You are driving a metric car that has a speedometer that displays in meters per second. When you look down at your speedometer, you see that it reads 23 m/s, then 7.4 s later you look down and it reads 13 m/s. What is your average acceleration over those 7.4 s?

Follow these directions and answer the questions. 1. set up the ripple tank as in previous investigations. 2. bend the rubber tube to form a "concave mirror" and place in the ripple tank. the water level must be below the top of the hose. 3. generate a few straight pulses with the dowel and observe the reflected waves. do the waves focus (come together) upon reflection? can you locate the place where the waves meet? 4. touch the water surface where the waves converged. what happens to the reflected wave? 5. move your finger twice that distance from the hose (2f = c of c, center of the curvature) and touch the water again. does the image (the reflected wave) appear in the same location (c of c)? you may have to experiment before you find the exact location. sometimes it is hard to visualize with the ripple tank because the waves move so quickly. likewise, it is impossible to "see" light waves because they have such small wavelengths and move at the speed of light. however, both are examples of transverse waves and behave in the same way when a parallel wave fronts hit a curved surface.

The speed of light in a material is 0.50 c. what is the critical angle of a light ray at the interface between the material and a vacuum?

One object has a mass of 1 kg and another object has a mass of 3 kg. if the speeds are the same, which of the following is true about their kinetic energy?