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BRIDGING PROBLEM
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Problems
. , .. , ... : Problems of increasing difculty. CP: Cumulative problems incorporating material from earlier chapters. CALC: Problems
requiring calculus. BIO: Biosciences problems.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Q7.1 A baseball is thrown straight up with initial speed v0. If air
resistance cannot be ignored, when the ball returns to its initial
height its speed is less than v0. Explain why, using energy concepts.
Q7.2 A projectile has the same initial kinetic energy no matter
what the angle of projection. Why doesnt it rise to the same maximum height in each case?
Q7.3 An object is released from rest at the top of a ramp. If the
ramp is frictionless, does the objects speed at the bottom of the
ramp depend on the shape of the ramp or just on its height?
Explain. What if the ramp is not frictionless?
Q7.4 An egg is released from rest from the roof of a building and
falls to the ground. Its fall is observed by a student on the roof of the
building, who uses coordinates with origin at the roof, and by a student on the ground, who uses coordinates with origin at the ground.
Do the two students assign the same or different values to the initial
gravitational potential energy, the nal gravitational potential energy,
the change in gravitational potential energy, and the kinetic energy of
the egg just before it strikes the ground? Explain.
Q7.5 A physics teacher had a bowling ball suspended from a very
long rope attached to the high ceiling of a large lecture hall. To
illustrate his faith in conservation of energy, he would back up to