510 Answered Questions for the topic AP physics

Ap Physics

10/17/16

calculate average acceleration of airplane during arrest
An airplane lands on an aircraft carrier and is brought to the ships velocity of 10.3 m/s by an arresting cable in a distance of 114 meters. The mass of the air plane is 28,000 kg and it's velocity... more
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Ap Physics

09/25/16

Kinematics physics determine the time
An airplane is recovered aboard an aircraft carrier with a steel cable that brings airplane from 69 m/s to the ship speed of 15.0 m/s over displacement of 81 m determine the time, in seconds, that... more
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09/25/16

What is the car's acceleration while braking?
A car accelerates uniformly from rest at 12.5 m/s^2 for 10 seconds. It then brakes to a rest over a distance of 1000 meters.
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Ap Physics

09/25/16

Kinematics calculate acceleration
 An airplane is recovered aboard an aircraft carrier with a steel cable that brings airplane from 69 m/s to the ship speed of 15.0 m/s over displacement of 81 m calculate the acceleration required... more
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Ap Physics

09/09/16

Hard AP Physics Question (Meteorite hits car)
In 1992, a 14-kg meteorite struck a car in Peekskill, NY, leaving a 20-cm deep dent in the trunk.    (a) If the meteorite was moving at 500 m/s before striking the car, what was the magnitude of... more
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Ap Physics

09/09/16

Physics Hard question
Imagine that a sprinter accelerates from rest to a maximum speed of 10.8m/s in 1.8s. In what time interval will he finish the 100-m race if he keeps his speed constant at 10.8m/s for the last part... more
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Ap Physics Physics Physics C

08/27/16

Two Rubber Ball Collision Physics Questions
A rubber ball is shot straight up from the ground with speed v0. Simultaneously, a second rubber ball at height h directly above the first ball is dropped from rest.   1. At what height above the... more
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Ap Physics Physics

05/27/16

a linear spring is used in a physics lab. What's the slop of time verse mass?
A linear spring of spring constant K is used in a lab experiment. A block of mass m is attached to the spring and the resulting period T of the simple harmonic oscillations is measured. Blocks of... more
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Ap Physics

05/22/16

What happens to an unstable particle in an accelerator?
An unstable particle produced in an accelerator experiment travels at constant velocity, covering 1.00 m in 3.58 ns in the lab frame before changing ("decaying") into other particles.
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Ap Physics

05/07/16

A 6 kg box is held at rest by two ropes that form 30 degree angles with the vertical. What is the tension (T) in either rope?
Applying Newtons laws
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Ap Physics

05/07/16

A box of mass 44kg is pushed hard enough to set it in motion across a flat surface. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the box and the surface is .48.
The rest of the question is What minimum pushing force is needed to keep the box moving at a constant velocity?
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Ap Physics

05/07/16

A force of magnitude 30N stretches a spring .83m from equilibrium. What is the value of the spring constant.
Applying Newtons laws
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Ap Physics

05/07/16

A block of ice is sliding down a ramp of slope 40 degrees to the horizontal. What is the rate of acceleration of the block?
Applying Newtons laws
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Ap Physics

05/07/16

A spring scale is constructed so that each 0.10N increment is separated by 0.50 cm. What spring constant is necessary for the scale to be accurate?
 It is supposedly about applying Newtons Laws.
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04/26/16

URGENt ap physics help
You are given three 2 ohm resistors, some wire, a variable DC voltage supply, a voltmeter and ammeter. A. Draw a schematic diagram of a circuit that will produce an equivalent resistance of 3 ohms... more
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Ap Physics Physics Waves

04/11/16

problem about interference - waves
You have two vibrating objects in an infinitely large pool. The distance between them is 6.0 m. Their frequency of vibration is 2.0 Hz and the wave speed is 4.0 m/s. The vibrations are sinusoidal.... more
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Ap Physics

04/11/16

Ap physics algebra based intensity of 3d spherical waves
the sun radiates energy at a rate of about 4 *10^26 W. Estimate how much of the suns energy is about 150*10^6 km from the sun. What assumptions did you make?
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04/02/16

2 Conceptual Questions about Fluids/Physics
1) Blood flows through an artery that is partially blocked. As the blood moves from the wider region into the narrow region, the blood speed:a) Alternately increases then decreasesb) decreasesc)... more
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Ap Physics Physics

03/22/16

This theoretical lab question is meant to test our understanding of oscillation, feel confused with how there can be variables
We would like to test the relation T= 2π* sqrt (L/g) for a pendulum at small angle oscillation in our lab. How can we set it up? We have ropes and masses and stop watches. 1) What would you... more
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Ap Physics Physics

03/21/16

Pendulum- Looking for tutors to help on a regular basis with ap physics 1 algebra based
A pendulum is made of a rope of length l=3.0 meter and a mass of 200g. Find the frequency and period of this pendulum. If we pull the above pendulum to the left by A=10 cm and release it form rest.... more
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Ap Physics Physics

03/20/16

Ap physics 1 algebra based- struggling with this question
Set the system up horizontally on a table. Pulling the spring and mass out by 5 cm from the non-stretched position and release the mass from rest at t=0. Find angular velocity, frequency, period,... more
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Ap Physics

03/20/16

Ap Physics 1 algebra based Oscillation
You set up a simple harmonic motion by attaching a mass of 100 g to a spring. To find the spring constant, you hang the mass to the spring vertically and find the spring stretches 10 cm. Find k of... more
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Ap Physics Physics Ap Physics 1

03/11/16

Physics waves questions:
An incident pulse reaches the boundary with a different medium. At the boundary, there is some reflection and transmission. The transmitted pulse is observed to be traveling slower than the... more
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Ap Physics Physics

02/04/16

AP Physics lab practical (simple harmonic motion): "Kiss the egg"
The lab is called "kiss the egg". I am pretty sure it will come up if you google it in case it does not make sense how I explain it.I am given a random length of rubber band. The goal of the lab is... more
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Ap Physics Physics Momentum

01/16/16

A 500 kg car is moving at 40 m/s. What is the impulse needed to stop this car?
I found the momentum (20,000 ns)   the other things the question asks is: if this car takes 15 sec to stop, what is the average braking force? what is the time rate of change in momentum?
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