1 Measurement 2 Motion Along A Straight Line 3 Vectors 4 Motion In Two And Three Dimensions 5 Force And Motion—i 6 Force And Motion—ii 7 Kinetic Energy And Work 8 Potential Energy And Conservation Of Energy 9 Center Of Mass And Linear Momentum 10 Rotational 11 Rolling, Torque, And Angular Momentum 12 Equilibrium And Elasticity 13 Gravitation 14 Fluids 15 Oscillations 16 Waves—i 17 Waves—ii 18 Temperature, Heat, And The First Law Of Thermodynamics 19 The Kinetic Theory Of Gases 20 Entropy And The Second Law Of Thermodynamics 21 coulomb’s Law 22 Electric Fields 23 Gauss’ Law 24 Electric Potential 25 Capacitance 26 Current And Resistance 27 Circuits 28 Magnetic Fields 29 Magnetic Fields Due To Currents 30 Induction And Inductance 31 Electromagnetic Oscillations And Alternating Current 32 Maxwell’s Equations; Magnetism Of Matter 33 Electromagnetic Waves 34 Images 35 Interference 36 Diffraction 37 Relativity 38 Photons And Matter Waves 39 More About Matter Waves 40 All About Atoms 41 Conduction Of Electricity In Solids 42 Nuclear Physics 43 Energy From The Nucleus 44 Quarks, Leptons, And The Big Bang expand_more
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Problem 1Q Problem 2Q Problem 3Q Problem 4Q Problem 5Q Problem 6Q: Sam leaves Venus in a spaceship headed to Mars and passes Sally, who is on Earth, with a relative... Problem 7Q Problem 8Q: The rest energy and total energy, respectively, of three particles, expressed in terms of a basic... Problem 9Q Problem 10Q: While on board a starship, you intercept signals from four shuttle craft that are moving either... Problem 11Q Problem 1P: The mean lifetime of stationary muons is measured to be 2.2000 s. The mean lifetime of high-speed... Problem 2P: To eight significant figures, what is speed parameter if the Lorentz factor is a 1.010 000 0, b... Problem 3P: You wish to make a round trip from Earth in a spaceship, traveling at constant speed in a straight... Problem 4P: Come back to the future. Suppose that a father is 20.00 y older than his daughter. He wants to... Problem 5P: ILW An unstable high-energy particle enters a detector and leaves a track of length 1.05 mm before... Problem 6P Problem 7P: The premise of the Planet of the Apes movies and book is that hibernating astronauts travel far into... Problem 8P: An electron of = 0.999 987 moves along the axis of an evacuated tube that has a length of 3.00 m as... Problem 9P: SSM A spaceship of rest length 130 m races past a timing station at a speed of 0.740c. a What is the... Problem 10P: A meter stick in frame S' makes an angle of 30 with the x' axis. If that frame moves parallel to the... Problem 11P: A rod lies parallel to the x axis of reference frame S, moving along this axis at a speed of 0.630c.... Problem 12P: The length of a spaceship is measured to be exactly half its rest length, a To three significant... Problem 13P: GO A space traveler takes off from Earth and moves at speed 0.9900c toward the star Vega, which is... Problem 14P Problem 15P: GO The center of our Milky Way galaxy is about 23 000 ly away. a To eight significant figures, at... Problem 16P: Observer S reports that an event occurred on the x axis of his reference frame at x = 3.00 108 m at... Problem 17P: SSM WWW In Fig. 37-9, the origins of the two frames coincide at t = t' = 0 and the relative speed is... Problem 18P Problem 19P: An experimenter arranges to trigger two flashbulbs simultaneously, producing a big flash located at... Problem 20P Problem 21P Problem 22P Problem 23P: ILW A clock moves along an x axis at a speed of 0.600c and reads zero as it passes the origin of the... Problem 24P Problem 25P: In Fig. 37-9, observer S detects two flashes of light. A big flash occurs at x1 = 1200 m and, 5.00 s... Problem 26P: In Fig. 37-9, observer 5 detects two flashes of light. A big flash occurs at x1 = 1200 m and,... Problem 27P: SSM A particle moves along the x' axis of frame S' with velocity 0.40c. Frame S' moves with velocity... Problem 28P Problem 29P: Galaxy A is reported to be receding from us with a speed of 0.35c. Galaxy B, located in precisely... Problem 30P: Stellar system Q1 moves away from us at a speed of 0.800c. Stellar system Q2, which lies in the same... Problem 31P: SSM WWW ILW A spaceship whose rest length is 350 m has a speed of 0.82c with respect to a certain... Problem 32P Problem 33P: GO An armada of spaceships that is 1.00 ly long as measured in its rest frame moves with speed... Problem 