Cannon Definition and 194 Threads

Greetings, Before I begin my problem, I would like to confess that I understand almost nothing about physics. My math is limited to what I am doing in class right now as a ninth grader ( I understand quadratics...). I am doing a research project, and I need some help. Homework Statement...

in Ensteins theroy of gravity. when a cannon ball is fired up,it slows to a stop due to friction.at the moment it stops going upwhy does it go back towards the earth. because there is no force acting on it.there are no force particles or fields there are just paths created by masses.but these...

Homework Statement Part a.) You launch a 0.5 kg water balloon with a spring cannon in order to his someone 20m away. The spring in the cannon has a spring constant of 350 N/m. The spring cannon fires the balloon at a 30 degree angle with respect to the ground. What is the initial velocity...

Homework Statement Launch a .8 kg ball from a spring cannon in order to hit a target 25m away, the cannon fires at 45 degrees relative to the ground, what is the initial velocity necessary for the ball to make the distance. spring constant is 425 N/m. Homework Equations fspring=-kx...

Homework Statement 1.75 J is required to fire a spherical pellet of radius 8.75 mm at a maximum velocity of 100 m/s Find appropriate values for the inital pressure and volume and final pressure and volume Homework Equations Adiabatic Expansion P_{1}V_{1}^{\gamma}=P_{2}V_{2}^{\gamma}...

Homework Statement A cannon ball is fired with speed v0 at an angle phi above the horizontal. The launch point is at height h above the ground. Find the time to hit the ground, and the magnitude of the velocity when the ball hits the ground (in terms of v0, g, h, \phi) Homework Equations...

Homework Statement A football with a mass of 0.40 kg is placed into a spring loaded cannon with k = 400 N/m. The spring is compressed by 50.0 cm. a.) find the work done on the football by the spring as the football moves from the compressed position to its equilibrium position. The cannon...

a cannon located 60m from the base of a vertical 25m tall cliff, shoots a 15kg shall at 43 degrees above the horizontal toward the cliff (a) what must the minimum muzzle velocity be for the shell to clear the top of the cliff? (b) the ground at the top of the cliff is level, with a constant...

Homework Statement On level ground, what is the maximum range (in m) of a cannon with muzzle speed 322 m/s? Please take a look at this: http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af79/huybinhs/cannon2.gif Homework Equations R = (V0^2 * sin2angles)/g The Attempt at a Solution...

Homework Statement A water hose is used to fill a large cylindrical storage tank of diameter D and height 2D. The hose shoots water at 45 degrees above the horizontal from the same level as the base of the tank and is at a distance 6D away. For what range of launch speeds will the water enter...

Homework Statement A 32 kg cannon ball is fired from a cannon with muzzle speed of 1360 m/s at an angle of 44◦ with the horizontal. The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 . What is the total mechanical energy at the maximum height of the ball? Answer in units of J. Homework Equations...

Homework Statement A cannon fires a 10.0kg cannon ball 1.0m above the ground and at 20o to the horizontal with an initial speed of 100m/s. A castle 500m away has a wall 24.3m high. At what distance above the castle wall does the cannon ball pass? Homework Equations Δx = Vit + 1/2at2...

Homework Statement A 3000kg cannon fires a 14 kg shell horizontally with a muzzle velocity of 450m/s. The cannon recoils for a distance of 2.5m before coming to a stop. What is the coefficient of friction between the cannon and the ground that it rests upon? mcannon= 3000kg mball=14kg...

Homework Statement a toy cannon is placed on a ramp that has a slope of angle beta. if the cannonball is projected up the hill at an angle of theta above the horizontal and has a muzzle speed of V, show that the range R of the cannonball (as measured along the ramp) is given by...

Homework Statement A cannon of mass 5.80 x 10^3 kg is rigidly bolted to the Earth so it can recoil only by a negligible amount. The cannon fires an 85.0-kg shell horizontally with an initial velocity of +551 m/s. Suppose the cannon is then unbolted from the Earth and no external force hinders...

Okay there is an object being shot from a cannon at an angle off a cliff. You are given the distance from the bottom of the cliff, the initial velocity, and the height of the cliff. What is an equation that would use these knowns to give you the measure of the angle that the object was shot at...

