2. Suppose you are on an elevator accelerating upwards. You feel as if your weight has:
1 answer:
You feel your weight has a) increased
Explanation:
There are two forces acting on you when you are standing on the elevator:
- The force of gravity (weight), given by
(where m is your mass and g the acceleration of gravity), acting downward
- The normal reaction exerted by the floor of the elevator on you, N, acting upward
Therefore, we can write Newton's second law applied to this situation as:
where is the acceleration of the elevator (positive since it is upward).
The weigth that you feel is actually the magnitude of the normal force exerted by the floor on you, N. Re-writing the equation,
Here for the convention used, both g and a are positive: this means that the normal reaction is actually larger than your real weight,
so, you feel that your weight has increased.
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Answer:
a) I= I₀ (cos²θ - cos⁴θ) b) 75.5º
Explanation:
a) For this exercise we must use Malus's law
I = I₀ cos² θ
where tea is the angle between the two polarizers.
We apply this expression to our case
* Polarizer 1 suppose that it is vertical and polarizer 2 (intermediate) is at an angle θ with respect to the vertical
I₁ = I₀ cos² θ
* We analyze for the polarity 2 and the last polarizer 3 which indicate that it must be at 90º from the first one, therefore it must be horizontal.
The angle of polarizers 2 and 3 is θ' measured from the horizontal, if we measure with respect to the vertical
θ₂ = 90- θ’ = θ
fiate that in the exercise we must take a reference system and measure everything with respect to this system.
I = I₁ cos² θ'
we substitute
I = (I₀ cos² tea) cos² (θ - 90)
cos (θ -90) = cos θ cos 90 + sin θ sin 90 = sin θ
I = Io cos² θ sin² θ
1= cos²θ+ sin²θ
sin²θ = 1 - cos²θ
I= I₀ (cos²θ - cos⁴θ)
b) to find when the intensity is maximum,
we can use that we have an extreme point when the drift is zero
= 0
\frac{dI}{d \theta}= Io (2 cos θ - 4 cos³θ) = 0
whereby
cos θ - 2 cos³ θ = 0
cos θ ( 1 - 2 cos² θ) = 0
The zeros of this function are in
θ = 90º
1-2cos²θ =0 cos θ = 0.25 θ = 75.5º
Let's analyze this two results for the angle of 90º the intnesidd is zero with respect to the first polarizer, so it is not an acceptable solution.
Consequently, the angle that allows the maximum intensity to pass is 75.5º