Physics: Woodpecker problem to find acceleration and depth…help?!?!?!?

Posted by admin on June 18th, 2010 filed in Garden Bird Control

The speed of the head of a redheaded woodpecker reaches 3 m/s before impact with the tree. The mass of the head is 0.060 kg and the average force on the head during impact is 6.4 N.

(a) Find the acceleration of the head (assuming constant acceleration).
______ km/s2

(b) Find the depth of penetration into the tree.
______ cm


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