Height is measure of vertical distance, either vertical extent (how "tall" something or someone is) or vertical position (how "high" a point is).
For example, "The height of that building is 50 m" or "The height of an airplane in-flight is about 10,000 m".
When the term is used to describe vertical position (of, e.g., an airplane) from sea level, height is more often called altitude.
Furthermore, if the point is attached to the Earth (e.g., a mountain peak), then altitude (height above sea level) is called elevation.In a two-dimensional Cartesian space, height is measured along the vertical axis (y) between a specific point and another that does not have the same y-value. If both points happen to have the same y-value, then their relative height is zero. In three-dimensional space, height is measured along the vertical z axis, describing a distance from (or "above") the x-y plane.
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Last year, I remember doing a ballistic pendulum problem, and this year I forgot how I did it. Essentially, what happens if you have a ballistic pendulum, of length 5m, and you shoot a bullet at it that cause it to go to a height of 14m? (What I mean is that the bullet...
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A body is thrown into the air with an initial velocity of v0. What initial velocity is required to double the maximum height previously attained?Homework Equations
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I found the max height v02/64 at v0 by solving for 't' in the velocity equation when...
I saw a MIT course on YouTube where the well know professor say that if I augment the height per 10 the strength augment by 100 (square) but the mass by 1000 (cube) so an animal would be 10 time relatively weaker if 10 time taller so he explain there is a limit to animal size because of this. He...
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I have a pump which for 0 head will provide a max flow of 12 l/min (0.0002 m^3/s). For the piping I am using (3/8"), by my calculations this gives a theoretical MAX mass flow rate of 0.2 m/s and a MAX velocity of 2.8 m/s.
As i understand it, these values are not taking into account (1)...
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A collapsible plastic bag contains a glucose solution. If the average gauge pressure in the vein is 15000 Pa, what must be the minimum height of the bag in order to infuse glucose into the vein? Assume that the specific gravity of the solution is 1.04. The acceleration of...
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I have a 426g block on a frictionless ramp with initial height, h. The ramp curves, where the height is 2.6 meters before it flies off. I need to know the initial height, can someone please help? :smile:
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A ball thrown straight up in the air at a speed of 9.7 m s-1
How to work out it's maximum height before falling to earth?
*No air resistance - gravity is 9.8 m s-2*
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No mass is given for the ball, so I'm a bit stuck with this.
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A ball falls from the top of a building.
It falls past a window. It is in view for .16 seconds.
The window is 1.7 m long.
How high was the building off which it was dropped?
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I'm trying to use
.5 a t^2 + vt + x
but it's not working
The...
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Estimate the speed of a satellite orbiting Earth at an height of 400km. Also determine the period of the orbit.
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Centripetal acceleration: F=\frac{mv^2}{r}
Newton's Law of Universal gravitation: F=\frac{G(MassEarth)(MassSatellite)}{R^2}
G =...
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A water tank the shape of an inverted circular cone with a base radius of 2m and height of 4m. if water is being pumped into the tank at a rate of 2m^3/min, find the rate at which the water level is rising when the water is 3m deep.
dv/dt = 2m^3/min
h = 3m
r = h/2...
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Our lab was to predict the distance a bungee jumper will fall before coming to rest.
I already found the spring constant
When we have the spring constant we had to find the minimum safe drop height for a bungee jumper before being stopped by the spring. The following...
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A roller is rolling with a constant speed before and after the drop. How do i figure out the impact force exerted on the wheel when it just touch the floor from a height h?
Assume, angular velocity...
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A 2kg. lump of clay traveling at a speed of 20m/s collides with and sticks to a 5kg. lump of clay initially at rest and hanging from a string. Find the final speed of the new lump of clay. How high will the clay swing after the collision?
(initial)
m1=2kg.
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1. A person drops a ball from the top of a building; 1 second later, a second ball is thrown straight up from the bottom of the same building. The ball that is thrown upwards has just the necessary speed to just make it to the top of the building.
As the balls pass each other, they have the...
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For my lab, I need to calculate the height of the ring stands so the projectile can pass through them; as well as the angle the projectile will come at them.
