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Anna71 [15]
3 years ago
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A scene in a movie has a stuntman falling through a floor onto a bed in the room below. The plan is to have the actor fall on hi

s back, but you have been hired to investigate the safety of this stunt. When you examine the mattress, you see that it effectively has a spring constant of 65144 N/m for the area likely to be impacted by the stuntman, but cannot depress more than 12.89 cm without injuring him. To approach this problem, consider a simplified version of the situation. A mass falls through a height of 3.32 m before landing on a spring of force constant 65144 N/m. Calculate the maximum mass that can fall on the mattress without exceeding the maximum compression distance.
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Physics
1 answer:
tekilochka [14]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

The maximum mass that can fall on the mattress without exceeding the maximum compression distance is 16.6 kg

Explanation:

Hi there!

Due to conservation of energy, the potential energy (PE) of the mass at a height of 3.32 m will be transformed into elastic potential energy (EPE) when it falls on the mattress:

PE = EPE

m · g · h = 1/2 k · x²

Where:

m = mass.

g = acceleration due to gravity.

h = height.

k = spring constant.

x = compression distance

The maximum compression distance is 0.1289 m, then, the maximum elastic potential energy will be the following:

EPE =1/2 k · x²

EPE = 1/2 · 65144 N/m · (0.1289 m)² = 541.2 J

Then, using the equation of gravitational potential energy:

PE = m · g · h =  541.2 J

m =  541.2 J/ g · h

m = 541.2 kg · m²/s² / (9.8 m/s² · 3.32 m)

m = 16.6 kg

The maximum mass that can fall on the mattress without exceeding the maximum compression distance is 16.6 kg.

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