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Review of Chapters 1-8
In this episode, we review chapters 1-8, focusing on strategies to improve grades before the final exam. We discuss the importance of homework submissions, extra credit opportunities, and provide insi...
Review of Chapters 1-8
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So a couple of things related to grade. The first one is at this point you can log into
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the website see all of your grades. The homework that's up there is accurate as of yesterday,
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which means you have a score and a grade and that's the worst you can do in the class.
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There's a couple ways you can improve that grade. There's three ways you can improve the
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grades that's on the website. There's no way to make it any worse than it is. Okay, so the first
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way to improve it is by doing well in the final. If you do better on the final than you've
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done on any of the midterm, I will replace your midterm, your any scores on midterm that are
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lower than your final score, I will swap out your midterm for your final. Okay, whether that
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be a single midterm or all of them. If you do better on the final than you do than any of the
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midterm, the final score will replace each of those midterm. Okay, so what that means is no
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matter what your grade is right now, if you ace the final you can ace the class. Okay, if you
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don't want to count on that happening, and it's probably not a wise strategy to just assume that
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you will ace the final. Two other ways to improve your grade. One is you have until Tuesday,
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December 16th, that's the day of the final at 9 a.m. to complete any homework that you haven't
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yet completed. Now you don't get full credit for turning in late homework. It gets reduced,
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and at this point you can get up to 50% of the original credit for submitting any homework
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that you didn't submit initially. So if you missed an assignment or something like that you might
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want to go back. You can still do that. They will add points to your homework score and that will add
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everybody points to your overall grade. Yeah homework 11 is fixed. Yeah, if you try to submit homework 11 late,
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it probably told you you were going to get negative percent. The reason is I have it set so that every hour
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it takes off like 10% or something like that. It's supposed to stop doing that once it gets to 50%.
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I somehow forgot to set that floor. I just kept going negative and that's fixed. If you encounter any
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sort of weird behavior in any of the scores that you see, let me know. One of the things that was
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pointed out in the discussion forum is that it would be really useful if you could see your individual grade
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on the class webpage, which is exactly what the webpage is supposed to be doing. It wasn't doing that.
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It was only showing your aggregate grade. So I fixed that. So if you want to go back and see how you
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scored an each midterm and just verify what's there to accurate, I'd encourage you to do that. If there
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is a difference from what's written on the webpage and what's on your exam that I handed back, it's not
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a problem. If you tell me that, now, if you wait until after I submit grades, it's a real problem.
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So I double check. I triple check to make sure that everything is accurate. But I put up the webpage
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so that you can also check that yourself since it's in your best interest to make sure that's accurate.
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Okay, so that's two ways you can improve your grade. The third one is with extra credit.
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Right, so I put up an extra credit opportunity. There's one extra credit opportunity that's been
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available all along and a few people have taken advantage of it. If you find mistakes in any of the
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lecture slides, you can go on to the webpage and submit the mistake. And for every mistake you find,
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I'll give you a half percent extra credit on your overall grade. So there's been a few people who
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caught some errors. They have to be significant. If I misspele a word, I'm not going to give you extra
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points for that. You're welcome to submit it because I do want to make the slides better, but it's
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generally physics mistakes or math mistakes that I'll give credit for. So you can do that.
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The other thing that I'll give extra credit for is when I hand out the solutions or when I print
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the solutions online, you know, I tell you what the right answer is for the multiple choice
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questions, but I don't go into any detail on that. So I started a discussion thread.
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You can see it here, multiple choice solutions. You can go in there and you can write up a solution,
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an explanation as to why this is the right answer. And I will give a half percent credit
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to the author of each solution. Right, so we've had four midterms. There's about 10 multiple
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choice questions per midterm. That's about 40 opportunities for extra credit right there.
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Now I'm not going to give them all the one person. I set a half a 3% per student. So what that
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is, is that's enough extra credit to get you bumped up half a grade. So if you're a borderline,
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you know, you're worried that you have a B minus right now, but you almost have a B.
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Go ahead and do the extra credit. Make sure you get enough to get up over that threshold.
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And then you'll know going into the final that you have that minimum grade that you want.
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Any questions?
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You do not have to take the final. If you're happy with the grade you have right now,
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you do not have to take the final.
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Same.
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No, I only award one extra credit per question. So for example, I posted an example
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solution. What I expect. So I took the first midterm, very first question, and I posted
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the solution to that. So I won't award any extra credit for that problem because I already
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answered it. But that leaves you like 39 other problems you can submit solution for.
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So that's also a valuable resource if you're studying. And you're looking at the solution guide,
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and you can't understand why, you know, choice B was the right answer.
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You can look there and someone hopefully will have explained it for you. If they haven't,
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then maybe you can do some digging, figure it out. You can contact me, or you can come to my
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office hours. I'll still have office hours between now and the exam. Figure out what the solution
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is, post it, and get the extra credit for it.
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I did. It's down there. You can see there's already a few messages in this thread.
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To go in there and see what the example looks like.
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To follow that. Back guideline. Okay, so you got your midterms back.
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Couple of people who came in late.
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Can you see anyone else? Not a midterms.
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Okay, so if you're paying attention, I'll go over a few of the,
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a few of the multiple choice. You run to the computer after class. You can type up some of these
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responses and get extra credit for them. Okay, I'm not going to go over all of them.