34P: A sodium light source moves in a horizontal circle at a constant speed of 0.100c while emitting... Problem 35P: SSM A spaceship, moving away from Earth at a speed of 0.900c, reports back by transmitting at a... Problem 36P Problem 37P Problem 38P Problem 39P: SSM A spaceship is moving away from Earth at speed 0.20c. A source on the rear of the ship emits... Problem 40P: How much work must be done to increase the speed of an electron from rest to a 0.500c, b 0.990c, and... Problem 41P: SSM WWW The mass of an electron is 9.109 381 88 1031 kg. To six significant figures, find a and b ... Problem 42P Problem 43P: How much work must be done to increase the speed of an electron a from 0.18c to 0.19c and b from... Problem 44P: In the reaction p 19F 16O, the masses are mp = 1.007825 u,m = 4.002603 u, mF = 18.998405 u,mO =... Problem 45P: In a high-energy collision between a cosmic-ray particle and a particle near the top of Earths... Problem 46P Problem 47P Problem 48P: GO The mass of a muon is 207 times the electron mass; the average lifetime of muons at rest is 2.20... Problem 49P: GO As you read this page on paper or monitor screen, a cosmic ray proton passes along the leftright... Problem 50P: To four significant figures, find the following when the kinetic energy is 10.00 MeV: a and b for... Problem 51P: ILW What must be the momentum of a particle with mass m so that the total energy of the particle is... Problem 52P: Apply the binomial theorem Appendix E to the last part of Eq. 37-52 for the kinetic energy of a... Problem 53P Problem 54P: GO What is for a particle with a K = 2.00E0 and b E = 2.00 E0? Problem 55P Problem 56P: a The energy released in the explosion of 1.00 mol of TNT is 3.40 MJ. The molar mass of TNT is 0.227... Problem 57P: Quasars are thought to be the nuclei of active galaxies in the early stages of their formation. A... Problem 58P: The mass of an electron is 9.109 381 88 1031 kg. To eight significant figures, find the following... Problem 59P: GO An alpha particle with kinetic energy 7.70 MeV collides with an 14N nucleus at rest, and the two... Problem 60P: Temporal separation between two events. Events A and B occur with the following spacetime... Problem 61P: Spatial separation between two events. For the passing reference frames of Fig. 37-25, events A and... Problem 62P Problem 63P Problem 64P Problem 65P Problem 66P Problem 67P Problem 68P Problem 69P Problem 70P: An airplane has rest length 40.0 m and speed 630 m/s. To a ground observer, a by what fraction is... Problem 71P: SSM To circle Earth in low orbit, a satellite must have a speed of about 2.7 104 km/h. Suppose that... Problem 72P Problem 73P: SSM How much work is needed to accelerate a proton from a speed of 0.9850c to a speed of 0.9860c? Problem 74P: A pion is created in the higher reaches of Earths atmosphere when an incoming high-energy cosmic-ray... Problem 75P: SSM If we intercept an electron having total energy 1533 MeV that came from Vega, which is 26 ly... Problem 76P Problem 77P: A spaceship at rest in a certain reference frame S is given a speed increment of 0.50c. Relative to... Problem 78P Problem 79P: SSM What is the momentum in MeV/c of an electron with a kinetic energy of 2.00 MeV? Problem 80P: The radius of Earth is 6370 km, and its orbital speed about the Sun is 30 km/s. Suppose Earth moves... Problem 81P: A particle with mass m has speed c/2 relative to inertial frame S. The particle collides with an... Problem 82P: An elementary particle produced in a laboratory experiment travels 0.230 mm through the lab at a... Problem 83P: What are a K, b E, and c p in GeV/c for a proton moving at speed 0.990c? What are d K, e E, and f p... Problem 84P Problem 85P Problem 86P: How much energy is released in the explosion of a fission bomb containing 3.0 kg of fissionable... Problem 87P: What potential difference would accelerate an electron to speed c according to classical physics? b... Problem 88P: A Foron cruiser moving directly toward a Reptulian scout ship fires a decoy toward the scout ship.... Problem 89P Problem 90P: Space cruisers A and B are moving parallel to the positive direction of an x axis. Cruiser A is... Problem 91P: In Fig. 37-36, two cruisers fly toward a space station. Relative to the station, cruiser A has speed... Problem 92P: A relativistic train of proper length 200 m approaches a tunnel of the same proper length, at a... Problem 93P Problem 94P format_list_bulleted