The law of conservation of energy, which states that the amount of energy in a system is constant. For questions about Earth's environment, see the climate-science tag instead.
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Short-duration forces
In circular motion, it is said that the centripetal force acts only for a very very short period of time, hence is able to only change the direction but not magnitude of the velocity.
Similarly in a ...
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Two dimensional elastic collisions with varying angle of incident
If in an elastic collision I know all initial values and that mass for each object remains constant throughout the collision (but different from one another) how can I determine their final velocity ...
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Stopping distance of two objects with equal Kinetic Energy
I'm working on a problem regarding two objects with the same kinetic energy.
Two objects with masses of $m_1$ and $m_2$ have the same kinetic energy are both moving to the right. The same constant ...
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How should I apply conservation of energy to this problem?
A block rests on a table. Then the block is pushed by a spring and slides across the table until it falls to the ground. The mass of the block is $1.30\text{ kg}$, the spring constant $550\text{ ...
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wind versus compressed air
What would the calculation look like when computing the wind pressure of a moving vehilce versus compressed air pressure pushing against the the moving vehicle, how much compressed air pressure would ...
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Why is a washing machine unable to spin-dry a duvet?
Background story: I put my duvet (synthetic filling) into a washing machine, and the machine was unable to spin-dry it. My mom told me: "It's because it is full of air".
I was not satisfied with the ...
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Bungee jump physics
Question:
A bungee jumper jumps from a bridge. The length of the loose rope is 30 m. When the jumper reach the lowest point possible, the rope stretches 10 m. What is the final stretch of the rope, ...
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stress work of uniformly deforming continuum
I have a volume which is deforming (using explicit time-integration scheme) uniformly with velocity gradient $L$ and stress tensor $\sigma$. I would like to determine work done by the volume ...
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Salisbury Screens and Energy Conservation
From Wikipedia on how a Salisbury Screen works:
1. When the radar wave strikes the front surface of the dielectric, it is split into two waves.
2. One wave is reflected from the glossy ...
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How do I find the force from drop shock using material properties?
I am dropping a cylindrical cast iron bar with a know elastic modulus and poisson's ratio, $E_{1}$ and $v_{1}$, onto a flat beam of elastic modulus, $E_{2}$ and $v_{2}$ so there is tangential drop ...
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Where Is the mechanical energy flow in Poynting's theorem?
Poynting's theorem is usually interpreted as the statement of the conservation of energy, where the change in mechanical and electromagnetic energy within the volume equals the flow of electromagnetic ...
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How much money does an unused but plugged-in cellphone-charger waste in a year, if its not getting warm?
Is it right as xkcd states:
You can use heat flow to come up with simple rule of thumb: If an unused charger isn’t warm to the touch, it’s using less than a penny of electricity a day.
Or, more ...
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How do I calculate the energy balance of a trompe?
I was quite fascinated by the concept of an ancient type of air compressor, called a trompe. It entrains air bubbles into a falling stream of water via the Venturi effect, and extracts the air at a ...
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Is resilience a measure of power expended upon unloading?
I read the definition of 'elasticity' and 'resilience on Wikipedia:
Elasticity is a property of materials which return to their original
shape after they are deformed.
Resilience is the ...
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Need help with relativistic dynamics
I understand the concept, but I'm having a hard time applying the consequences of conservation (energy/momentum). For example:
A proton with kinetic energy 437 MeV hits a proton at rest elastically ...