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I'll try to focus on the ones that people had a lot of problems with.
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Number two.
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Ask about how fast a clock will run if we're on the moon.
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And it's a pendulum clock. So what we know about pendulum is that they're period
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or the frequency at which they run. I can get a frequency of square root of g over l.
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So on the moon, the acceleration due to gravity is less. Six times less.
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So the rate at which they're going to run is the square root of six times slower.
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That wasn't one of the options. None of the above.
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Assuming that your ears pop when the pressure increases by a certain amount in a pool,
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the trick is you have to figure out how far down the pressure is increased by this amount.
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Use path scales law to do that. I'm not going to work through that, but if you write down path scales
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law on your test, you can reference that in your textbook and figure out how you would do that.
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Problem four was a little tricky. Not tricky, just a little bit involved because there were two parts to it.
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We're asked about water coming out of a faucet. We have a given flow rate.
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After it's fallen 20 centimeters, we want to know the radius of the stream of water.
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So we have flow of water. So we should think Bernoulli's equation.
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We can pick two points. So the, yeah, top of the flow at the output of the faucet in 20 centimeters below,
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would be two logical points to pick. Bernoulli's equation lets us relate the energy pre-unit volume at point
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one to the energy pre-unit volume at point two. At both of these points, the fluid is outside
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of the pipe. So it's open to the air, which means the pressure both points is the same as the
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atmospheric, the low's terms cancel. There's a difference in height between the two points,
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and therefore there has to be a difference in velocity. So you're given the velocity at one point,
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you can find the velocity at the other. If you know V2, the velocity of the water down here 20
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centimeters below the output of the pipe, you can say the flow rate,
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which is area times velocity, has to be the same as the flow out of the pipe, which you're given.
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So you know what that equals to, 10 to the minus 4 meters cube per second.
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So you can solve for the area of that flow of water. Once you know the area, you can find the radius.
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Question 5 involves a standing wave on a string, a free end at x equals 100, a fixed end at x equals 0.
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So what that tells us is that there is a node here and an anti-node here,
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and you're asked to find where there can be an anti-node. So the fundamental mode for standing
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wave on the string is going to look like this. If an anti-node at the right or a node at the left,
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those come from our boundary conditions. There are higher harmonics that we can have as well.
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So you can quite draw that one scale.
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Here's the second harmonic, and it has an anti-node, one third of the way over at x equals 33 centimeters.
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That was the correct answer. I can make arguments why it's impossible to have an anti-node at 050 or 67.
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But you can see clearly that there definitely can be one at 33, so I'll leave it at that.
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Question number 6.
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Yeah.
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No, I said where can there be an anti-node? And clearly there can be an anti-node at this point
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if it's the second harmonic. It doesn't mean there will be an anti-node there,
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but there are some points like here where there cannot be an anti-node because there has to be a
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node because it's six. Likewise, I can argue that there has to be a node, but there cannot be an
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anti-node at 50 or 67. But so now I'll just, I've showed that there can be one at 33, so I'll leave it at that.
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Question 6 about the functional form for a wave on a string. Part A and B, your options A and B
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are not dimensionally consistent. You just look at this term inside of parentheses.
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B times Z, this is a length for unit time, that's a velocity, and this is a length distance.
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So the units on this are distance squared over time, the dimensions that are distance squared over time,
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the dimensions of this are time. These two terms are not dimensionally consistent. We can't subtract two
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quantities at a different dimension. So choice A or B physically are meaningless.
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So that leads us with choice C or D, and the difference between them is the sign, that affects whether the wave is going to the
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right or to the left, whether it's positive or negative. We're told we want a wave going in the positive Z direction.
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So choice C, as if the time increases, the position has to increase as well for this argument to stay the same.
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That is to say if we follow a point on the wave, it will move to the right.
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If the wave is described by choice C, it will move to the left, if it's described by choice B.
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If the choice C is the right answer there.
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Number 7, we increase the volume on our stereo by 13 dB, how much does the sound change?
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Increasing by 13 dB on a logarithmic scale, which is the scale that loudness is measured in.
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The dB is the logarithmic unit. It means that the intensity increases by 10 to the 13 over 10,
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or 10 to the 1.3, which is a factor of 20.
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So the first thing you had to realize is that this dB is not a direct measure of intensity, so it's not 13 quatt's per centimeter squared.
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It's not a factor increase, so it's not 13 times.
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And then if you work out using the relationship between sound level and intensity, you could solve for 20.
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Question 8, a bagpipe player has a pipe that's 30 centimeters long, open it one end closed at the other.
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So it's like this string, and then it will have an anti-node on one side and a node on the other.
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We're going to ask about the frequency of the fundamental.
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It's fundamental standing wave.
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One that has a wave form that looks like this.
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This is one quarter of a wavelength, going from zero to a max.
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I'm going to go back to zero, into a min, and back to zero.
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That would be one full wavelength of the sound.
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If you recognize that, you can see that the length is a quarter wavelength.
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The wavelength is 4L or 1.2 meters.
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So if you're given the wavelength and the speed of sound, you can find the frequency.
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Frequency is the speed of sound divided by the wavelength, and you're given those values.
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You're given the velocity of sound in the problem, and you can solve for the wavelength and plug it in.
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You get 287 hertz.
