Three infinite horizontal rails are at distance l from each other. Three beads of equal masses m can slide along the rails without friction. The three beads are connected by identical springs of constants k and equilibrium/unstretched length l/2. 1. Find the normal modes and the normal frequencies. 2. At time t = 0 one of the masses is suddenly given a velocity v0. Find how the velocities of all three masses will depend on time. Find how the sum of the three velocities depends on time. Why?

Rosa records the distance that a toy car rolls and the time it takes to cover the distance. what scientific practice is this? collecting data asking a question providing explanations communicating results

Alivestock company reports that the mean weight of a group of young steers is 1100 pounds with a standard deviation of 93 pounds. based on the model n(1100,93) for the weights of steers, what percent of steers weigh a) over 1050 pounds? b) under 1300 pounds? c) between 1150 and 1250 pounds?

Aheat engine running backward is called a refrigerator if its purpose is to extract heat from a cold reservoir. the same engine running backward is called a heat pump if its purpose is to exhaust warm air into the hot reservoir. heat pumps are widely used for home heating. you can think of a heat pump as a refrigerator that is cooling the already cold outdoors and, with its exhaust heat qh, warming the indoors. perhaps this seems a little silly, but consider the following. electricity can be directly used to heat a home by passing an electric current through a heating coil. this is a direct, 100% conversion of work to heat. that is, 19.0 \rm kw of electric power (generated by doing work at the rate 19.0 kj/s at the power plant) produces heat energy inside the home at a rate of 19.0 kj/s. suppose that the neighbor's home has a heat pump with a coefficient of performance of 4.00, a realistic value. note: with a refrigerator, "what you get" is heat removed. but with a heat pump, "what you get" is heat delivered. so the coefficient of performance of a heat pump is k=qh/win. an average price for electricity is about 40 mj per dollar. a furnace or heat pump will run typically 200 hours per month during the winter. what does one month's heating cost in the home with a 16.0 kw electric heater? what does one month's heating cost in the home of a neighbor who uses a heat pump to provide the same amount of heating?