A tire-pressure monitoring system warns you with a dashboard alert when one of your car tires is significantly underinflated, possibly creating unsafe driving conditions. How does the car know when to turn on the alert? Many cars have sensors that measure the period of rotation of each wheel. Based on the period, the car's computer determines the relative size of the tires when the car is moving at a certain speed.

Copper has free electrons per cubic meter. a 71.0-cm length of 12-gauge copper wire that is 2.05 mm in diameter carries 4.85 a of current. (a) how much time does it take for an electron to travel the length of the wire? (b) repeat part (a) for 6-gauge copper wire (diameter 4.12 mm) of the same length that carries the same current. (c) generally speaking, how does changing the diameter of a wire that carries a given amount of current affect the drift velocity of the electrons in the wire?

Ahorizontal wire is tied to supports at each end and vibrates in its second-overtone standing wave. the tension in the wire is 5.00 n, and the node-to-node distance in the standing wave is 6.28 cm. (a) what is the length of the wire? (b) a point at an anti- node of the standing wave on the wire travels from its maximum upward displacement to its maximum downward displacement in 8.40 ms. what is the wire's mass?

Asynthetic fiber used in manufacturing carpet has tensile strength that is normally distributed with mean 75.5 psi and standard deviation 3.5 psi. how is the standard deviation of the sample mean changed when the sample size is increased from n equals 8 to n equals 47