A tire swing hanging from a branch reaches nearly to the ground. How could you estimate the height of the branch using only a st
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Answer:
Explanation:
With the help of expression of time period of pendulum we can calculate the height of the branch . The swinging tire can be considered equivalent to swinging bob of a pendulum . Here length of pendulum will be equal to height of branch .
Let it be h . Let the time period of swing of tire be T then from the formula of time period of pendulum
where l is length of pendulum .
here l = h so
If we calculate the time period of swing of tire , we can calculate the height of branch .
The time period of swing of tire can be estimated with the help of a stop watch . Time period is time that the tire will take in going from one extreme point to the other end and then coming back . We can easily estimate it with the help of stop watch .
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Gravitational force is given by:
where G is the gravitational constant, m1 and m2 are the masses of the two objects, and r their separation.
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Answer:
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Explanation:
The horizontal motion of the projectile is a uniform motion with constant speed, since there are no forces acting along the horizontal direction (if we neglect air resistance), so the horizontal acceleration is zero.
The horizontal component of the velocity of the projectile is
and it is constant during the motion;
the total time of flight is
t = 5 s
Therefore, we can apply the formula of the uniform motion to find the horizontal displacement of the projectile: