A 1,300kg car moving at 20m/s and a 900kg car moving at 15m/s in precisely opposite directions participate in a head- on crash. If we consider this event to be a perfectly inelastic collision, what is the speed and direction of the cars after
the impact?

Aspecimen of oil having an initial volume of 580cm^3 is subjected to a pressure increase of 4.0 mpa, and the volume is found to decrease by 0.40 cm^3. (a) what is the bulk modulus of the material? (b) what is the compressibility of the material?

Alinearly polarized electromagnetic wave has an average intensity of 196 w/m^2. this wave is directed towards two ideal polarizers (in real polarizers, transmission is also effected by reflection and absorption). polarizer a is oriented with its transmission axis at an angle of θ_1=20.8∘ with the incident electric field. polarizer b has its axis at an angle of θ_2=63.0∘ with the incident electric field. what is the average intensity of the wave after it passes through polarizer a? what is the average intensity of the wave after it passes through polarizer b? suppose that the two polarizers a and b are interchanged. what would the average intensity be after passing through both polarizers?

On a day when the barometer reads 75.23 cm, a reaction vessel holds 250 ml of ideal gas at 20 celsius. an oil manometer ( ρ= 810 kg/m^3) reads the pressure in the vessel to be 41 cm of oil and below atmospheric pressure. what volume will the gas occupy under s.t.p.?