If the mass of the spacecraft were doubled, how much would the force of gravity would change?
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According to the <u>Third Kepler’s Law of Planetary motion</u> “<em>The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis (size) of its orbit”.</em>
In other words, this law states a relation between the orbital period of a body (moon, planet, satellite) orbiting a greater body in space with the size
of its orbit.
This Law is originally expressed as follows:
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Where;
is the Gravitational Constant and its value is
is the mass of Jupiter
is the semimajor axis of the orbit Io describes around Jupiter (assuming it is a circular orbit, the semimajor axis is equal to the radius of the orbit)
If we want to find the period, we have to express equation (1) as written below and substitute all the values:
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Then:
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Which is the same as:
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Therefore, the answer is:
The orbital period of Io is 42.482 h
This question is incomplete, the complete question is;
In a softball windmill pitch, the pitcher rotates her arm through just over half a circle, bringing the ball from a point above her shoulder and slightly forward to a release point below her shoulder and slightly forward. (Figure 1) shows smoothed data for the angular velocity of the upper arm of a college softball pitcher doing a windmill pitch; at time t = 0 her arm is vertical and already in motion. For the first 0.15 s there is a steady increase in speed, leading to a final push with a greater acceleration during the final 0.05 s before the release. In each part of the problem, determine the corresponding quantity during the first 0.15 s of the pitch.
Angular Velocity at time 0s = 12 rad/s
Angular Velocity at time 0.15s = 24 rad/s
a) What is the angular acceleration?
b) If the ball is 0.60 m from her shoulder, what is the tangential acceleration of the ball? This is the key quantity here--it's a measure of how much the ball is speeding up. Express your answer in m/s2 and in units of g
Answer:
a) the angular acceleration is 80 rad/s²
b) the tangential acceleration of the ball is;
- a = 48 m/s²
- a = 4.9 g
Explanation:
Given the data in the question;
from the graph below;
Angular Velocity at time 0s = 12 rad/s
Angular Velocity at time 0.15s = 24 rad/s
a) What is the angular acceleration;
Angular acceleration ∝ = ( -
) / dt
we substitute
Angular acceleration ∝ = ( 24 - 12 ) / 0.15
Angular acceleration ∝ = 12 / 0.15
Angular acceleration ∝ = 80 rad/s²
Therefore, the angular acceleration is 80 rad/s²
b)
If the ball is 0.60 m from her shoulder, i.e s = 0.6 m
the tangential acceleration of the ball will be;
a = ∝ × s
we substitute
a = 80 × 0.6
a = 48 m/s²
a = ( 48 / 9.8 )g
a = 4.9 g
Therefore, the tangential acceleration of the ball is;
- a = 48 m/s²
- a = 4.9 g
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