For an orbiting space station, ideally, the occupants would experience simulated gravity. One way to do so is to have the space station rotate. How could this simulate gravity? Would the occupants feel a centripetal force, and if so, what is the source? Would the occupants feel themselves spinning?

Q: Calculate the centripetal acceleration of a point 7.50 cm from the axis of an ultracentrifuge…

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Q: When the radius is constant does the centripetal force vary when the mass of the rotating object is…

A: Given data:  Radius is constant Mass of the rotating object is increase Required: The change in…

Q: Would it require less speed to launch a satellite (a) toward the east or (b) toward the west?…

A: The earth rotates about its own axis from west to east. When we launch a satellite, there must be…

Q: Engineers are trying to create artificial “gravity” in a ring-shaped space station by spinning the…

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Q: Calculate the centripetal acceleration of a point 7.50 cm from the axis of an ultracentrifuge…

A: radius, r = 7.5 cm  angular frequency, f = 7.5 x 104 rpm = 1250 rps

Q: floor for the astronauts, and centripetal acceleration supplied by the floor would allow astronauts…

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Q: In uniform circular motion, which of the following quantities are constant: speed, instantaneous…

A: Due to the uniform circular motion, the speed of the object will be constant.

Q: A rotating space station of radius 235 m is pictured above. What rotation rate must it have in order…

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Q: A fairground ride spins its occupants inside a flying saucer-shaped container. If the horizontal…

A: Radius , R = 3.37 m centripetal acceleration , a = 2.5 g To find = spinning speed in rpm

Q: A bowling ball (mass = 7.2 kg, radius = 0.15 m) and a billiard ball (mass = 0.32 kg, radius = 0.028…

A: Gravitational force is a force that attracts any two objects with mass. In order to obtain maximum…

Q: Where do you expect acceleration due to gravity to be larger (and why): at the poles or at the…

A: The value of the acceleration due to gravity at the pole is larger than at the equator because the…

Q: A cylindrical space station is 531 m in diameter. It rotates in order to create artificial gravity…

A: Diameter of the space station, (d)= 531 m The centripetal acceleration is (ac)=2.5 g Where, g=The…

Q: If the rotation of a planet of radius 4.42 x 10° m and free-fall acceleration .2 7.9 m/s increased…

A: Given : Radius (r) = 4.42 x 106 m Free-fall acceleration (a) = 7.9 m/s2

Q: If the horizontal circular path the riders follow has a 6.00 m radius, at how many revolutions per…

A: Radius of the ride (r)=6 m Centripetal acceleration (a)=1.1g=1.1×9.8=10.78 m/s2

Q: Calculate the centripetal acceleration for an object on the surface of radius 4000 km and, and the…

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Q: h is not physically contacting the Earth in any way. What, then, produces the centripetal force that…

A: Newton's First Law of Motion states that an object moving at a consistent rate will continue to move…

Q: A 3500 g car enters a curve with a radius of 45 cm. If the car is moving at a speed of 25 m/s, what…

A: Centripetal force =mv2R

Q: A 50.0-kg child stands at the rim of a merry-go-round of radius 2.85 m, rotating with an angular…

A: mass of child = 50 kg Radius = 2.85 m w ( angular speed) = 3.9 rad/sec

Q: To train for the physical demands of a shuttle launch, a 78.4 kg astronaut is put into a large…

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Q: A disk-shaped space station 200 m in diameter spins uniformly about an axis perpendicular to the…

A: Since the diameter of the disk is 200m, the radius will be 100m. The equation for the centripetal…

Q: Assuming that the Earth has a uniform density ?=5540.0 kg/m^3, what is the value of the…

A: (given) Uniform density of Earth = 5540 kg/m3 Distance (d) from the center of the Earth = 5900 km =…

Q: If an object is orbiting at an acceleration of 8.2 m/s2 in a shape of a circle with a radius of 3.2…

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Q: A car of mass 1.43x10ʻkg goes around an unbanked, circular curve of radius 26.6m at a speed of…

A: Given data:  Mass (m) = 1.43×103 kg Radius (r) = 26.6 m Speed (v) = 13.4 m/s Required: The…

Q: A 0.750 m string is used to whirl a 0.20 kg stone in a horizontal circle. If 15 circles are…

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Q: If a carousel goes around once every 30 seconds, and has a radius of 5.7 meters, what is the…

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Q: A 50.0-kg child stands at the rim of a merry-go-round of radius 2.85 m, rotating with an angular…

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Q: A fairground ride spins its occupants inside a flying saucer-shaped container. If the horizontal…

A: Data Given ,   Diameter of the circular path( d ) = 4.8 m So , Radius of the path ( r ) = d / 2 = (…

Q: ron man starts to uniformly circle around the Earth at its equator, with a radius of 6400 km.  When…

A: Given: The orbital radius of the iron man is 6400 km. The centripetal acceleration is 1g.

Q: Imagine you are on an amusement park and on a train ride. At some point the train ride follows a…

A: The expression for the centripetal acceleration is

Q: A 50.0-kg child stands at the rim of a merry-go-round of radius 2.90 m, rotating with an angular…

A: Given :           mass m = 50 kg           radius r = 2.90       angular speed ω= 3.65 rad/si…

Q: A space exploration program proposes to make artificial gravity on a space station that looks like a…

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Q: A 200-g ball at the end of a string is revolving uniformly in a horizontal circle of radius 0.500 m.…

A: We are allowed to give the explanation of first three subparts of a question only which is given…

Q: In the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, some spacefarers make the…

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Q: In the blockbuster hit Gravity, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are in a shuttle that is going…

A: Given:-                    In the blockbuster hit Gravity, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are in…

Q: A body describing an ellipse of eccentricity e under the action of a force tending toward a focus,…

A: To determine: The eccentricity of the new orbit.

Q: A car of mass 1.43x10°kg goes around an unbanked, circular curve of radius 26.6m at a speed of…

A: Given that               The mass of the car is (m) = 1.43×103Kg               Radius of the…

Q: If the standing astronaut moves with a speed of 3.1 m/s at a distance of 3.2 m from the center of…

A: Given data: Speed (v) = 3.1 m/s Radius (r) = 3.2 m Required: Centripetal acceleration (ac) as a…

Q: A car drives around a curve with radius 400 m at a speed of 32 m/s. The road is banked at 7.0…

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Q: If you are in a car that rounds a curve, and you are not wearing a seat belt, and you slide across…

A: If you are in a car that rounds a curve, and you are not wearing a seat belt, and you slide across…

Q: A 150-g ball at the end of a string is revolving uniformly in a horizontal circle of radius 0.600 m.…

A: Given data: Mass of ball, m=150 g=0.150 kg Radius of circle, r=0.600 m Number of revolutions, f=2…

Q: A fairground ride spins its occupants inside a flying saucer-shaped container. If the horizontal…

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Q: A space laboratory is rotating to create artificial gravity, as the figure indicates. Its period of…

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Q: You are Sergei Korolev, chief Soviet rocket scientist, and have developed the bright idea of putting…

A: Orbital velocity of a satellite is the speed that the satellite must have so that it can orbit in a…

Q: If an object is orbiting at an acceleration of 8.2 m/s2 in a shape of a circle with a radius of 3.2m…

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Centripetal Force

A particle, body, object or certain mass while travelling in a rotational path or semicircular path, experiences an inertia force. If that inertia force pulls the towards the inward of the imaginary circle in the rotation, it is termed as centripetal force.