Chapter 8: Q5P (page 394)
Find the position x of a particle at time t if its acceleration is.
Short Answer
Answer
The position x of a particle at time t is when acceleration is .
Chapter 8: Q5P (page 394)
Find the position x of a particle at time t if its acceleration is.
Answer
The position x of a particle at time t is when acceleration is .
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Get started for freeFind the shape of a mirror which has the property that rays from a point 0 on the axis are reflected into a parallel beam. Hint: Take the point 0 at the origin. Show from the figure that . Use the formula for to express this in terms of and solve the resulting differential equation. (Hint: See Problem 16.)
Find the orthogonal trajectories of each of the following families of curves. In each case, sketch or computer plot several of the given curves and several of their orthogonal trajectories. Be careful to eliminate the constant from for the original curves; this constant takes different values for different curves of the original family, and you want an expression for which is valid for all curves of the family crossed by the orthogonal trajectory you are trying to find. See equations to
. (Assume that n is a given number; the different curves of the family have different values of k.)
Use the convolution integral to find the inverse transforms of:
Use L28 and L4 to find the inverse transform of.
(a)Consider a light beam travelling downward into the ocean. As the beam progresses, it is partially absorbed and its intensity decreases. The rate at which the intensity is decreasing with depth at any point is proportional to the intensity at that depth. The proportionality constant is called the linear absorption coefficient. Show that if the intensity at the surface is , the intensity at a distance s below the surface is . The linear absorption coefficient for water is of the order of (the exact value depending on the wavelength of the light and the impurities in the water). For this value of μ, find the intensity as a fraction of the surface intensity at a depth of 1 ft, ft,
ft,
mile. When the intensity of a light beam has been reduced to half its surface intensity , the distance the light has penetrated into the absorbing substance is called the half-value thickness of the substance. Find the half-value thickness in terms of . Find the half-value thickness for water for the value of given above.
(b) Note that the differential equation and its solution in this problem are mathematically the same as those in Example 1, although the physical problem and the terminology are different. In discussing radioactive decay, we call the decay constant, and we define the half-life T of a radioactive substance as the time when (compare half-value thickness). Find the relation between and T.
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