The 790,000-lb jetliner a has four engines, each of which produces a nearly constant thrust of 30,000 lb during the takeoff roll. a small commuter aircraft b taxis toward the end of the runway at a constant speed vb = 19 mi/hr. determine the velocity and acceleration which a appears to have relative to an observer in b 11 seconds after a begins its takeoff roll. neglect air and rolling resistance.

The mass of a muon is 207 times the electron mass; the average lifetime of muons at rest is 2.21 μs. in a certain experiment, muons moving through a laboratory are measured to have an average lifetime of 7.04 μs. for the moving muons, what are (a) β (b) k, and (c) p? the rest energy of the electron is 0.511 mev.

Unpolarized light falls on two polarizer sheets whose transmission axes are at right angles. a third polarizer is placed between the first two so that its axis makes a 52-degree angle with the axis of the first polarizer. a) what fraction of the incident light intensity is transmitted through the first polaroid? b) what fraction of the incident light intensity is transmitted through the second polaroid? c) what is the angle of polarization of the light that enters the third polaroid? d) what fraction of the incident light intensity is transmitted through the third polaroid. e) what happens if the middle polaroid is removed?

At an oceanside nuclear power plant, seawater is used as part of the cooling system. this raises the temperature of the water that is discharged back into the ocean. the amount that the water temperature is raised has a uniform distribution over the interval from 10° to 25° c. what is the standard deviation of the temperature increase?