A penny dropped into a wishing well reaches the bottom in 2.50 seconds. What was the velocity at impact?

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evablogger [386]3 years ago

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12345 [234]3 years ago

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Answer:

Taking it was dropped with inital velocity of 0m/s.

v = u+at

v = 0 + 9.8*1.5

v = 14.7s

(a=9.8m/s^2 << That's the acceleration due to gravity)

Explanation:

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Suppose you are standing on top of a hemisphere of radius r and you kick a soccer ball horizontally such that it has velocity v.

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$|v| =\sqrt{ G \cdot M / r}$ , where

$M$ the mass of the planet, and
$G$ the universal gravitation constant.

Explanation:

Minimizing the initial velocity of the soccer ball would minimize the amount of mechanical energy it has. It shall maintain a minimal gravitational potential possible at all time. It should therefore stay to the ground as close as possible. An elliptical trajectory would thus be unfavorable; the ball shall maintain a uniform circular motion as it orbits the planet.

Equation 1 (see below) relates net force the object experiences, $\Sigma F$ to its orbit velocity $v$ and its mass $m$ required for it to stay in orbit :

$\Sigma F = m \cdot v^{2} / r$ (equation 1)

The soccer ball shall experiences a combination of gravitational pull and air resistance (if any) as it orbits the planet. Assuming negligible air resistance, the net force $\Sigma F$ acting on the soccer ball shall equal to its weight, $W = m \cdot g$ where $g$ the gravitational acceleration constant. Thus

$\Sigma F = W = m \cdot g$ (equation 2)

Substitute equation 2 to the left hand side of equation 1 and solve for $v$ ; note how the mass of the soccer ball, $m$ , cancels out:

$m \cdot g = \Sigma F = m \cdot v^{2} / r \\ v^{2} = g \cdot r \\ |v| = \sqrt{g \cdot r} \; (|v| \ge 0)$ (equation 3)

Equation 4 gives the value of gravitational acceleration, $g$ , a point of negligible mass experiences at a distance $r$ from a planet of mass $M$ (assuming no other stellar object were present)