What is the state of an object accelerating due to the force of gravity alone?
1 answer:
Answer:
Its state is in uniformly accelerated motion
Explanation:
When an object is acted upon the force of gravity only, we said that the object is in free fall.
According to Newton's second law of motion:
where F is the net force on an object, m is its mass, a its acceleration, when the net force on an object (F) is non-zero, than the object accelerates (because a is non-zero), so the object is in accelerated motion.
In case of free fall, the rate of acceleration of the object is equal to , the acceleration due to gravity, and it is constant. So, the object is moving by uniformly accelerated motion.
You might be interested in
Explanation:
Centripetal Force is the force that keeps the object's rotation in a circular path and it's always directed towards the center of rotation. Mathematically, it is given as,
From this equation it can be concluded that the centripetal force is proportional to the product of mass and the square of velocity. It is inversely proportional to the object's distance from the center.
Now in the above mentioned case, when the cylinder begins spinning very rapidly and it's speed becomes double. Then by applying the above equation we conclude that " the force will be increased four times if the speed is doubled as it is proportional to square of speed."