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AP Physics C: Mechanics
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Work and Energy Homework
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Forces Homework
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2D Motion Homework
HW#1: Vector Math
HW#2: Chapter 4 Questions
HW#3: Projectile Motion Problem Set
HW#4: Projectile Motion FRQ
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Motion Graphs HW#1
Answer questions and justify your response.
Motion Graphs HW#2 and HW#3
Answer questions about interpreting motion graphs.
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1. Horses are to race over a certain English meadow for a distance of 4.0 furlongs. What is the race distance in (a) rods and (b) chains? (1 furlong = 201.168 m, 1 rod = 5.0292 m and 1 chain = 20.117 m.)
2. The micrometer (1 µm) is often called the micron. (a) How many microns make up 1.0 km? (b) What fraction of a centimeter is equal to 1.0 µm? (c) How many microns are in 1.0 yd?
3. Antarctica is roughly semicircular, with a radius of 2000 km. The average thickness of its ice cover is 3000 m. How much cubic centimeters of ice does Antarctica contain? (Ignore the curvature of Earth.)
4. A lecture period (50 min) is close to 1 microcentury. (a) How long is a microcentury in minutes? (b) Find the percentage difference from the approximation.
5. A fortnight is a charming English measure of time equal to 2.0 weeks (the word is contraction of “fourteen nights”). That is a nice amount of time in pleasant company but perhaps a painful string of microseconds in unpleasant company. How many microseconds are in a fortnight?
6. The fastest growing plant on record is a Hesperoyucca whipplei that grew in 3.7 m in 14 days. What was its growth rate in micrometers per second?
7. Earth has a mass of 5.98×10^24 kg. The average mass of the atoms that make up Earth is 40 u. How many atoms are there in Earth?
8. One cubic centimeter of a typical cumulus cloud contains 50 to 500 water drops, which have a typical radius of 10 µm. For that range, give the lower value and the higher value, respectively, for the following. (a) How many cubic meters of water are in a cylindrical cumulus cloud of height 3.0 km and radius 1.0 km? (b) How many 1-liter pop bottles would that water fill? (c) Water has a density of 1,000 kg/m3. How much mass does the water in the cloud have?
2. The micrometer (1 µm) is often called the micron. (a) How many microns make up 1.0 km? (b) What fraction of a centimeter is equal to 1.0 µm? (c) How many microns are in 1.0 yd?
3. Antarctica is roughly semicircular, with a radius of 2000 km. The average thickness of its ice cover is 3000 m. How much cubic centimeters of ice does Antarctica contain? (Ignore the curvature of Earth.)
4. A lecture period (50 min) is close to 1 microcentury. (a) How long is a microcentury in minutes? (b) Find the percentage difference from the approximation.
5. A fortnight is a charming English measure of time equal to 2.0 weeks (the word is contraction of “fourteen nights”). That is a nice amount of time in pleasant company but perhaps a painful string of microseconds in unpleasant company. How many microseconds are in a fortnight?
6. The fastest growing plant on record is a Hesperoyucca whipplei that grew in 3.7 m in 14 days. What was its growth rate in micrometers per second?
7. Earth has a mass of 5.98×10^24 kg. The average mass of the atoms that make up Earth is 40 u. How many atoms are there in Earth?
8. One cubic centimeter of a typical cumulus cloud contains 50 to 500 water drops, which have a typical radius of 10 µm. For that range, give the lower value and the higher value, respectively, for the following. (a) How many cubic meters of water are in a cylindrical cumulus cloud of height 3.0 km and radius 1.0 km? (b) How many 1-liter pop bottles would that water fill? (c) Water has a density of 1,000 kg/m3. How much mass does the water in the cloud have?