Energy from the gravitational potential store in converted to kinetic energy. Air friction acts against the object, dissipating some energy as heat or sound. The object will continuously accelerate until the acceleration is equal to the air friction acting against it. This is when it reaches terminal velocity
Answer:
time to fall is 3.914 seconds
Explanation:
given data
half distance time = 1.50 s
to find out
find the total time of its fall
solution
we consider here s is total distance
so equation of motion for distance
s = ut + 0.5 × at² .........1
here s is distance and u is initial speed that is 0 and a is acceleration due to gravity = 9.8 and t is time
so for last 1.5 sec distance is 0.5 of its distance so equation will be
0.5 s = 0 + 0.5 × (9.8) × ( t - 1.5)² ........................1
and
velocity will be
v = u + at
so velocity v = 0+ 9.8(t-1.5) ..................2
so first we find time
0.5 × (9.8) × ( t - 1.5)² = 9.8(t-1.5) + 0.5 ( 9.8)
solve and we get t
t = 3.37 s
so time to fall is 3.914 seconds
Answer:
a) t=24s
b) number of oscillations= 11
Explanation:
In case of a damped simple harmonic oscillator the equation of motion is
m(d²x/dt²)+b(dx/dt)+kx=0
Therefore on solving the above differential equation we get,
x(t)=A₀
where A(t)=A₀
A₀ is the amplitude at t=0 and
is the angular frequency of damped SHM, which is given by,

Now coming to the problem,
Given: m=1.2 kg
k=9.8 N/m
b=210 g/s= 0.21 kg/s
A₀=13 cm
a) A(t)=A₀/8
⇒A₀
=A₀/8
⇒
applying logarithm on both sides
⇒
⇒
substituting the values

b) 

, where
is time period of damped SHM
⇒
let
be number of oscillations made
then, 
⇒
Answer:
160.75 N
Explanation:
The downward velocity has no effect on the force situation, it is only changes in velocity (plus, of course, gravity, which is always there) that require a force. At constant velocity, the bottom spring s_3 is supporting its mass m_3 to balance gravity.
As the elevator slows, though, it also ends up slowing down the spring arrangement, too. However, because the stretching takes time, it means that some damped harmonic motion will be set up in the spring chain.
When the motion has finally damped out, the net force the bottom spring s3 exerts on m3 has two components--that of gravity and of the deceleration of the elevator:
F_3net = m3 * (g + a) = 10.5×(9.81+5.5)= 10.5×15.31= 160.75 N