Topic 6 Circular motion and gravitation
Assessment
PROBLEM SET
NAME:
________________________________ TEAM:__
Formative
THIS IS A PRACTICE ASSESSMENT. Show formulas, substitutions, answers, and units!
Topic 6.1 Circular motion
A 6.5-kg bowling ball is being swung horizontally in a clockwise direction
(as viewed from above) at a constant speed in a circle of radius 1.5 m.
1. Suppose the time it takes the ball to make one complete revolution is
4.0 s. What is the centripetal acceleration of the ball?
2. What is the tension in the cable that is used to swing the ball?
3. What is the distance the ball travels in one revolution?
4. What is the work done by the tension in one revolution?
5. What is the angular speed of the ball?
6. What is the angular velocity of the ball?
A 6.5-kg bowling ball is being swung horizontally in a counterclockwise
direction (as viewed from above) at a constant speed in a circle of radius
1.5 m.
7. Suppose the speed of the ball is 8.0 ms -1. What is the centripetal acceleration of
the ball?
8. What is the period of the ball?
9. What is the frequency of the ball?
[Link] is the angular velocity of the ball?
[Link] is the work done by the tension in the cable used to swing the ball during
one revolution?
A 725-kg car is traveling north and makes a gradual turn to the east
at a constant speed of 25.0 ms-1. The radius of the turn is 128 m.
[Link] is the angular velocity of the car during the turn?
[Link] friction force is needed for this turn?
[Link] is the smallest radius for which the turn could be designed so that the car
does not slip at this speed. Assume the coefficient of static friction is 0.750 and
that the road is level (unbanked).
[Link] is the purpose of banking roads?
A loaded KC-135 Stratotanker air refueling plane has
a loaded mass of 135000 kg. It is shown traveling
north at a speed of 853 km h -1 and banking at an
angle of = 24 in level flight.
[Link] does a plane bank?
[Link] the vectors, WEIGHT, LIFT, and CENTRIPETAL
FORCE, in the diagram.
[Link] the magnitude of the weight vector.
[Link] the magnitude of the vertical component of the
lift vector.
[Link] the magnitude of the horizontal component of
the lift vector.
[Link] is the centripetal acceleration of the plane?
[Link] is the radius of the turn?
[Link] long will it take for the plane to travel to the east if it maintains its speed?
The Goliath is a new wooden roller coaster that allows the riders to go upside-down
on the loop shown below. The starting height of the coaster is 125. m. The radius of
the loop is 25.0 m. Riders board the cars at A. The 2300-kg car is drawn by a chain
up to the point B and then released from rest. Gravity does everything from then on
B
through the points C, D and E!
C
A
D
E
[Link] is the kinetic energy of the car at D?
[Link] is the speed of the car at D?
[Link] is the magnitude of the normal force between car and track at D? Include a
free-body diagram of the car at D.
[Link] is the maximum radius that the loop could have so that the car does not
lose contact with the track at D?
Topic 6.2 Newtons law of gravitation
[Link] Newtons universal law of gravitation.
[Link] Newtons shell theorem and why it is useful for finding the gravitational
force between, say, a planet and a moon.
30.A planet has a mass of M = 7.51026 kg and its moon has a mass of m = 2.21021
kg. The mean distance between the planets center and its moons center is 1.4
109 m. What is the gravitational force between them?
[Link] gravitational field strength.
[Link] why the concept of field replaced the
concept of action-at-a-distance.
Three regions in the vicinity of the earth are shown below at different scales.
Earth
Surface of Earth
Ice rink
[Link] the gravitational field lines near each object:
[Link] of the above gravitational fields is uniform and constant? How can you
tell?
A planet has a mass of 2.50 1028 kg and a radius of 8.75 106 m. It
has an angular speed of 0.0000625 rad s-1.
[Link] is the gravitational field strength 8.75108 m from the
center of this planet?
[Link] is the acceleration of a 25.0-kg mass dropped at this point?
[Link] we wanted that same mass to be in orbit at this radius, what velocity would
this mass have to have?
[Link] would its period be?
[Link] is the value of g at the surface of this planet?
[Link] a 25.0-kg mass is dropped near the surface of this planet, what would its
acceleration be?
[Link] would its weight be?
[Link] is the length of a day, in hours, for this planet?
[Link] many planet radii would a geosynchronous satellite
need to be placed?
Two masses of 4.501022 kg each are located along the x-axis. The first mass is at
the origin, and the second mass is at x = +1.25106 m.
[Link] the gravitational field strength at the point on the x-axis directly between
the two masses.
[Link] the gravitational field strength at x = +2.50106 m.
[Link] a 16.5-kg mass is released at x = +2.50106 m, what will its acceleration be
(both magnitude and direction).
The sun has a mass of 1.9891030 kg.
[Link] that an earth year is 365.25 d, find the radius of the earth
orbit (assuming it is circular).
[Link] that the speed of light is c = 3.00108 ms-1, find out how
long it takes light from the sun to reach earth. Convert your
answer to minutes.
[Link] that a Pluto year is 90471 Earth days, what is Plutos
orbital radius?
[Link] long does it take light from the sun to reach Pluto?
Two isolated spheres of equal mass and
different radii are held a distance d apart.
The gravitational field strength is measured on the line joining the two masses at
position x which varies.
[Link] the variation of g with x.
[Link] is g less on one side than on the other even
though the masses are the same?
[Link] is g = 0 somewhere between the two
masses?