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If a car is travelling over a curved hill, what is the maximum speed it can travel before losing contact with the road surface?

This is a question about circular motion that also includes some knowledge of Newton's laws. The car is travelling over a curved surface, which you can imagine as part of the circumference of a circle. In or...
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What is the maximum height a pole vaulter could reach?

Whilst at first this question looks difficult, once broken down it becomes quite easy. It is a simple case of energy exchange. The pole vaulter gives themselve kinetic energy as they aproach the bar, and tur...
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A rocket travels at 500m/s two minutes after its take-off. If it was initially stationary, calculate its acceleration. If the rocket has a mass of 1800kg, what force is required to give it an acceleration of 2m/s^2?

a) Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity of an object In this case, the equation that we will use to calculate it is a = (v - u )/ t where v is the rocket's final speed, u is its initial speed, and ...
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Why do lasers produce an intense coherent beam of light?

Lasers produce an intense coherent beam of light because the waves have the same frequency, are in phase with each other and have a low divergence.
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Derive the formula for the maximum kinetic energy of an electron emitted from a metal with work function energy p , that is illuminated by light of frequency f.

The phenomenon this question relates to is the photoelectric effect, and it can only be explained using Einstein’s photon model of light. Electromagnetic waves are emitted in discrete lumps of energy, called...
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