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marysya [2.9K]
3 years ago
7

Suppose you are standing on top of a hemisphere of radius r and you kick a soccer ball horizontally such that it has velocity v.

what is the minimum v that ensures the ball will not hit the hemispherical surface. in this case, how far does the ball land from the base of the hemisphere?
Physics
1 answer:
Ksivusya [100]3 years ago
3 0

|v| =\sqrt{ G \cdot M / r}, where

  • M the mass of the planet, and
  • G the universal gravitation constant.

Explanation:

Minimizing the initial velocity of the soccer ball would minimize the amount of mechanical energy it has. It shall maintain a minimal gravitational potential possible at all time. It should therefore stay to the ground as close as possible. An elliptical trajectory would thus be unfavorable; the ball shall maintain a uniform circular motion as it orbits the planet.

<em>Equation 1</em>  (see below) relates net force the object experiences, \Sigma F to its orbit velocity v and its mass m required for it to stay in orbit :

\Sigma F = m \cdot v^{2} / r <em>(equation 1)</em>

The soccer ball shall experiences a combination of gravitational pull and air resistance (if any) as it orbits the planet. Assuming negligible air resistance, the net force \Sigma F acting on the soccer ball shall equal to its weight, W = m \cdot g where g the gravitational acceleration constant. Thus

\Sigma F = W = m \cdot g <em>(equation 2)</em>

Substitute equation 2 to the left hand side of <em>equation 1</em> and solve for v; note how the mass of the soccer ball, m, cancels out:

m \cdot g = \Sigma F = m \cdot v^{2} / r \\ v^{2} = g \cdot r \\ |v| = \sqrt{g \cdot r} \; (|v| \ge 0) <em>(equation 3)</em>

<em>Equation 4 </em> gives the value of gravitational acceleration, g, a point of negligible mass experiences at a distance r from a planet of mass M (assuming no other stellar object were present)

g = G \cdot M/ r^{2} <em>(equation 4)</em>

where the universal gravitation <em>constant</em> G = 6.67408 \times 10^{-11} \cdot \text{m}^{3} \cdot \text{kg}^{-1} \cdot \text{s}^{-2}

Thus

\begin{array}{lll}|v| &=& \sqrt{g \cdot r}\\ & =&\sqrt{ G \cdot M / r}\end{array}

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