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And then in question 9, you're asked how that sound would change if the bagpipe player is walking
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towards you. So when you have a problem that involves sound and motion, you should think
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of Doppler Shift. So here we have a Doppler Shift, because the sound is coming towards us.
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We'd expect the frequency to go up. So one of these two positive shifts.
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And if they're walking at one meter per second, and the speed of sound is 344 meters per second,
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that fractional shift is about 0.3%.
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You can work that out using the Doppler formula that was given in the last problem.
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But that simple argument shows you that it increases by about 0.3%.
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Any questions then on the multiple choice?
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Yeah, that's your question.
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That's not a question.
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Well, A and B are dimensionally inconsistent.
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Right? C is a wave that's moving in the positive Z direction.
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D is a wave moving in the negative Z direction.
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All right. The first of the two work it out problems.
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This problem really had, there's three parts to the problem, but really there's two logical parts.
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The first two parts relate to the forces that act on this floating cup.
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And then the third part relates to the oscillatory motion that you'd have if it were left
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creed above back and forth in the water.
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So in part A, we're asked how far below the water line this cup will sit when it's floating.
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And what that means is the sit there when it's floating means it's an equilibrium.
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Equilibrium means the forces balance.
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And when you deal with forces, the basic problem solving strategy is always the same.
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Draw a free body diagram, add up the forces, the net force, you said equal to the math
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times acceleration. That's Newton's second law.
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Then you solve whatever quantity you're interested in.
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So in this case, it's an equilibrium.
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So we know the net force has equal zero.
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That net force comes from the sum of the forces on it.
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There's the weight pulling it down.
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And then because it's in the water, there's a buoyant force pushing it up.
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That allows it to float.
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So you have to recognize that the buoyant force is equal to rho Vg.
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And that the volume that's displaced is related to how far below the water it floats.
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Once you've done that, you can solve for x at 2.4 centimeters.
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The way this was graded, you got one point for recognizing that this was an equilibrium
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and writing this equilibrium constraint.
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You got 2.4 correctly recognizing that the buoyant force is given by this expression here.
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One point, if you identified this more generic term of the expression,
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one point for identifying the proper weight of the cuff that opposed that buoyant force,
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one point for solving for x and one point for getting the correct numerical answer
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with the appropriate unit.
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So pi d squared over 4 is the area of a circle of diameter d.
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The area of the cylinder, the area of that cylinder times the type, x,
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is the volume of the cylinder that's underwater.
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That book gives us the volume of this weight.
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Yes, I do.
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If the floating cup is pushed down an additional centimeter at part B,
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what is the net force on it?
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Basically the same equation, not the same equation, but the net force is the left side of this
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equilibrium expression.
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So we just have to take the left side of the expression that we had up here
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and evaluate it not at x but at whatever we got here plus one centimeter.
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And that will give us our answer.
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So instead of saying it's 2.4 centimeters below the surface, we'll say it's 3.4,
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we'll plug that in to get about half a Newton pointing up.
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So 3 points for correctly writing the expression for the net force.
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The buoyant force pointing up, the weight pointing down.
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1.4
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1.4 simplifying this into this form,
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which you can then evaluate for 2.2 to get the final answer.
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And then finally part C will be the frequency of oscillation after it's released.
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So this is pushed down.
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It's not an equilibrium.
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At least once we let go, it's not an equilibrium, it's going to shoot back up.
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And that's going to cause it to sort of bounce back and forth and oscillate.
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So the key here is we know how much force it takes to push it down 1 centimeter.
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So it can treat it like a spring.
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With a spring constant, that's given by the necessary force to push it 1 centimeter divided by 1 centimeter.
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Once we know that spring constant, omega is square root of k over m.
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The frequency that we're trying to find is omega over 2 pi.
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So we can evaluate all those things, you get 3.2 hertz.
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So when you're doing problems with oscillation, the key is always to be able to find omega.
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Because omega is related to forces and the motion.
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And in this problem, you got one point for recognizing the frequency you wanted with omega over 2 pi.
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2 points for figuring out what omega is, omega's square root of k over m.
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One, two points for figuring out what k is, k is the effective spring constant for this system.
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And then one point for evaluating and getting the final answer.
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Any questions and problem pen?
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Okay, then problem 11, this is definitely the one that people struggled with the most.
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Maybe because the last thing we covered, or the fact that we only spent a single day talking about Doppler shift.
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I will say if you struggled on this, you probably want to brush up on the Doppler shift before the final exam.
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So I gave you the formula for the Doppler shift.
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But I didn't explicitly explain what any of these terms were.
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So really all the points that you got were for figuring out what the terms were.
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I didn't give any points for writing down formulas because they are given you the necessary formula.
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So it's just a matter of figuring out what's going on in the problem.
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We've got two police cars, car 1 and car 2.
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And then we've got us, we're the listener over here.
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These things are moving faster than we are.
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We know that because they pass us.
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So they must be moving faster.
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We're told that we hear a frequency of 680 hertz.
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So the frequency that the listener hears is 680 hertz.
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In part A, we're told that once one of these police cars has passed us.
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So the situation looks like this.
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Where car 2 is beyond us and car 1 is still approaching.
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We're right here in the middle.
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When one of the cars has passed us, we hear a beep frequency of 2 hertz.
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So a beep frequency means there's two different frequencies that differ by 2 hertz.
