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Q. A man is standing 40 meters away from a building. If the angle of elevation to the top of the building is 30 degrees, what is the height of the building?
Q. A man is standing 50 meters away from a vertical pole. If he looks up at an angle of elevation of 60 degrees to the top of the pole, what is the height of the pole?
Q. A man is standing on a hill 200 meters high. If he looks down at an angle of depression of 30 degrees, how far is he from the base of the hill?
Q. A man is standing on a hill 80 meters high. If he looks at a point on the ground at an angle of depression of 45 degrees, how far is the point from the base of the hill?
Q. A man is standing on a hill that is 80 m high. If he looks down at an angle of depression of 30 degrees, how far is he from the base of the hill?
Q. A man is standing on the ground and looking at the top of a 15 m high pole. If he is 20 m away from the base of the pole, what is the angle of elevation?
Q. A man is standing on the ground and looking at the top of a 40 m high building. If the angle of elevation is 60 degrees, how far is he from the building?
Q. A man is standing on the ground and looking at the top of a building. If the angle of elevation is 45 degrees and he is 10 meters away from the building, what is the height of the building?
Q. A man is standing on the ground and looking at the top of a tree. If the angle of elevation is 60 degrees and he is 10 meters away from the base of the tree, what is the height of the tree?
Q. A man is standing on the ground and observes the top of a building at an angle of elevation of 60 degrees. If he is 50 m away from the building, what is the height of the building?
Q. A man is standing on the ground and observes the top of a tree at an angle of elevation of 45 degrees. If he is 10 meters away from the tree, what is the height of the tree?
Q. A mass 'm' is lifted to a height 'h' above the Earth's surface. What is the change in gravitational potential energy?
Q. A mass attached to a spring oscillates with a damping coefficient of 0.3 kg/s. If the mass is 1 kg and the spring constant is 4 N/m, what is the damping ratio?
Q. A mass attached to a spring oscillates with a frequency of 1 Hz. If the mass is increased, what happens to the frequency?
Q. A mass attached to a spring oscillates with a frequency of 2 Hz. What is the spring constant if the mass is 0.5 kg?
Q. A mass attached to a spring oscillates with a frequency of 3 Hz. What is the angular frequency of the motion?
Q. A mass attached to a spring oscillates with a frequency of 3 Hz. What is the angular frequency?
Q. A mass attached to a spring oscillates with a frequency of 5 Hz. What is the time period of the oscillation?
Q. A mass attached to a spring oscillates with a maximum speed of 4 m/s. If the spring constant is 100 N/m, what is the maximum displacement?
Q. A mass attached to a spring oscillates with a period of 2 seconds. What is the angular frequency of the motion?
Q. A mass attached to a spring oscillates with a period of 2 seconds. What is the frequency of the oscillation?
Q. A mass is measured as 15.0 kg with an uncertainty of ±0.3 kg. If this mass is used to calculate the force (F = ma) with an acceleration of 9.8 m/s², what is the uncertainty in the force?
Q. A mass is measured as 5.0 kg with an uncertainty of ±0.1 kg. If this mass is used to calculate weight (W = mg), what is the uncertainty in weight if g = 9.8 m/s²?
Q. A mass m is attached to a spring of spring constant k. If the mass is displaced by a distance x from its equilibrium position, what is the restoring force acting on the mass?
Q. A mass m is attached to a spring of spring constant k. If the mass is displaced from its equilibrium position and released, what is the time period of the oscillation?
Q. A mass m is attached to a spring of spring constant k. What is the angular frequency of the simple harmonic motion?
Q. A mass m is attached to a string and is whirled in a horizontal circle. If the radius of the circle is halved, what happens to the tension in the string if the speed remains constant?
Q. A mass m is attached to a string and is whirled in a vertical circle. At the highest point of the circle, what is the minimum speed required to keep the mass in circular motion?
Q. A mass m is attached to a string and is whirled in a vertical circle. At the highest point of the circle, the tension in the string is T. What is the expression for T?
Q. A mass m is attached to a string and is whirled in a vertical circle. At the highest point of the circle, what is the condition for the mass to just complete the circular motion?