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kolezko [41]
2 years ago
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So far in your life, you may have assumed that as you are sitting in your chair right now, you are not accelerating. However, th

is picture is not quite complete! You are on the surface of the Earth, which is rotating. While answering the following questions you may ignore the Earth’s motion around the sun, galactic center, etc. (though that is another interesting question!) (a) What is the magnitude of the acceleration of a person sitting in a chair on the equator? (b) At the equator, is your mass times the gravitational acceleration of the Earth greater than, less than, or equal to the normal force exerted on you by the chair you are sitting on? Explain. (c) A classmate of yours asks you why we have ignored this acceleration for the whole first term of physics. "Is everything we’ve learned a lie?" they ask. Ease their fears by calculating the percentage difference between the normal force from the chair and your weight while sitting on equator. (d) The latitude of Corvallis is 44.4˚. What is your acceleration while sitting in your chair?
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tia_tia [17]2 years ago
5 0

Answer:

a) a=33.73mm/s^{2}

b) mg>N

c) \%_{change}=0.343\%

d) a=24.07mm/s^{2}

Explanation:

In order to solve part a) of the problem, we can start by drawing a free body diagram of the presented situation. (see attached picture).

In this case, we know the centripetal acceleration is given by the following formula:

a_{c}=\omega ^{2}r

where:

\omega=\frac{2\pi}{T}

we know the period of rotation of the earth is about 24 hours, so:

T=24hr*\frac{3600s}{1hr}=86400s

so we can now find the angular speed:

\omega=\frac{2\pi}{86400s}

\omega=72.72x10^{-6} rad/s^{2}

So the centripetal acceleration will be:

a_{c} =(72.72x10^{-6} rad/s^{2})^{2}(6478x10^{3}m)

which yields:

a_{c}=33.73mm/s^{2}

b)

In order to answer part b, we must draw a free body diagram of us sitting on a chair. (See attached picture.)

So we can do a sum of forces in equilibrium:

\sum F=0

so we get that:

N-mg+ma_{c} = 0

and solve for the normal force:

N=mg-ma_{c}

In this case, we can clearly see that:

mg>mg-ma_{c}

therefore mg>N

This is because the centripetal acceleration is pulling us upwards, that will make the magnitude of the normal force smaller than the product of the mass times the acceleration of gravity.

c)

So let's calculate our weight and normal force:

Let's say we weight a total of 60kg, so:

mg=(60kg)(9.81m/s^{2})=588.6N

and let's calculate the normal force:

N=m(g-a_{c})

N=(60kg)(9.81m/s^{2}-33.73x10^{-3}m/s^{2})

N=586.58N

so now we can calculate the percentage change:

\%_{change} = \frac{mg-N}{mg}x100\%

so we get:

\%_{change} = \frac{588.6N-586.58N}{588.6N} x 100\%

\%_{change}=0.343\%

which is a really small change.

d) In order to find this acceleration, we need to start by calculating the radius of rotation at that point of earth. (See attached picture).

There, we can see that the radius can be found by using the cos function:

cos \theta = \frac{AS}{h}

In this case:

cos \theta = \frac{r}{R_{E}}

so we can solve for r, so we get:

r= R_{E}cos \theta

in this case we'll use the average radius of earch which is 6,371 km, so we get:

r = (6371x10^{3}m)cos (44.4^{o})

which yields:

r=4,551.91 km

and now we can calculate the acceleration at that point:

a=\omega ^{2}r

a=(72.72x10^{-6} rad/s)^{2}(4,551.91x10^{3}m

a=24.07 mm/s^{2}

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