Computer Intensive Physics 211

InfoMall Homework #12 -Printed only (10 points)

Spring, 1998

Due 2/24/98

IFHW12:

Using the InfoMall

1. (3 pts) Find more than one statement of the Law of the Conservation of Energy.
Explain as precisely as you can the conditions under which is law is valid.
How can you decide when observing a real event whether this law can be
used to analyze the event or not? Give the citations from the InfoMall that
you use to answer these questions.

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3. (3 pts)(a) List the concepts you used to solve problem 2.
(b) Find a problem on the InfoMallthat requires the same concepts for its solution.
Print it and give the citation for it.
(c) Work out the solution to the problem you found on the InfoMall