- Exercise 9:
Billy, a mountain goat, is rock climbing on his favorite slope one sunny spring
morning when a rock comes hurtling toward him from a ledge 40.0 m above.
Billy ducks and avoids injury. a) How fast is the rock traveling when it passes
Billy? b) How does this speed compare to that of a car traveling down the
highway at the speed limit of 25 m/s (equivalent to 55 mi/h)?

The independent variable in this experiment is the angle at which the light from the ray box strikes the mirror.hope this .

The boat's velocity relative to the riverbank can be resolved into two components. the component going north is 2.7 m/s and the component going west is 1.2 m/s.we add these two vectors and then find the magnitude of the resultant to get the speed.the magnitude of the resultant vector from adding can be obtained by the pythagorean theorem.    to two significant figures, the boat's speed relative to the riverbank is 3.0 m/s.