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Now, as cars, as a source of sound approaches us, we hear it's Doppler frequency gets up shifted.
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As it's receding from us, it gets down shifted.
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So if car 1 is approaching us, we know that that one, we hear 680 hertz.
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That was given in the problem.
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The frequency 1 is 680 hertz.
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While that was given in the problem, very few people actually identified that in part A
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as the frequency we'd hear from the cars is behind us.
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For car 2, we know it's frequency as to be less than that.
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As it gets down shifted since it's receding from us.
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And it differs by 2 hertz.
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So frequency 2 must be frequency 1 minus 2 hertz.
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Or 678.
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Okay, so you get one point for recognizing that the approaching cars are frequency of 680 hertz.
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I consider that an easy part of the problem.
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So I only awarded one point for that.
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Two points for recognizing that the other frequency that you hear is down shifted.
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One point for recognizing is down shifted by 2 hertz.
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And then one more point for putting all that together and getting 678 hertz.
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So the other part.
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Part B asks, what's the frequency that one of the
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policemen would hear in his own car?
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So if what we hear is the frequency of the listener, what we're after here is the frequency of the source.
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That's what the policemen would hear in his own car.
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Okay, so a couple of ways to go about this.
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One is we can consider this situation over here.
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Where this car is behind us.
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This car is in front of us.
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They both are producing the same sound as heard by the policemen in the cars.
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But to us, one sounds like it's at 680 hertz and one sounds like it's at 678.
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So what we can do is we can take this equation.
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We can plug in 680 to the sound we hear and the policemen is approaching us.
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The policemen is approaching us.
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It has a negative source velocity.
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And we can plug in 678 when the policemen is going away from us
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that's a positive source velocity.
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Install for both the frequency and the velocity.
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So you could do all that.
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Or I would also accept 679 based on the fact that it's halfway in between 680 and 678.
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And there's a lot of mathematical theory that goes into the justification of that argument
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involving things called first-order Taylor expansion, which I'm not expecting you to know.
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But I would still give you full credit for just writing down the pathway in between.
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Even though it's not very mathematically rigorous, it turns out to be accurate.
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Okay, so each siren is at 679 hertz.
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Part C, what speed are the police cars driving at?
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Well, here we know the speed they're driving at is V sub S.
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Speed of the source of the sound.
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We know the speed of the listener is 20 meters per second.
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We know the speed of sound is 340 meters per second.
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We know the frequency of the source is whatever we got in part B.
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Whether you got that right or not, it's irrelevant.
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How that should be 679.
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The frequency we hear would be 680 if the cars approaching us.
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And if the cars approaching us, we need to recognize that our velocity is negative.
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Because we're moving away from the car.
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So if you do all those things, you can evaluate what the speed of the car is by solving that expression.
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So one point, just for recognizing that the V in this formula is 340,
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which was actually stated in the problem.
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But if you wrote down this formula and you started plugging in numbers,
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you should get one point, it's plugging in 340 for V,
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one point for plugging in minus 20 meters per second as the speed of the listener.
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And that's assuming that you're using the Doppler shift formula
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or the situation described initially where the cars are approaching you.
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And you're moving away from them.
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One point for recognizing that the source frequency is not 680 hertz.
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Not what we hear, but rather whatever you got for part B.
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One point for recognizing that the frequency that we hear is 680 hertz.
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And a lot of people got those mixed up and said that the source frequency was 680.
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It's not the frequency that we hear.
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So a point for that, and then a point for solving
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for the final velocity of 20.5 meters per second.
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And you can just check that is faster than we're driving, which is what we expected.
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They're driving faster than us, that's why they passed us.
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Part D, what would you hear if you were driving at the same speed but in the opposite direction?
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Well, all we have to do is take this expression here and change the sign for V sub L.
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From it was minus 20 meters per second, we change it to plus.
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And we get 765 hertz.
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If we're driving at the police cars.
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Since we're driving at them, our relative separation is decreasing much more rapidly.
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Therefore, we get a much larger fast-forward shift.
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So one point for recognizing that you needed to change the sign and make that plus 20 meters per
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second. Two points for using the proper speed of the police cars, which is what you
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got in part C. And then one point for recognizing that the frequency is to be upshifted.
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And one point for getting the final answer.
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The question from problem 11.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Then let's move on and do some review.
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Do you want me to work out a few problems in great detail?
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There are a lot of problems in little detail.
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How many people would rather see fewer problems in more detail?
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One, two, three.
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How many would rather see more problems in less detail?
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Okay, that seems to be the choice.
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So we started with vectors.
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Vectors was chapter one.
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Vectors are quantities that have a magnitude and a direction.
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We represent them by arrows.
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Arrows are things that have a length and a direction.
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And we can relate the length of an arrow to the magnitude of its components along the x and y
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axis using the Pygoryan theorem.
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You can find the angle of that.
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We usually measure angles to respect to the positive x-axis from trigonometry instead of the x and y
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components and the angles the arc tangent.
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And likewise, if we're given the components of a vector, we can find its magnitude
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using the Pygoryan theorem.
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I just said that.
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We can find the components from trigonometry knowing the length and the angle.
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Using basic trigonometry.
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So, let's do a problem.
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A ferrous wheel spins such that
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the carriages on the rim have a radial acceleration of point four meters per second squared
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and a tangential acceleration of point three meters per second squared.
