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3 years ago

Wha happens to the weight of astronauts when they are in orbit

Physics

2 answers:

Lynna [10]3 years ago

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That depends on the size of the orbit.

In "low Earth orbit", like the Mercury, Gemini, early Apollo flights, and aboard the ISS, the astronauts' weight is about 85% of their weight when they're standing on the Earth's surface.

BUT ... since everything in orbit is in "free fall", they don't <em>feel </em>the weight of their own body or anything else. The feeling is like being completely without any weight.

Bingel [31]3 years ago

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Microgravity. It is sometimes called zero- gravity, but this is wrong. What happens is they go into free fall. On earth, gravity causes all things to fall, it can essentially be called a 'vacuum' if you will. So, I'm not to sure about it, but that's kind of what happens.

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A uniform electric ﬁeld exists in the region between two oppositely charged plane-parallel plates. An electron is released from

Zigmanuir [339]

Answer:

Explanation:

given S = distance from the first = 3.20cm = 0.032m, t = 1.30×10−8 s

q = 1.6 x 10_19C

using S = at^2/2

acceleration = 0.032 X 2 /(1.30×10−8)^2

a = 3.79 x 10^14m/s^2

From F = ma

F = qE

ma = qE

E = ma /q = 9.11 x 10^-31 x 3.79 x 10^14 / 1.6 x 10^-19

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3 years ago

Which of Newton's laws explains why satellites need very little fuel to stay in oribit?

Angelina_Jolie [31]

Sattelites don't need any fuel to stay in orbit. The applicable law is...."objects in motion tend to stay in motion". Having reached orbital velocity, any such object is essentially "falling" around the earth. Since there is no (or at least very little) friction in the vacuum of space, the object does not slow.... It simply continues.

Sattelites in "low" earth orbit do encounter some friction from the very thin upper atmosphere, and they will eventually "decay".

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3 years ago

A jet is travelling at a speed of 1200 km/h and drops cargo from a height of 2.5 km above the ground Calculate the time it takes

OLEGan [10]

a) Time of flight: 22.6 s

To calculate the time it takes for the cargo to reach the ground, we just consider the vertical motion of the cargo.

The vertical position at time t is given by

$y(t) = h +u_y t - \frac{1}{2}gt^2$

where

h = 2.5 km = 2500 m is the initial height

$u_y = 0$ is the initial vertical velocity of the cargo

g = 9.8 m/s^2 is the acceleration of gravity

The cargo reaches the ground when

$y(t) = 0$

So substituting it into the equation and solving for t, we find the time of flight of the cargo:

$0 = h - \frac{1}{2}gt^2\\t=\sqrt{\frac{2h}{g}}=\sqrt{\frac{2(2500)}{9.8}}=22.6 s$

b) 7.5 km

The range travelled by the cargo can be calculated by considering its horizontal motion only. In fact, the horizontal motion is a uniform motion, with constant velocity equal to the initial velocity of the jet:

$v_x = 1200 km/h \cdot \frac{1000 m/km}{3600 s/h}=333.3 m/s$