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This is a video podcast of solutions to example problems from Dr. Beyersdorf's Physics 50 class at San Jose State University. Several episodes will be published each week including solutions to the previous week's homework and examples that may be useful in understanding current homework or preparing for upcoming exams.
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For a tube containing mercury and water, find the difference in height of the mercury and water using Pascal's law
Given some measurements of the pressure in a fluid taken on the surface of an unknown planet, use Pascal's law and the universal law of gravitation to find the mass of the planet.
Use Bernoulli's Equation to find the force on an airplane wing and then find the net force acting on the airplane.
Use the continuity equation to find the exit velocity for water in a shower head
For a block of wood floating on top of a layer of water and below a layer of oil, find its mass and density given how high it is floating
Determine the gauge pressure at a given distance below the surface of a fluid using Pascal's law
Find the density of a piece of metal given its mass and volume. Is the metal gold?
For a piece of cheese oscillating on the end of a spring, find out how far the spring will be stretched when the oscillations stop.
Find the gravitational force acting on the moon from the Earth and Sun for moon at three different points in the lunar orbit
Find the tension in ropes holding up a beam in equilibrium.
Find the acceleration of a block on a plane that is attached to a rotating cylinder which has non-negligible moment of inertia
Determine the direction that a gyroscope precesses
Determine the lifting capacity of a motor with a given power and rotation rate
Find the acceleration of a falling yo-yo and the tension in the string as it falls
Find the frictional torque necessary to slow a spinning object a given amount in a given time
Find the torque exerted on an object by each of three different forces
Find the torque that a force exerts on a wrench for six different configurations
Calculate the moment of inertia for a cone.
Solve for the speed of a falling block that must pull another block and spin a pulley that has inertia.
Relate the linear velocity of a car to the angular velocity of the axle as read by the speedometer
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