Hi to all! My teacher told me to find a problem from the internet based on Cannon throwing a ball, and then to try to solve it using gnu octave. My problem is that I didnt find any problem with cannon ball Can you please tell me where to find? or give me a problem ? I don't need help...

Hi to all! My teacher told me to find a problem from the internet based on Cannon throwing a ball, and then to try to solve it using gnu octave. My problem is that I didnt find any problem with cannon. Can you please tell me where to find? Best Regards

Homework Statement So I know that a cannon weighs 2220 kg and a cannon ball weighs 19.5 kg and that when you fire the cannon at 102 m/s the speed of the cannon is .895m/s in the opposite direction. part B of the problem asks how much faster would the ball travel is the cannon was mounted...

A cannon ball is fired from an angle o with an intial velocity of v. The hill sklopes down with an angle of O. Prove that the horizontal distance the cannon ball travels is given by dx= 2v2cos(o)sin(O+o)/gcos(O) 2. Equations sin(O+o)=sin(O)cos(o)+sin(o)cos(O) d=1/2gt2 The Attempt...

1. A ball with a mass of 0.5 kg is thrown straight up with an initial speed of 20 m/s. The ball reaches a maximum height of 15 m. (a) Give the energy loss due to air resistance. (b) What height would the ball have reached without air resistance? (c) What height would the ball have reached on the...

Homework Statement Using energy conservation and assuming negligible air resistance, calculate the impact speed of a 4.00 kg cannon ball after being dropped from a height of 55.0 m. Homework Equations KE sub total=KE sub 1+KE sub 2 speed=distance/time gravity=9.8 The Attempt at...

Cannon Fire! Can anyone please help me figre this one out; A senior physics class conducting a research project on projectile motion constructs a device that can launch a cricket ball. The launching device is designed so that the ball can be launced at ground level with an initial velocity...

Anyone mind helping me strategically picking apart this word problem? I am taking physics for the first time in college and its kicking my ***, any insight on how to pick apart a problem like this and find an appropriate answer? Thank you for your time! Assume you are a Medieval knight...

1. A cannon mounted on a inclined plane launches a ball with initial speed v0 directly up the slope. The plane is inclined at angle phi above the horizontal, and the initial velocity is at angle theta above the plane. Using axes with x parallel to the plane and y normal to it, write out the x...

I am a high school physics student and am building an air cannon to study projectile motion for our end-of-year project. I am trying to figure out what air pressure I need to propel a 1 lb projectile 100 ft/s. Here's what I have so far. Let me know if I'm right or wrong. Thanks...

Homework Statement An Olympian in the long-jump goes into the jump with a speed of 11 m/s at an angle of 20 (degrees) above the horizontal. How far does the Olympian jump? Homework Equations Constant Acceleration Equations V=Vo + at The Attempt at a Solution I tried to set up a...

"elephant toothpaste experiment" cannon? I saw a video of an experiment called "elephant toothpaste" on youtube, where a guy put hydrogen peroxide and potassium iodine in a graduated cylinder, and it all foamed up, and went out of the graduated cylinder. If you put the chemicals in a pipe with...

I am currently working on constructing a Gauss Cannon using the simple method of some chrome balls with a neodymium magnet on a track arranged thus: 0_____||0000____ so when the ball (0) on the left is released it is attracted by the two magnets (|) and smashed into them, and with the same...

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3747/cannonlr0.gif A circus cannon, which has a mass M = 5000 kg, is tilted at θ = 50°. When it shoots a projectile at v0 = 40 m/s with respect to the cannon, the cannon recoils along a horizontal track at vcannon = 0.5 m/s with respect to the ground...

I've been struggling with this problem for over two hours...PLEASE HELP! Homework Statement A huge cannon is assembled on an airless planet. The planet has a radius of 5.0 \times 10^{6}\;{\rm m} and a mass of 2.6 \times 10^{24}\;{\rm kg}. The cannon fires a projectile straight up at 3800...

Hello everyone, I have a physics question for you all. A cannon fired from a truck at 5m/s. A cannon is fired in the same direction as the cannon. The velocity of the projectile is 50m/s. What angle will provide the greatest (distance in the x-driection) range for the projectile. I have...

