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Spring 2008 Phys 5A 3/31 Lecture 2.5 50 minutes
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"When a book and a head collide and there is a
hollow sound, is it always from the book?"
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
TODAY (*.pdf)
Clicker homework
Pick up your Midterm 1; scores posted online
Discussion of selected questions at waiferx.blogspot.com
In-progress grades (up until Midterm 1) posted online
Ch. 7.4: Conservation of Momentum (*.pdf)
Ex: Problem 7.18
Shooting recoil movie
(military.com)
Ch. 7.7: Collisions in One Dimension
Ex: Perfectly inelastic airtrack collision
(Deer Valley High School Science Department)
Ex: Elastic(?) people collision
(YouTube.com)
Air track applet
("e" = 1 for elastic collisions)
("e" = 0 for perfectly inelastic collisions)
NEXT TIME
Homework
Problems 7.42
7.39 (for practice only)
7.47 (for practice only)
7.49 (for practice only)
7.52
**Review elastic/inelastic/perfectly inelastic definitions, p. 240**
Problem-solving session (2.0 points)
Problem 6.80 (hint: total speed includes v_x and v_y components)
(attempt before, work on during, and submit at end of next class)