I have calculated/measured the following things:
Muzzle Velocity: 4.11m/s
Vix= 4.02m/s
Viy= 0.85m/s
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The image distance is 144cm, the object distance is 36cm, and the image height is -96cm. I need to find the object's height.
hi / ho = -di / do
-96 / ho = -144 / 36
But now I am unsure of how to bring the -96 over to the other side to have the object's height isolated. Please help?
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A 10' ladderis leaning against a house when its base starts to slide away
By the time the base is 6' fromthe house, the base is moving away at a rate of 16 ft/sec
a)What is the rate of change of the height of the top of the ladder?
b)At what rate is the area of...
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A mass of 100kg is h meters high on a track that extends into a loop that has a radius of 20m. Assume track is frictionless. I need to find minimum height for the mass to make it around the loop without falling off or going backwards.
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Hi, we can determine the velocity to hit x and y point with angle of projection given. but can we do the same if the initial height of projection is given?
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The Sun is presently about 20 pc out of the midplane of the disk, and moving
away from the midplane at about 7.4 km s−1. Using these as the current position,
z(tnow), and velocity, vz(tnow), what is the maximum height zmax (in pc) the Sun
will reach before turning around...
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A ball is thrown straight upward and returns to the thrower’s hand after 1.54 s in the air. A second ball is thrown at an angle of 30.0◦ with the horizontal.
The acceleration of gravity is 9.81 m/s2 .
At what speed must the second ball be thrown so that it reaches the same...
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Amplified Rebound Height Two small rubber balls are dropped from rest at a height h above a hard floor. When the balls are released, the lighter ball (with mass m) is directly above the heavier ball (with mass M). Assume the heavier ball reaches the floor first and bounces...
I'm trying to determine change in height using my angle that I determined to be 3.11 degrees and the distance traveled by cart which is 0.797 m. I multiplied 0.797 by Sin 3.11 to find the height but I have no idea if that is right. Any help would be appreciated since we didn't go through this in...
A bouncy ball of mass 85.3 grams is dropped from a height of 13.17 meters. It rebound to a height of 5.12 meters. What was the change in momentum (in kgm/s) of the bouncy ball?
a cannon is placed on an edge of a cliff and launches shell with an initial velocity of 710m/s [35degrees above the horizontal]. the shell lands 15m below its launching position.
a) determine the max height of the shell
b) determine the horizontal range of the shell from the base of the cliff...
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A. 04 kg bead slides on a curved frictionless wire, starting from rest at point A. At point B, the bead collides elastically with a 0.6-kg ball at rest. Find the height that the ball moves up the wire.
The answer is .96 m. Homework Equations
m1v1i + m2v2i=m1v1f + m2v2f...
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Newton's model of the tidal height, using two wells dug to the center of Earth (one from the North pole, one from the equator on the side of Earth facing away from the Moon), used the fact that the pressure at the bottom of the two wells should be the same. Assume water is...
I need to calculate the maximum height above sea level of a projectile. I already have the values for the initial velocity, the angle and the time of flight, and I have the following equation to calculate the y-component of the displacement from the launch point:
sy=uyt-1/2gt²
But how do I...
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1. A ball is thrown upward. After reaching a maximum height, it continues falling back toward Earth. On the way down, the ball is caught at the same height at which it was thrown upward.
If the time (up and down) the ball remains in the air is 2.1 s, find its speed when it...
Two objects with masses 6.00 kg and 2.40 kg hang 0.500 m above the floor from the ends of a cord 5.30m mlong passing over a frictionless pulley. Both objects start from rest.
Find the maximum height reached by the 2.40kg object.
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A poorly designed playground slide begins with a straight section and ends with a circular arc as shown in the figure below.
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A child starts at point P and slides down both sections of the slide. At some point on...
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A gun can fire shells in any direction with the same speed v0. Ignoring air resistance and using cylindrical polar coordinates with the gun at the origin and z measure vertically up, show that the gun can hit any object inside the surface
z = \frac{v_{0}^{2}}{2g} -...
