## Hovercraft B/C

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All right! Given a graph of v vs t, how do you find the displacement traveled? What about the distance?

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UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:All right! Given a graph of v vs t, how do you find the displacement traveled? What about the distance?

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UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:All right! Given a graph of v vs t, how do you find the displacement traveled? What about the distance?

Yep!

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UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:All right! Given a graph of v vs t, how do you find the displacement traveled? What about the distance?

Yep!

Suppose you have a contracting star whose new radius is 1/x as big as the old radius.

a. How much faster does the star spin?
b. By what factor does its rotational kinetic energy change?
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Yep!

Suppose you have a contracting star whose new radius is 1/x as big as the old radius.

a. How much faster does the star spin?
b. By what factor does its rotational kinetic energy change?

a. x^2 faster
b. x^2
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It's been a while, so I guess I'll ask a question.

Consider a basketball player throwing a ball into the hoop. The ball is 625 g, and the basketball player throws it at 10 m/s at 65 degrees to the horizontal. Neglect air resistance.

1) Find the force that acts on the ball once it leaves the player's hand.

2) A regulation height hoop is 10 feet tall. Find the distance from the hoop he needs to be if he shoots the ball from just above his head and he is 1.8 m tall.

Edit: Wait hovercraft is being replaced next year

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UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:It's been a while, so I guess I'll ask a question.

Consider a basketball player throwing a ball into the hoop. The ball is 625 g, and the basketball player throws it at 10 m/s at 65 degrees to the horizontal. Neglect air resistance.

1) Find the force that acts on the ball once it leaves the player's hand.

2) A regulation height hoop is 10 feet tall. Find the distance from the hoop he needs to be if he shoots the ball from just above his head and he is 1.8 m tall.

Edit: Wait hovercraft is being replaced next year

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UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:It's been a while, so I guess I'll ask a question.

Consider a basketball player throwing a ball into the hoop. The ball is 625 g, and the basketball player throws it at 10 m/s at 65 degrees to the horizontal. Neglect air resistance.

1) Find the force that acts on the ball once it leaves the player's hand.

2) A regulation height hoop is 10 feet tall. Find the distance from the hoop he needs to be if he shoots the ball from just above his head and he is 1.8 m tall.

Edit: Wait hovercraft is being replaced next year