Jack is falling down the hill at a speed of 12 m/s. If Jack has a mass of 45 kg, what is his kinetic energy?
1 answer:
You might be interested in
Calculating speed as function of distance y is fairly easy. Once water leaves pipe it is under free fall which means that it is accelerating with gravitational acceleration "a".
V=Vo + Vff where Vff is speed gained due to free fall.
Calculating radius of stream is a little bit more complicated. Because water is accelerating as it falls it has to lower its radius. The reason for this is that water flow must be the same as one at the exit of pipe. Water flow is expressed in liters/meter^3
Because of this we write condition:
V1/V2 = A2/A1 where A2 and A1 are sections of water stream.
let V1 and A1 be the speed and section of water stream at the end of pipe.
A2 = V1*A1/V2
V=Vo + Vff where Vff is speed gained due to free fall.
Calculating radius of stream is a little bit more complicated. Because water is accelerating as it falls it has to lower its radius. The reason for this is that water flow must be the same as one at the exit of pipe. Water flow is expressed in liters/meter^3
Because of this we write condition:
V1/V2 = A2/A1 where A2 and A1 are sections of water stream.
let V1 and A1 be the speed and section of water stream at the end of pipe.
A2 = V1*A1/V2