A skydiver reaches terminal velocity. Then he opens his parachute.
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Explanation:
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He's pulled upwards by the parachute. The formula is given below. Details are found searching for terminal velocity.
Whatever that calculation turns out to be, a person has to be going a whole lot slower before he can safely hit the ground. The parachute is designed so that the person will be slowed very quickly to a safe velocity so when he hits the ground the impulse will not be as great as it could be. The force that the parachute delivers acts upward and opposes the force of gravity which is a downward force.
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Answer:
The rocket has to be launched 8 m from the hoop
Explanation:
Let's analyze this problem, the rocket is on a car that moves horizontally, so the rocket also has the same speed as the car; The initial horizontal rocket speed is (v₀ₓ = 3.0 m/s).
On the other hand, when starting the engines we have a vertical force, which creates an acceleration in the vertical axis, let's use Newton's second law to find this vertical acceleration
F -W = m a
a = (F-mg) / m
a = F/m -g
a = 7.0/0.500 - 9.8
a = 4.2 m/s²
We see that we have a positive acceleration and that is what we are going to use in the parabolic motion equations
Let's look for the time it takes for the rocket to reach the height (y = 15m) of the hoop, when the rocket fires its initial vertical velocity is zero (I'm going = 0)
y = t + ½ a t²
y = 0 + ½ a t²
t = √ 2y/a
t = √( 2 15 / 4.2)
t = 2.67 s
This time is also the one that takes in the horizontal movement, let's calculate how far it travels
x = v₀ₓ t
x = 3 2.67
x = 8 m
The rocket has to be launched 8 m from the hoop