Well, first of all, one who is sufficiently educated to deal with solving
this exercise is also sufficiently well informed to know that a weighing
machine, or "scale", should not be calibrated in units of "kg" ... a unit
of mass, not force. We know that the man's mass doesn't change,
and the spectre of a readout in kg that is oscillating is totally bogus.
If the mass of the man standing on the weighing machine is 60kg, then
on level, dry land on Earth, or on the deck of a ship in calm seas on Earth,
the weighing machine will display his weight as 588 newtons or as
132.3 pounds. That's also the reading as the deck of the ship executes
simple harmonic motion, at the points where the vertical acceleration is zero.
If the deck of the ship is bobbing vertically in simple harmonic motion with
amplitude of M and period of 15 sec, then its vertical position is
y(t) = y₀ + M sin(2π t/15) .
The vertical speed of the deck is y'(t) = M (2π/15) cos(2π t/15)
and its vertical acceleration is y''(t) = - (2πM/15) (2π/15) sin(2π t/15)
= - (4 π² M / 15²) sin(2π t/15)
= - 0.1755 M sin(2π t/15) .
There's the important number ... the 0.1755 M.
That's the peak acceleration.
From here, the problem is a piece-o-cake.
The net vertical force on the intrepid sailor ... the guy standing on the
bathroom scale out on the deck of the ship that's "bobbing" on the
high seas ... is (the force of gravity) + (the force causing him to 'bob'
harmonically with peak acceleration of 0.1755 x amplitude).
At the instant of peak acceleration, the weighing machine thinks that
the load upon it is a mass of 65kg, when in reality it's only 60kg.
The weight of 60kg = 588 newtons.
The weight of 65kg = 637 newtons.
The scale has to push on him with an extra (637 - 588) = 49 newtons
in order to accelerate him faster than gravity.
Now I'm going to wave my hands in the air a bit:
Apparent weight = (apparent mass) x (real acceleration of gravity)
(Apparent mass) = (65/60) = 1.08333 x real mass.
Apparent 'gravity' = 1.08333 x real acceleration of gravity.
The increase ... the 0.08333 ... is the 'extra' acceleration that's due to
the bobbing of the deck.
0.08333 G = 0.1755 M
The 'M' is what we need to find.
Divide each side by 0.1755 : M = (0.08333 / 0.1755) G
'G' = 9.0 m/s²
M = (0.08333 / 0.1755) (9.8) = 4.65 meters .
That result fills me with an overwhelming sense of no-confidence.
But I'm in my office, supposedly working, so I must leave it to others
to analyze my work and point out its many flaws.
In any case, my conscience is clear ... I do feel that I've put in a good
5-points-worth of work on this problem, even if the answer is wrong .
Answer:
<h3>The answer is 0.59 m/s²</h3>
Explanation:
The acceleration of an object given it's mass and the force acting on it can be found by using the formula
f is the force
m is the mass
From the question we have
We have the final answer as
<h3>0.59 m/s²</h3>
Hope this helps you
Answer:
True The net force must be zero for the acceleration to be zero
Explanation:
In order to analyze the statements of this problem we propose your solution.
First let's look at Newton's first, which stable that every object is at rest or with constant speed unless something takes it out of this state (acceleration)
Now let's look at the second postulate, which says that force is related to the product of the mass of a body and its acceleration.
As a result of these two laws, for a body is a constant velocity the summation force on it must be zero.
Now we can analyze the statements given.
True The net force must be zero for the acceleration to be zero
False. If the force is different from zero, there is acceleration that changes the speeds
False. There may be forces, but the sum of them must be zero
False. If a force acts, the acceleration is different from zero and the speed changes
The speed of the ball just before impact was v=√(2gh) = 6.26m/s. The acceleration is twice this over the time (twice because the second speed is the same in the other direction, meaning the total change in speed is 2V)
a = 12.52/0.10 = 125.2m/s²
The force is F=ma, so F = 0.5kg·125.2m/s² = 62.6N
