Some forces require direct contact, while others, like gravity, act at a distance

A33.1 g copper object is launched from a 1.5 m 30° steel incline positioned on the floor by being pulled up a string attached to a 50.0 g mass suspended vertically over a pulley. the object is projected towards a glass table where it lands when it is at the point along its trajectory with the lowest speed. it comes to a halt when it clears the opposite edge of the table. it then falls and lands on 9 physics texts each 5 cm thick that are stacked on the floor on the opposite side of the table. assume that the table does not have a ledge and the rectangular object experiences 0.05 n of air resistance as it falls towards the books. how far and how long did the object travel and how fast does it hit the books. assume that at the moment the copper object leaves the incline, the massless string and ideal pulley break off

Two objects of different mass start from rest, are pulled by the same magnitude net force, and are moved through the same distance. the work done on object 1 is 900 j. after the force has pulled each object, object 1 moves twice as fast as object 2. how much work is done on object 2?

What happens to the vapor pressure of a substance when its surface area is increased at constant temperature?