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Find the magnitude of the total acceleration.
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Which direction does it act?
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So, we'll draw a little picture of what's going on.
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It doesn't tell me where on the ferrous wheel the car is.
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So, I'll just pick a point.
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The radial acceleration, radial means in the towards the center.
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And if this thing is going around in a circle, I know that acceleration needs to be inwards.
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And that has the magnitude of point four.
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Yep, centripetal and radial.
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That's the same.
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Pangential acceleration of point three meters per second squared.
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Pangential is perpendicular to the radial direction.
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Okay, so we can find the magnitude of the total acceleration.
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We have two components.
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Magnitude is what we get when we add up those components.
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So, this is the total acceleration.
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And it's magnitude you can find from the Pythagorean theorem.
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Alright, so let's consider this triangle right here.
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I'll rewrite this vector over here.
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And apply the Pythagorean theorem.
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And when I evaluate that, I will get point five meters per second squared.
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And so, that's how long this is vectoring.
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I'm also asking which direction does it act?
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Okay, so I can draw a diagram for these vectors.
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I've already done that.
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Let me draw it down here where it's maybe more clear.
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I can pick an angle in this diagram, solve for that angle.
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And then I need a way to express what that numeric value mean.
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In this case, it's going to mean an angle that's in the tangential direction relative
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to the radial direction.
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Okay.
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So, I can say that tangent of that angle is opposite over adjacent.
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And so, I can solve for a theta.
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I think that's 27 degrees.
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Well, they don't have it worked out.
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And it's not enough just to say 27 degrees.
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I have to somehow explain what that means.
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And it said usually angles are measured with respect to the x-axis,
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but I haven't drawn an x-axis yet.
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So, I have to say that 27 degrees.
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From the radial direction.
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Towards the direction of the tangential acceleration.
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So, that was chapter 1.
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Chapter 2, we talked about different parameters in motion.
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Velocity displacement and acceleration is the three quantities we dealt with a lot.
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Displacement, we represent by the vector x, the location of an object.
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Velocity is the time rate of change of displacement.
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And acceleration is the time rate of change of velocity or the second derivative of displacement.
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So, all these things are vectors.
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The displacement is a position.
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So, as a position in two or three-dimensional space,
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velocity is the time rate of change of that.
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So, it's also a vector.
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It has a magnitude and a direction.
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You're asked for a velocity.
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You need to give the magnitude and the direction associated with it.
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Likewise for acceleration.
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That's important.
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Acceleration is important because it relates.
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The forces that act on an object to how the object moves.
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Newton second law said f equals mA.
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We could use pre-body diagrams to help us determine what the net force on an object is.
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We could set them equal to mass times acceleration.
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Oftentimes, we ended up solving for the acceleration.
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Using these relationships to figure out how the object is moving.
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So, when you have constant acceleration, there were some equations that come from those relationships.
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The equations, we call these either the projectile motion equations
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or the equations for constant acceleration.
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They relate velocity, time, and position
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when the acceleration is constant.
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If you know two of these quantities, if you know how fast something is moving
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at say two different times,
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you can use this relationship to relate those initial and final velocities for the time that
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elapses between them.
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If you know two different velocities, the two different positions in space for an object,
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you can relate those two velocities to how far the object moves.
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And likewise, you can use the bottom equations to relate changes in time to changes in position.
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So, use these for the projectile motion type of problems.
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A simple example of that is what's the speed of a golf ball hit at 30 degrees if it travels 200 meters
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and we neglect any drag or air resistance.
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So, we have a situation that we can diagram. It usually helps to draw a little picture.
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Here's what's going on. The balls initially shot at 30 degrees with some unknown speed
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and we know that it travels 200 meters, meaning it's height.
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As it goes up, it returns to its starting height after some amount of time.
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And at that instant time, 200 meters away.
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So, projectile motion problems. We're going to use those projectile motion equations.
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And we're going to relate what's going on in the x direction and what's going on in the y direction.
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And the thing that relates those is time.
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So, usually set up an expression in one direction.
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Solve for the time. It takes that expression to be true.
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And use that in the other direction.
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Here, you don't know the initial velocity.
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But whatever it is, it determines how long it's in the air and it determines how far it goes.
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So, we can write an expression for how long it's in the air and how far it goes.
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We can require that it go 200 meters and then solve for what the initial velocity must be.
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So, in that y direction, you can say
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the height must return to zero, started zero and ended zero after some time C.
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Initial velocity in the y direction.
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This is theta for 30 degrees.
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The y component of velocity is going to be v sine of 30 degrees.
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The acceleration is going to be minus g.
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And we can use this, for example, to solve for how long the object is in the air.
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If we knew the velocity, we don't know the velocity.
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If we knew the time, we could solve this for the velocity.
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So, we have two things we don't know.
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We need a second equation.
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So, we'll consider the same general expression in the x direction.
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Okay, because we know something about how far it goes and we want to relate that to it time.
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Okay, so it goes 200 meters, starting from zero.
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Initial velocity in the x direction.
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You can find from this diagram, it's v cosine of 30 degrees.
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The acceleration in the x direction is zero.
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Gravity points down.
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That's our y direction, not along x.
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Okay, so I've got two equations and two unknowns.
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I don't know v and I don't know t.
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But given that I've got two equations, I can solve them.
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So, I can, for example, solve this one for t.
