Aheavy ball is hung from the ceiling by a steel wire. the instructor pulls the ball back and stands against the wall with the ball against his chin. to avoid injury the instructor is supposed to release the ball without pushing it (fig. 6–33). why?

A1200 kg car traveling north at 10 m/s is rear-ended by a 2000 kg truck traveling at 30 m/s. what is the total momentum before and after the collision?

An engineer designs a roller coaster so that a car travels horizontally for 152 ft, then climbs 137 ft at an angle of 34.0° above the horizontal. it then moves 137 ft at an angle of 48.0° below the horizontal. if we take the initial horizontal motion of the car to be along the +x-axis, what is the car's displacement? (give the magnitude of your answer, in ft, to at least four significant figures and give the direction of your answer in degrees counterclockwise from the +x-axis.)

What is the mass of the same rock on the earth