If you pick up your backpack, put on, then walk to you next class, take it off and put it on the floor, explain when work is being done on the backpack and what type of energy is involved.

Amass weighing 24 pounds, attached to the end of a spring, stretches it 4 inches. initially, the mass is released from rest from a point 8 inches below the equilibrium position. find the equation of motion. (use g = 32 ft/s2 for the acceleration due to gravity.)

Simon is writing a story about an astronaut whose spacecraft has been boarded by space pirates. the astronaut has her lucky penny in her hand behind her back as the space pirates break into the control room. she has just locked the controls so that the ship is accelerating in the direction of the control room’s ceiling. simon wants the astronaut to use the penny to hit a button on the control panel to turn off the lights and escape. the button is located a short distance behind and below the astronaut’s hands. how should simon use the theory of relativity to describe what the astronaut must do in order to hit the button?

Water flows through a garden hose which is attached to a nozzle. the water flows through hose with a speed of 2.19 m/s and through the nozzle with a speed of 19.8 m/s. calculate the maximum height (in m) to which water could be squirted if it emerges from the nozzle and emerges with the nozzle removed.