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Plug it into here and solve this for v.
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So, this tells me that t is equal to 200 meters over v cosine 30 degrees.
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Plug that in.
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Up here, solve the remaining expression for v.
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So, this v can't solve that v.
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So, the sine 30 over cosine 30, I can write as tangent of 30 degrees.
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If I bring this term, I'll leave it where it is.
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I'll bring this term to the other side and make it positive.
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I have a value for g.
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And,
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I'll bring the numerical values here.
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I have to take this v squared and put it over on this side if I want.
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And then I can solve this for v.
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Which I'll leave as an exercise for you.
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You can check.
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If that gives you 4.85 meters per second.
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And it's worked out in the notes, so you can reference that.
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And, questions then?
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Chapter 1, 2 and 3 that we just covered.
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Okay, centripetal acceleration is a different class of motion.
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We talked about projectile motion just now.
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That's been things that are constant acceleration.
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A lot of times though, things aren't moving in parabolic trajectories.
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They're instead moving in circles.
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Lots of examples of this.
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And when something moves in a circle,
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we know that its radial acceleration has to be v squared over r.
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You see on a test an object moves in a circular path,
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right down v squared over r as you're starting point.
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You know that's the acceleration that the object has.
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And it will likely be important in solving for any of the properties of motion
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or the forces that act on it that cause it to move in a circle.
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Okay, chapter 4 and 5, we talked about Newton's law.
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Newton's first law.
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An object that's moving will keep moving unless it's acted on by an outside force.
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It'll keep moving in the same direction with the same speed.
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Likewise, if it's not moving, it will remain at right.
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So Newton's second law quantifies that a little bit.
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It says that the net force on an object equals mass 10th acceleration.
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So the first law basically says that the net force is zero, the acceleration is zero.
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We use the second law all the time.
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Okay, that is the one thing.
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If you only took one thing away from this class,
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you'd probably be taking the class again next semester.
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But I hope it hopes that that would be it.
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The net force is mass 10th acceleration.
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Whenever we have problems to deal with forces,
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we draw for everybody diagram.
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We add up the forces in the x and y direction.
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That's what we call the net force.
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We set that equal to the mass 10th acceleration in the x and y direction.
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And that gives us some equations that we can start from to try to solve for the things we want to know.
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Okay, so we use Newton's second law all the time.
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Newton's third law tells us that if we push on something, it pushes back.
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And if we push hard on it, it pushes back just as hard.
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And the word that's what it means mathematically,
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it says the force of A and B is always equal enough to force of B on A.
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That is often useful in understanding how forces between different objects interact.
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So let's do an example of that.
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Physics student stands in a hot air balloon.
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What are the forces on the student?
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What are the reaction forces?
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Meaning which of the forces obey Newton's third law?
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So let's draw a picture of the hot air balloon.
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So what are some of the forces that act on the balloon on the person
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the weight?
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So let's say the weight of the person
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comes w and that points down.
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What is before we go any further?
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If the weight is pulling the person down, Newton's third law says
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the person must be pulling something up.
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Not the normal force.
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Not tension.
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There is a buoyant force, but that's not
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what's pulling the person down?
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Gravity.
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What's causing the gravity?
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What object?
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The earth.
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The earth is pulling on the person.
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So Newton's third law says the person must be doing what to the earth.
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Pulling on the earth.
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Newton's third law relates the weight of the person
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to the force that the earth feels as it's attracted towards the person.
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Right?
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The person is attracted towards the earth.
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Therefore the earth is attracted towards the person.
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Okay?
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There is a buoyant force on the hot air balloon
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and that might be in the opposite direction and have the equal magnitude as the weight of the person
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as this thing is an equilibrium.
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But that is not due to Newton's third law.
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The third law says the person is pulled down by the earth.
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So the earth must be pulled up by the person.
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What about the normal force?
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So there's a normal force pushing up on the person.
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The basket pushes up on the person.
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What does the person do to the basket?
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Pushes down.
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There's a normal force on the basket
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caused by the person pushing on it.
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So there are a couple examples of pairs of forces that obey Newton's third law.
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And when we're dealing with forces we start with free body diagrams.
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We should be expected, I expect you to be able to draw free body diagrams even for some wacky
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situations.
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So you should expect that you'll be tested on this.
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Let's consider a wacky situation.
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A balloon.
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That is, you can think of this as like a balloon that goes up to the top of a
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slanted ceiling.
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It hits the ceiling.
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And it's sitting there against the ceiling.
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What are the forces that act on it?
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Let me make this a little easier and just consider like a helium balloon.
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And I collect all the stuff at the basket.
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What forces act on this balloon?
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Go what?
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Okay, what do we call that force of the ceiling pushing on the balloon?
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Normal force.
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And which way does it act?
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Yeah.
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It's perpendicular to the surface.
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So it depends on the direction of the surface.
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In this case, the planted surface, so it's the planted normal force.
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What are their forces act on the balloon?
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There's three more.
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Okay, so the balloon has some weight.
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There's friction.
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Which way is friction going to act?
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Yeah, opposite.
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So any time there's two surfaces in contact, there can be friction.
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If you ask if there were no friction, what would happen?
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Well, the balloon would want to slide up towards the top of the ceiling.
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It's like, the ceiling balloon or some sort of balloon that's in the back.
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Floating up.
