Answer:
e) 120m/s
Explanation:
When the ball reaches its highest point, its velocity becomes zero, meaning
.
where
is the initial velocity.
Solving for
we get
which is the time it takes the ball to reach the highest point.
Now, after the ball has reached its highest point, it turns around and falls downwards. After time
since it had reached the highest point, the ball has traveled downwards and the velocity
it has gained is
,
and we are told that this is twice the initial velocity
; therefore,

which gives

Thus, the total time taken to reach velocity
is


This
, we are told, is 36 seconds; therefore,

and solving for
we get:



which from the options given is choice e.



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If west means the west of the axis x the velocity equal :

Answer:
The first part can be solved via conservation of energy.

For the second part,
the free body diagram of the car should be as follows:
- weight in the downwards direction
- normal force of the track to the car in the downwards direction
The total force should be equal to the centripetal force by Newton's Second Law.

where
because we are looking for the case where the car loses contact.

Now we know the minimum velocity that the car should have. Using the energy conservation found in the first part, we can calculate the minimum height.

Explanation:
The point that might confuse you in this question is the direction of the normal force at the top of the loop.
We usually use the normal force opposite to the weight. However, normal force is the force that the road exerts on us. Imagine that the car goes through the loop very very fast. Its tires will feel a great amount of normal force, if its velocity is quite high. By the same logic, if its velocity is too low, it might not feel a normal force at all, which means losing contact with the track.