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Hint A.2
Part B What is the tension Hint B.1 in the string between block A and block B?
Correct
Hint A.2
Find the extreme points on the circular path Hint not displayed
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Hint A.4
magnitude
Part A Find the magnitude of the minimum force Hint A.1 that allows the window washer to move upward.
Hint A.2
Hint A.3
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Skydiving
A sky diver of mass 80.0 (including parachute) jumps off a plane and begins her descent. for the magnitude of the acceleration due to gravity. Throughout this problem use 9.80 Part A At the beginning of her fall, does the sky diver have an acceleration? Hint A.1
No; the sky diver falls at constant speed. Yes and her acceleration is directed upward. Yes and her acceleration is directed downward. Correct
This applet shows the sky diver (not to scale) with her position, speed, and acceleration graphed as functions of time. You can see how her acceleration drops to zero over time, giving constant speed after a long time. Part B At some point during her free fall, the sky diver reaches her terminal speed. What is the magnitude of the drag force due to air resistance that acts on the sky diver when she has reached terminal speed? Hint B.1
Part C For an object falling through air at a high speed , the drag force acting on it due to air resistance can be expressed as , where the coefficient depends on the shape and size of the falling object and on the density of air. is about 0.250 .
For a human body, the numerical value for Using this value for Hint C.1
Recreational sky divers can control their terminal speed to some extent by changing their body posture. When oriented in a headfirst dive, a sky diver can reach speeds of about 54 meters per second (120 miles per hour). For maximum drag and stability, sky divers often will orient themselves "belly-first." In this position, their terminal speed is typically around 45 meters per second (100 miles per hour).
Part D When the sky diver descends to a certain height from the ground, she deploys her parachute to ensure a safe landing. (Usually the parachute is deployed when the sky diver reaches an altitude of about 900 --3000 .) Immediately after deploying the parachute, does the skydiver have a nonzero acceleration? Hint D.1
ANSWER:
No; the sky diver keeps falling at constant speed. Yes and her acceleration is directed downward. Yes and her acceleration is directed upward. Correct
Part E When the parachute is fully open, the effective drag coefficient of the sky diver plus parachute increases to 60.0 . What is the drag force acting on the sky diver immediately after she has opened the parachute? Hint E.1
Hint E.2
Find the speed of the sky diver when the parachute is deployed Hint not displayed
Part F What is the terminal speed Hint F.1 of the sky diver when the parachute is opened?
A typical "student" parachute for recreational skydiving has a drag coefficient that gives a terminal speed for landing of about 2 meters per second (5 miles per hour). If this seems slow based on video or real-life sky divers you have seen, that may be because the sky divers you saw were using high-performance parachutes; these offer the sky divers more maneuverability in the air but
using high-performance parachutes; these offer the sky divers more maneuverability in the air but increase the terminal speed up to 4 meters per second (10 miles per hour).
Part A Find the magnitude, Hint A.1 , of the sum of all forces acting on the block.
Hint A.2
Hint A.3
Find the magnitude of the force acting along the direction of motion Hint not displayed
Express
ANSWER:
in terms of
and
Correct
Part B Find the magnitude, Hint B.1 , of the force that the wall exerts on the wedge.
The force between the wall and the wedge Hint not displayed
Hint B.2
Find the normal force between the block and the wedge
Find the horizontal component of the normal force Hint not displayed
Express
ANSWER:
in terms of
and
Correct
Your answer to Part B could be expressed as either form, we see that as gets very small or as or . In either radians), the contact
approaches 90 degrees (
force between the wall and the wedge goes to zero. This is what we should expect; in the first limit ( small), the block is accelerating very slowly, and all horizontal forces are small. In the second limit ( on the wedge. about 90 degrees), the block simply falls vertically and exerts no horizontal force
Hint A.2
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Mass on Turntable
Mass on Turntable
A small metal cylinder rests on a circular turntable that is rotating at a constant speed as illustrated in the diagram . The small metal cylinder has a mass of 0.20 , the coefficient of static friction between the cylinder and the turntable is 0.080, and the cylinder is located 0.15 from the center of the turntable. Take the magnitude of the acceleration due to gravity to be 9.81 .
Part A What is the maximum speed off the turntable? Hint A.1 that the cylinder can move along its circular path without slipping
Hint A.2
Hint A.3
Hint A.4
Express your answer numerically in meters per second to two significant figures.
ANSWER: = 0.34 Correct
frictionless table. The string is firmly anchored to a wall and the whole system is frictionless. Use the coordinate system indicated in the figure when solving this problem.
Part A Assuming that is the magnitude of the horizontal acceleration of the block of mass , what is ,
Hint A.2
and
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Part B Given of mass Hint B.1 , the tension in the string, calculate . , the magnitude of the vertical acceleration of the block
Hint B.2
in terms of
, and
Correct
Part C
, find
Hint C.2
Express
ANSWER:
in terms of
Correct
Part D Using the result of Part C in the formula for as a function of . that you previously obtained in Part A, express
and
Correct
Part E Having solved the previous parts, you have all the pieces needed to calculate acceleration of the block of mass Hint E.1 . Write an expression for . , the magnitude of the
in terms of
, and
Correct
Hanging Chandelier
A chandelier with mass is attached to the ceiling of a large concert hall by two cables. Because the ceiling is covered with intricate architectural decorations (not indicated in the figure, which uses a humbler depiction), the
workers who hung the chandelier couldn't attach the cables to the ceiling directly above the chandelier. Instead, they attached the cables to the ceiling near the walls. Cable 1 has tension and makes an angle of with the ceiling. Cable 2 has tension with the ceiling. and makes an angle of
Part A Find an expression for Hint A.1 , the tension in cable 1, that does not depend on .
Hint A.2
Hint A.3
Express your answer in terms of some or all of the variables magnitude of the acceleration due to gravity .
ANSWER: =
, and
, as well as the
Correct
Hint A.2
Hint A.3
Find an expression for Hint not displayed Express your answer to two significant figures.
ANSWER: = 0.91 Correct
Score Summary:
Your score on this assignment is 100%. You received 40 out of a possible total of 40 points.