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If it wants to slide up, but it's not, or even if it is, friction has to oppose that.
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It has to lung the surface.
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And that leads one more force.
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Boinsy.
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Yeah, we need buoyant force.
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Right now, all the forces are pointing down.
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So there has to be something causing to go up.
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That's the buoyant force.
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Likewise, we encounter lots of things that are not bumping up
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up against this plant, but sitting on top of this plant,
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so you could have a similar diagram that looks like this.
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Work.
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So that was chapter 4 and 5.
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Jack for six and seven involved work in energy.
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So work is what you have when a force acts over a distance.
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So if the force and the displacement are in the same direction,
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like here, you see there's positive work done.
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That means energy is being added to the system.
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So the weight lifter is adding energy to the barbell by lifting it up.
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Holding the barbell, although it may be difficult, doesn't involve any work.
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No work in the physics sense.
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No energy is being added to the barbell.
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There may be a force applied to hold it up, but it's not moving.
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The displacement is zero.
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So from work,
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it's force dotted with displacement.
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You need a force and a displacement in order to have work.
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In here, rather than just drop the barbell and have it smash through the floor,
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the weight lifter is setting it down gently.
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So we're still applying it upward force, as you set it down.
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But it moves down.
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So a force and a displacement in opposite directions
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give us a negative amount of work.
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That means energy is being removed from the system.
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It's lowering the object down slowly, removing the potential energy that it had
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without converting that to kinetic energy, which is what would happen if he just dropped it.
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You can understand work in energy conservation a little bit by considering this diagram.
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There's sort of three different forms of energy that we deal with in physics 50.
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There's potential energy over here.
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And there's kinetic energy over here.
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There's also heat.
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Heat is what you get when there's friction or any non-conservative forces that act.
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That's this red area over here.
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And so if there's no, those are the different types of energy.
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Work just moves energy around.
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So work can transfer potential energy to kinetic energy and back,
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or it can transfer kinetic energy to heat.
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If work transfers kinetic energy to heat, we call that a non-conservative force,
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non-conservative because there's no way to get the heat back into kinetic energy.
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It's a one-way energy drain.
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If you consider just the kinetic and potential energy, it's dotted line.
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Then any energy that flashes back and forth between kinetic and potential,
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we say is conserved.
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It's still part of the total energy.
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The system can be transferred back and forth at will by the work done by conservative forces.
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So work is a changing of energy in one form to another.
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Conservative forces do work in converting kinetic and potential.
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Non-conservative forces convert kinetic energy to potential energy.
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So with this diagram, we can write the conservation of energy equation.
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It says the initial potential in kinetic energy,
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total energy in this dotted line, these are the things that we can actually measure.
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Very difficult to measure the thermal energy of the system.
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So the energy that we can measure plus any work that drains energy from the system,
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that's how much energy must be left at some final time.
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So the final potential plus final kinetic.
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So that's the conservation of energy equation.
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We've used this quite a lot both in class and in lab.
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It's important that you not forget about this term,
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work due to non-conservative forces.
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Do you have friction or drag of any sort?
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That's going to be a term here.
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It's always negative.
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Non-conservative force is always negative work.
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They always take energy away.
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So we have this on the left side.
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It says your initial energy minus whatever is taken away by friction is what you're left with.
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Okay.
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Okay, we have three problems.
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I think we have time to do one of them.
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Let me show them to you.
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And you can decide which one will do.
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There are 16 multiple choice questions.
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Three short answer questions.
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16 one from each chapter.
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Okay.
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Here we have two cars colliding.
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And we want to figure out
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after the collision which direction they move.
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Here we have an elevator.
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And we want to figure out how fast it moves.
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When we release it from rest.
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And here we have a collision.
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Two objects collide.
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They bounce off of each other.
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And we want to figure out
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what direction they move after the collision.
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So all three of these problems in some form or another will be in the final.
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We have time to go over one of them now.
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Who wants to go over the first one?
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Second one.
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Third one.
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Second one, one out.
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We'll do that.
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I told you very early on in the course
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that you would benefit greatly from understanding
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Atwood's machine.
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There's basically this problem.
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And there's many different incarnations
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of this problem that I can ask.
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And I've already asked one or two versions of this
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on various exams.
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Basically it's an elevator or a mass.
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It's not three to fall.
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Rather it's got a rope tied to it.
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And depending on the problem there might be a block that it's dragging.
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Or another block that it's lifting up.
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And this problem.
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There's another block that it's lifting up.
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So the buckets are massless.
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They're loaded with these various loads.
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There are these pulleys that have some mass and some radius.
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And they're solid dip.
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The system has zero energy when the loaded bucket is at rest
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and it's 10 meters off the ground.
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What is the, I'm sorry, when this bucket is at rest and on the ground
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how much energy does it have when it's loaded and 10 meters up.
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Okay, so that's some sort of initial energy.
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Okay, so compared to when the bucket is at the ground,
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this bucket is higher up.
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This bucket over here is 10 meters lower.
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Okay, so.
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I call this point one.
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And this point zero.
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The energy at point one is entirely potential energy.
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This bucket has some additional potential energy from being lifted up.
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And this one has lost some potential energy to being lowered.
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So the potential energy looks like MGH.
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There's the, we call it the bucket and the counterweight.
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I'll call it the bucket.
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Plus the counterweight both has some potential energy.
