–12d apply?]