You wish to use a strain gauge measurement system to monitor the stress on an aluminum rod. The rod is fixed to a solid surface on one end, and the other is supported in a frictionless bearing. A rectangular aluminum lever arm is attached to one side of the cylinder and a force is directed normally into the lever. You wish to measure the strain on the rod due to the applied torque. Which gauge combination would you choose to implement.

Consider a system to be two train cars traveling toward each other. what is the total momentum of the system before the train cars collide?   kg • what must the total momentum of the system be after the train cars collide?   kg •  

An alpha particle with kinetic energy 12.5 mev makes a collision with lead nucleus, but it is not "aimed" at the center of the lead nucleus, and has an initial nonzero angular momentum (with respect to the stationary lead nucleus) of magnitude l = p0 b, where p0 is the magnitude of the initial momentum of the alpha particle and b=1.40×10−12 m. (assume that the lead nucleus remains stationary and that it may be treated as a point charge. the atomic number of lead is 82. the alpha particle is a helium nucleus, with atomic number 2.) what is the distance of closest approach?

Estimate the kinetic energy of the neptune with respect to the sun as the sum of the terms, that due to its daily rotation about its axis, and that due to its yearly revolution about the sun. [assume the neptune is a uniform sphere with mass = 1.0×1026 kg , radius = 2.5×1010 m , rotation period 16.1 h , orbital period 6.01×104 d and is 4.6×109 km from the sun.]