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The bucket has a mass of 400 kilograms.
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It has been lifted up 10 meters.
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The counterweight has a mass of 300 kilograms.
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And it has been lowered 10 meters.
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Therefore, it's potential energy decreased.
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Well, it's at the starting point.
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So I have 10 and 9.8 meters per second squared.
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That's 98.
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I'm 400 minus 300.
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Kilogram meters per second, meter squared per second squared is a dual.
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The system has 9,800 duals
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when it's lifted up 10 meters.
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What is the total kinetic energy of the entire system?
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And the bucket is moving with its speed V.
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So if the bucket,
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I'll release this and this is going to fall down at its speed V.
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This bucket is falling.
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What else is moving?
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If this bucket falls.
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The other side goes up.
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And what else is moving?
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The pulley is moving.
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And because they have mass, we can't neglect that.
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They rotate with the speed of V over R.
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They both have the same radius.
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Both are going to rotate at the same rate.
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So there's four things in this problem that move together.
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So when I ask what the total kinetic energy the system is, I need to include all four.
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All four effects.
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So something moving linearly as the kinetic energy of one half and V squared.
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So let's take one half the mass of the bucket and this velocity squared.
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We have one half the mass of the counterweight.
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It's moving at the same speed as the bucket.
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This is the patch by a rope.
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If this is moving down, this is moving up.
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They're moving at the same rate.
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Which is V.
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And then the pulleys.
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There's two of them.
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They're identical.
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So I'll just write twice the kinetic energy of one pulley.
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And the kinetic energy of a disc or any rotating object is one half i omega squared.
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Here I have to recognize that pulleys are shaped like a disc.
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And that a disc.
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It's a moment of inertia of one half and r squared.
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So I can plug all this and plug this in to the inertia of the disc.
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I can plug this in for its angular velocity.
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One half times one half.
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The r squared cancel.
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One of these twos cancel one of the one halves.
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The term here looks like one half the mass of the pulley times V squared.
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I add with the kinetic energy the bucket and the kinetic energy the counterweight.
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That's the total kinetic energy of the system when the bucket's moving at speed V.
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And I could plug in the specific masses that I'm given to the pulley, the bucket and the counterweight.
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And then finally in part C I say at the bucket's released from the height of 10 meters how fast is it going when it crashes into the ground.
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Well so we've already done all the work here.
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We've looked at how much energy it has when it's at 10 meters.
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If that all gets converted into the kinetic energy and we can set this energy equal to this expression and solve for the velocity.
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So I had a number 9800 joules for the total energy saying E1 equal kinetic energy at point zero.
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And that kinetic energy at point zero.
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I'm going to factor out the one halves and the V's.
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One half and some quantity and V squared.
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That quantity looks like the mass of the bucket, 400 kilograms plus the mass of the
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counterweight 300 kilogram plus the mass of the pulley 50, that's total 750 kilograms.
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And I don't have this worked out.
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I don't know the number.
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I can write this.
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Like that.
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There are.
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So there's a factor of two over here but I've already cancelled that.
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Okay so a couple of comments as you go through your final exam really as you go through the rest of your career either in physics or in engineering or whatever you're studying.
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When you're working out the solutions to problems.
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It's very tempting to take the information you're given, plug numbers into your calculator and write down values.
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You get the wrong value.
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You're not going to get any partial credit if you don't show your work.
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It's important to show your work as well if you have the right answer because it's useful for others to see what you've done.
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It's useful for yourself to see what you've done when you go back and look at stuff.
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And while that may not, while that may not seem that important now when you're working.
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It's a professional.
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It's very important because people don't trust anybody.
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Everything you do is going to get reviewed and checked and confirmed and you're going to confirm other people's work.
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So if you haven't documented what you did then it's useless someone has to redo it.
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On the exam documenting what you do allows you to get some partial credit.
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So if I can see what you were trying to do I can give you partial credit for the steps you did along the way.
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It will also help you avoid mistakes.
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You write things out.
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Any numbers that you write down need to have units.
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Otherwise this doesn't represent anything physically.
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Okay this is an energy it has to have units of energy.
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If you wrote this I could say well they're trying to use conservation of energy.
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You don't include that jewel this is no longer a conservation of energy.
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Well that's also important because it allows you to see sometimes that there's discrepancies.
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If you're trying to add two quantities and their units don't match
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that's a sign you've done something wrong and you can go back and try to fix it.
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If you haven't written the units down you'll never get that.
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Okay so that's the one thing that people could do that I think would most improve their scores.
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I mean one little thing you could do.
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So I would do that.
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Also writing down sort of your starting expression.
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Writing them out allows you to make sure you've got all the different terms considered.
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If you later want to go back and check you might realize all I didn't consider
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the fact that this problem has pullies in it that have math.
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You might have neglected a term like that.
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It's easy to see if you've included that.
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If you write out all the individual terms at some starting point and work from there.
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Okay so I'd encourage you to do that.
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Hopefully if you do that if you learn from the mistakes you made on the previous midterms.
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If you do the practice midterms which I posted online and if you either do the extra credit
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by putting together solutions for the multiple choice in the midterms or review the solutions
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that other people put together hopefully that will help you on the final and hopefully that
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will improve your grade and I won't be seeing you next year if you'll be in 51 or 52.
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That's all for me.
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Good luck on the final.
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Yeah.
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