Recent questions in Physics of Everyday Life

+322 votes

0 answers

If a 60kg man standing on a stationary 40kg boat throws a 0.2kg baseball with a velocity of 50m/s, with what speed does the boat move after the man throws the ball?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by suzukisj32

+20 votes

0 answers

The arrow is fired horizontally 49.2 meters per second from a 29.4 meter high costal. What is its velocity when it hits the ground?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by LuminousMystic

+268 votes

0 answers

Why is it easier to spin a boomerang around your hand vertically than to throw it straight forward?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by gswainyboy

+50 votes

0 answers

Should the heavier passenger of a waterslide be in the front of the raft or in the back if they were riding with a lighter weight person?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by Water Systems

+64 votes

0 answers

Who first detected radio waves coming from space?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by swede (3.1k points)

+17 votes

0 answers

What happens if you leave a light bulb on too long?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by Nathan Y

+78 votes

0 answers

What is the first dimension?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by Ding

+8 votes

0 answers

What is the maximum height of the ball if it's thrown vertically at 2m/s, and the gravity causes the ball to decelerate at 10m/s^2?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by devils advocate

+33 votes

0 answers

A bus covers a distance in 3 hours at a speed of 60km per hour. How much time will it take to cover the same distance at a speed of 80 km per hour?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by EMSman

+1 vote

0 answers

A billiard ball with velocity v= (2.5m/s) I strikes a stationary ball of the same mass. After the collision the first billiard ball has velocity v1= (0.5i-1j). What is the velocity of the second ball? Is the cIllusion elastic?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by PawelM

+56 votes

0 answers

A car was moving at a speed of 18km/h. When brakes are applied, if it comes to rest after having travelled a distance of 5m, how would one calculate the retardation produced in the car?

asked Jan 10, 2023 in Physics of Everyday Life by Sammyjim5

+58 votes

0 answers

Is gravity pulling us down or is it pulling us towards the center of earth?

asked Nov 20, 2022 in Physics of Everyday Life by JMV

+11 votes

0 answers

A vehicle is accelerating uniformly at 1.8ms -2 from speed of 30km/h. What’s the time required to attain a speed of 90 km/h?

asked Nov 20, 2022 in Physics of Everyday Life by MalcyB

+8 votes

0 answers

Theoretically, by Einstein's equation (E=mc^2), is it possible that mass (small or large) can be completely turned into energy?

asked Nov 20, 2022 in Physics of Everyday Life by nk

+25 votes

0 answers

A man is pulling a trolley on a horizontal road with a force of 100 N making 45 degrees with the road. What are the horizontal and vertical components?

asked Nov 20, 2022 in Physics of Everyday Life by MalcyB

+123 votes

0 answers

A bus travels 20 km south, then 10 km East, and lastly 5 km north. What is the resultant displacement of the bus?

asked Nov 20, 2022 in Physics of Everyday Life by ancilenet (3.4k points)

+15 votes

0 answers

How far does lightning travel in water?

asked Nov 19, 2022 in Physics of Everyday Life by menspurse

+16 votes

0 answers

Hypothetically, how much energy would an object travelling at 99.9999997% the speed of light release on impact?

asked Nov 19, 2022 in Physics of Everyday Life by Big Bad Adam from Sc

+3 votes

0 answers

What is a parallel dimension, also known as an alternate dimension, and could there be such a thing?

asked Nov 19, 2022 in Physics of Everyday Life by SolarisTwilight (2.2k points)

0 votes

0 answers

Why do feathers and hammers fall at the same rate when dropped from the top of a building? Why don't they just float to the ground?

asked Nov 19, 2022 in Physics of Everyday Life by DKM

Page:

« prev
1
...
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
...
48
next »

Recent questions in Physics of Everyday Life

...