FINAL EXAM, PHYSICS 5306, Fall, 2002 Dr. Charles W.

Myles Take Home Final Exam: Distributed, Wednesday, December 4 DUE, IN MY OFFICE OR MAILBOX, 5PM, TUES., DEC. 10 NO EXCEPTIONS! TAKE HOME EXAM RULE: You are allowed to use almost any resources (books from the library, etc.) to solve these problems. THE EXCEPTION is that you MAY NOT COLLABORATE WITH ANY OTHER PERSON in solving them! If you have questions or difficulties with these problems, you may consult with me, but not with fellow students (whether or not they are in this class!) or with other faculty. You are bound by the TTU Code of Student Conduct not to violate this rule! Anyone caught violating this rule will, at a minimum , receive an F on this exam! INSTRUCTIONS: Please read all of these before doing anything else!!! Failure to follow these may lower your grade!! 1. PLEASE write on one side of the paper only!! This may waste paper, but it makes my grading easier! 2. PLEASE do not write on the exam sheets, there will not be room! Use other paper!! 3. PLEASE show all of your work, writing down at least the essential steps in the solution of a problem.
Partial credit will be liberal, provided that the essential work is shown. Organized work, in a logical, easy to follow order will receive more credit than disorganized work. 4. PLEASE put the problems in order and the pages in order within a problem before turning in this exam! 5. PLEASE clearly mark your final answers and write neatly. If I cannot read or find your answer, you can't expect me to give it the credit it deserves and you are apt to lose credit. 6. NOTE!!! the setup (THE PHYSICS) of a problem will count more heavily in the grading than the detailed mathematics of working it out.

PLEASE FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE DIRECTIONS!!!! THANK YOU!!! NOTE! WORK ANY 5 OF THE 6 PROBLEMS! Each problem is equally weighted and worth 20 points for a total of 100 points on this exam. Note! The problems from Goldstein are from the 3rd Edition! If you have the 2nd Edition, the problem numbering MIGHT be different!

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1. Work Problem 20 of Chapter 5 in the book by Goldstein (3rd Edition!). Go as far as you can towards obtaining a solution to the equations of motion. 2. Work Problem 13 of Chapter 6 in the book by Goldstein (3rd Edition!). Go as far as you can towards obtaining the eigenfrequencies and the normal mode eigenvalues for small oscillations. 3. a. Work Problem 7 of Chapter 7 in the book by Goldstein (3rd Edition!). b. Work Problem 8 of Chapter 7 in the book by Goldstein (3rd Edition!).

NOTE! WORK ANY 5 (FIVE) OUT OF THE 6 PROBLEMS! 4. See the figures. A homogeneous cube, each edge of which has a length , is initially in a position of unstable equilibrium with one edge in contact with a horizontal plane. The cube is then given a small displacement and allowed to fall. Find the angular velocity of the cube at the instant it strikes the plane if: a. The edge cannot slide on the plane. See figure

b.

Sliding without friction can occur on the plane. See figure

Hint: in both cases will only depend on g, and geometric factors. The best way to solve this is to use conservation of energy. You will need to know (or to calculate) the moment of inertia of a cube about an axis perpendicular to one face and passing through that face center. 5. See the figure. The large mass, M, is constrained to move on a smooth, horizontal frictionless track. A small mass, m, is connected to M by a massless, inextensible string of length . a. Set up the Lagrangian and derive Lagranges Equations of motion. b. Under the assumption of small oscillations, set up and solve the secular equation for the normal mode eigenfrequencies and eigenvalues. 6. A particle of mass M and 4-momentum P decays into two particles of masses m1 and m2. a. Use conservation of 4-momentum in the form P = p1 + p2 (where p1 and p2 are the 4 momenta of m1 and m2, respectively) to show that the total energy of m1 in the rest frame of the decaying particle is given by: (E1/c2) = [M2 + (m1)2 (m2)2]/(2M) and that E2 is obtained from this expression by interchanging m1 and m2. b. Show that the kinetic energy of the ith (i=1,2) particle in the same frame is Ti = M[1 (mi/M) - ( M/M)], where M = M - m1 m2 is the mass excess or Q value of the process. c. The charged pi-meson (Mc2 = 139.6 MeV) decays into a mu-meson (m1c2 = 105.7 MeV) and a neutrino (m2 0). Calculate (PUT IN NUMBERS!!) the kinetic energies of the mu-meson and the neutrino in the pi-mesons rest frame.