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    Heat of Evaporation: Melting Ice to Boil Nitrogen

    Ohhh. I see it now. For some reason I thought the problem simply said, "the generic boiling point of nitrogen is -196 C," and thus was wondering how we knew for sure it would get to -196 C. If the initial temperature was NOT -196 C, then we would HAVE to know what the mass of nitrogen is to see...
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    Heat of Evaporation: Melting Ice to Boil Nitrogen

    Homework Statement A 0.035 kg ice cube at its melting point is dropped into an insulated container of liquid nitrogen. How much nitrogen evaporates if it is at its boiling point of -196 C? Nitrogen has heat of vaporization of 200000 J/kg Ice's specific heat is 2100 J/kg*C Homework Equations...
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    Rolling without slipping, theory

    Oops! acm is net force / m,
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    Rolling without slipping, theory

    Hm.. The only substitution which I can make is this: I am not sure how to get R in there. It seems that the coefficient of fric. is not dependent on R. Interesting, this follows:
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    Rolling without slipping, theory

    http://www.feynmanlectures.info/solutions/roll_without_slipping_sol_1.pdf On step 6, it says, "In order for the ball not to slip, the torque on the ball from friction can not be less than the total torque on the ball when it rolls" (Note: I tweaked the problem from a slope to a flat ground for...
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    Rolling without slipping, theory

    Oops! Yeah I changed it.
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    Rolling without slipping, theory

    Homework Statement I am solving a question that asks for, what's the minimum coefficient of friction required for a cylinder to roll without slipping? Where the cylinder has a force F acting on its center. Homework Equations And The Attempt at a Solution From the way I understand it, the...
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    Conservation of Energy for a roller coaster

    Ohhh are you guys saying: The potential energy at E is less than the potential energy at A? (Without reference to the kinetic energy) So thus the change in potential is negative, therefore the work done is positive?
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    Conservation of Energy for a roller coaster

    Wait but this is how I understood it: Point A had potential energy, and [K] kinetic energy Point E has [U2] potential energy, which is less than . If the system (cart and track) is energy conserving, then the decrease in must be transferred to an increase in [K] Therefore, the kinetic energy at...
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    Conservation of Energy for a roller coaster

    Thanks everyone for their input on this question!
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    Conservation of Energy for a roller coaster

    It is a weird question. But I guess the central point is that if we were to ignore the friction-less part, then the change in kinetic energy is negative, since the car would've had greater speed since it is at a lower height. So some kinetic energy was lost.
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    Energy and Friction in a block

    That is a very good point. We usually don't see coefficients of friction to be 1.0, so it probably was 0.1. I just wanted to make sure my understanding of work-energy relationship was correct. Thanks!
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    Conservation of Energy for a roller coaster

    Homework Statement If it can be assumed that the car has the same speed at points A and E, which of the following statements is true? a. The net work done in this system is 0 b. The net work done in this system is positive c. The net work done in this system is negative d. The net work done in...
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    Energy and Friction in a block

    Homework Statement Homework Equations The block has potential energy U at the top of the ramp, and this is transferred to kinetic energy K at the bottom, which is then trasnfered to work done by friction, Wfr. U = K Conservation of energy K = Wfr Conservation of energy g = 10 m/s2The Attempt...
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