An engineer wishes to design a curved exit ramp for a toll road in such a way that a car will not have to rely on friction to ro
und the curve without skidding. Suppose that a typical car rounds the curve with a speed of 11.7m/s and that the radius of the curve is 50.0m. At what angle should the curve be banked?
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To solve this problem we will make a graph that allows us to understand the components acting on the body. In this way we will have the centripetal Force and the Force by gravity generating a total component. If we take both forces and get the trigonometric ratio of the tangent we would have the angle is,
Dividing both.
Therefore the angle that should the curve be banked is 15.608°
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Answer:
a) 20 seconds
b) No.
Explanation:
t = Time taken for jet to stop
u = Initial velocity = 100 m/s (given in the question)
v = Final velocity = 0 (because the jet will stop at the end)
s = Displacement of the jet (Distance between the moment the jet touches the ground to the point the point it stops)
a = Acceleration = -5.00 m/s² (slowing down, so it is negative)
a) Equation of motion
The time required for the plane to slow down from the moment it touches the ground is 20 seconds.
The distance it requires for the jet to stop is 1000 m so in a small tropical island airport where the runway is 0.800 km long the plane would not be able to land. The runway needs to be atleast 1000 m long here the runway on the island is 1000-800 = 200 m short.
A) When the plane is flying straight down, there are three forces acting on it:
- the centripetal force
, directed toward the center of the circle (so, horizontally)
- the weight of the plane:
, downward, so vertically
- a third force, given by the propulsion of the plane, which is accelerating it towards the ground (because the problem says that the plane has an acceleration of a=12 m/s^2 towards the ground)
The radius of the circle is
, so the centripetal force acting on the plane is
On the vertical axis, we have two forces: the weight
and the other force F given by the propulsion. Since we know that their sum should generate an acceleration equal to
, we can find the magnitude of this other force F by using Newton's second law:
So, the net force acting on the plane will be the resultant of the centripetal force (acting in the horizontal direction) and the two forces W and F (acting in the vertical direction):
(b) The tangent of the angle with respect to the horizontal is the ratio between the sum of the forces in the vertical direction (taken with negative sign, since they are directed downward) and the forces acting in the horizontal direction, so:
And so, the angle is
- the centripetal force
- the weight of the plane:
- a third force, given by the propulsion of the plane, which is accelerating it towards the ground (because the problem says that the plane has an acceleration of a=12 m/s^2 towards the ground)
The radius of the circle is
On the vertical axis, we have two forces: the weight
and the other force F given by the propulsion. Since we know that their sum should generate an acceleration equal to
So, the net force acting on the plane will be the resultant of the centripetal force (acting in the horizontal direction) and the two forces W and F (acting in the vertical direction):
(b) The tangent of the angle with respect to the horizontal is the ratio between the sum of the forces in the vertical direction (taken with negative sign, since they are directed downward) and the forces acting in the horizontal direction, so:
And so, the angle is