Material medium electric waves
There are missing data in the text of the problem (found them on internet):
- speed of the car at the top of the hill:
- radius of the hill:
Solution:
(a) The car is moving by circular motion. There are two forces acting on the car: the weight of the car
(downwards) and the normal force N exerted by the road (upwards). The resultant of these two forces is equal to the centripetal force,
, so we can write:
(1)
By rearranging the equation and substituting the numbers, we find N:
(b) The problem is exactly identical to step (a), but this time we have to use the mass of the driver instead of the mass of the car. Therefore, we find:
(c) To find the car speed at which the normal force is zero, we can just require N=0 in eq.(1). and the equation becomes:
from which we find
Answer:
The question is incomplete. However, I believe, it is asking for the acceleration of the elevator. This is 3.16 m/s².
Explanation:
By Hooke's law,
F is the force on a spring, k is the spring constant and e is the extension or compression.
From the question,
This is the force on the mass suspended on the spring. Its acceleration, a, is given by
This acceleration is more than the acceleration due to gravity, g = 9.8 m/s². Hence the elevator must be moving up with an acceleration of
12.96 - 9.8 m/s² = 3.16 m/s²