Pressure in an air cannon-- ODE Homework Statement Okay, I'm designing an air cannon, and need to calculate the muzzle velocity. The only propelling force is the one caused by the pressure of the compressed air. Homework Equations I've been working with Boyle's law: P_0 V_0 = P_1 V_1...

Homework Statement A cannon located 60m from the base of a vertical 25 m cliff shoots a shell at 43 degrees above the horizontal. What is the minimum muzzle velocity be for the shell to clear the top of the cliff ? The ground at the top of the cliff is level, with constant elevation of 25 m...

Okay another projectile motion question. I'm a bit confused by how to work this out. --- A cannon will a muzzle speed of 1000m/s is used to start an avalanche on a mountain slope. The target is 2000m from the cannon horizontally and 800m above the cannon. At what angle, above the horizontal...

Im new to the forum, so.. hello everyone! I have a quick question on projectile motion that i can't seem to get... A cannon 60m from the base of a 25m high cliff shoots a 15kg projectile at 43 degrees above the horizon... (a)- what is the minimum muzzle velocity for the shell to...

[SOLVED] Projectile Motion Homework Statement A cannon shoots a ball at an angle theta above the ground. Use Newton's second law to find the ball's position as a function of time g(t). What is the largest value of theta if g(t) is to increase throughout the ball's flight. Homework Equations...

Homework Statement A projectile is shot from the surface of te Earth by means of a very powerful cannon. If the projectile reaches a height of 35,000 m above Earth's surface, what was the speed of the projectile when it left the cannon? a. 355 m/s b. 827 m/s c. 710 m/s d. 906 m/s...

Homework Statement A cannon is fired(from pt. A) at an angle of 38deg and with a Vo of 1000 ft/sec. A car leaves (from pt. C) at 30 mph heading towards the cannon. The cannon hits the truck at point B. a. Determine the horizontal distance R that the cannonball travels to hit the car. b. How...

I have a cannon that fires blocks of plaster of paris what are the basic formulaes that i need in order to be able to calculate the angle in order to shoot a projectile a specified distance. I want to take as many variables into account such as air density and so forth (please give values) so...

A connon, located 60 m from the base of a vertical 25.0m tall clift, shoots a 15 kg shell at 43.0 degrees above the horizontal toward the cliff. A) what must the minimum muzzle velocity be for the shell to clear the top of the cliff? B) The ground at the top of the cliff is level, with a...

I thought this was a fun game. http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/games/cannon/cannon.html"

[SOLVED] Projectile Motion Homework Statement You are shooting a cannon from a height of 11.23m off the ground. The target is 20.36m away. The angle of projection is 30 degrees. What does the initial speed need to be in order to hit the target? Homework Equations When I look at this...

Homework Statement A cannon is rigidly attached to a carriage which can move along horizontal rails but is connected to a post by a large spring, initially unstretched and with a force constant k= 2.00 x 10^4 N/m, as shown in figure below. The cannon fires a 200kg projectile at a velocity of...

Aiight, so I pose this question: does the length of a cannon change the distance the projectile is able to go? Essentially, say we have a cannon eight feet long, and a cannon twelve feet long; the projectiles in both have the same mass and, thus, the same gravitational pull. Why, then, would...

Homework Statement two problems. i am confused about their processes. they are almost the same but some things look strange. problem 1: A cannon on a level plain is aimed 50deg above the horizontal and a shell is fired with a muzzle velocity of 360m/s toward a vertical cliff 950 m away...

I have built a pneumatic tennis ball lancher (with compressed air). I need to develop theory (i.e. equations and formula) to determine the velocity as the ball leaves the barrel. I have the projectile motion after the ball leaves the barrel down pretty well. I'm having issues acounting for...

Is it possible to build an ion cannon(it's a super weapon that orbits around the Earth in space) with the technology we currently have or will have within the next 5-10 yrs?

I've been assigned a relatively funky physics project, and the process of writing the algorithm for said project has completely stumped me. I have chosen to research the Oerlikon 20 mm auto-cannon, and have done all of my research and am at the point where I am supposed to write an...

What's the best way to build a cannon to shoot an object the size of a ping pong ball when I have these limited materials. I'm really stuck on the best way to make it. Also, it has to have a trigger that is set off by one finger only, and it can't be that you just pull a rubber band back and...