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Suppose there is a Conical section (of a right circular cone) of total height 'l' and radii 'a' and 'b' (a>b). How do we derive the formula for the radius at a height 'h' (h<l) ?Homework Equations
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1. A ball is thrown with a velocity of 20m/s at an angle of 30 degrees and travels 3.0s before hitting the ground. What is the maximum height of the ball?
2. I really am new to physics and have am not sure about the relevant equation. I do want to learn and don't want my work done for me...
So when thinking of a photon, we (at least I do) think of the picture, where is it shown as having literal height and width, but I know or at least I think I know, that the lines just represent the intensity/ strength of the E and M part of the wave, not the actual shape of the photon.
And it...
I apologize if this problem is more of a math- than a physics problem. At least it is applicable in real life :)
You are standing on some mountain and in your view are two other mountains, A and B. Also you can see the ocean as a referance zero point. The height of both mountains A and B are...
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Note: A bungee cord can stretch, but it is
never compressed. When the distance be-
tween the two ends of the cord is less than
its unstretched length L0, the cord folds and
its tension is zero. For simplicity, neglect the
cord’s own weight and inertia as well as the...
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A hot air balloonist forgot to calibrate his altimeter before taking off. The altimeter displays his height as A*h (A being a constant multiplcator, and h is his real height). He does not know A, nor does he know the speed of sound. How can he find his height with just two...
Problem solved! Thanks again Thaakisfox!
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A ball thrown horizontally at 2.2 m/s from the roof of a building lands 36 m from the base of the building. Calculate the height of the building.
Vox = 2.2 m/s
Xo = 0m
Vx = 0 m/s
X = 36m
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y = Vosin ao - (0.5)(g)(t^2)...
A baseball player wants to hit a home run over the far wall of a stadium. He hits the ball 1 meter above the ground so that its speed is 38.2 m/s and such that it makes an angle of 30 degrees with respect to the horizontal. What is the tallest wall the players ball can clear 120m away...
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A firefighter, 44.0 m away from a burning building, directs a stream of water from a ground level fire hose at an angle of 31.2° above the horizontal. If the speed of the stream as it leaves the hose is 40.0 m/s, at what height will the stream of water strike the building...
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A rock of mass 0.19 kg falls from rest from a height of 15 m into a pail containing 0.37 kg of water. The rock and water have the same initial temperature. The specific heat capacity of the rock is 1885 J/(kg·C°). Ignore the heat absorbed by the pail itself, and determine the...
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An alert hiker sees a boulder fall from the top of a distant cliff and notes that it takes 1.3s for the boulder to fall the last 3rd of the way to the ground. Ignore air resistance.a) what is the height of the cliff in meters? b) If in part a) you get 2 solutions what does...
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Part 1. Fleas can jump 140times their own height. They jump so they land a max distance of 20.80cm away. What is their take off speed?
I got this part right already, got 1.43m/s what I really need help with is part 2...
Part 2. What is the flea's height?
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An object of mass .5 kg is hung from the end of a steel wire 2m in length and .5mm in diameter. The mass is lifted a distance h and then dropped (creating a 'jerk') What is the largest value of h if you don't want the wire to break?
Ultimate Strength: 1.1E9 N/m^2
Young's...
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A ball is thrown vertically up from y=0 at time t=0 with vinitial=v0j. Show that the time it takes for the ball to reach the ground is twice the time it takes to reach its maximum height.
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h=(vi2sinthetai)/2g
R=(vi2sin2thetai)/g
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Express Max height in terms of g and T?!?
I need to express the y_max in terms of g and T...
do i need to put in my V_0y value? or leave it as a variable?
i've tried V_0y*T + 1/2gT^2
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A ball is thrown upward in such a way that its speed is 32.3 m/s when it is at half its maximum height. Find
(a) its maximum height,
(b) its velocity 2.0 s after it's thrown,
(c) its height 2.0 s after it's thrown, and
(d) its acceleration at its maximum height...
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Ball A is dropped from the top of a building of height h at the same time that Ball B is thrown vertically upward from the ground. When the balls collide, they are moving in opposite directions, and the speed of A is twice the speed of B. At what height does the collision...