These days, scientists all over the world use a standard system of measurements. It's the SI or metric system.
What about scientists in the United States, Liberia, and Burma ?
These three countries are the only ones in the world that haven't
adopted the metric system. What do THEY do ?
Easy. When scientists in those countries are off work, they use the
inches, yards, feet, quarts, miles and gallons that everybody around
them is using. But when they go to work, they use the same metric
system that everyone else in the world is using.
Answer:
a) A = 4.0 m
, b) w = 3.0 rad / s
, c) f = 0.477 Hz
, d) T = 20.94 s
Explanation:
The equation that describes the oscillatory motion is
x = A cos (wt + fi)
In the exercise we are told that the expression is
x = 4.0 cos (3.0 t + 0.10)
let's answer the different questions
a) the amplitude is
A = 4.0 m
b) the frequency or angular velocity
w = 3.0 rad / s
c) angular velocity and frequency are related
w = 2π f
f = w / 2π
f = 3 / 2π
f = 0.477 Hz
d) the period
frequency and period are related
T = 1 / f
T = 1 / 0.477
T = 20.94 s
e) the phase constant
Ф = 0.10 rad
f) velocity is defined by
v = dx / dt
v = - A w sin (wt + Ф)
speed is maximum when sine is + -1
v = A w
v = 4 3
v = 12 m / s
g) the angular velocity is
w² = k / m
k = m w²
k = 1.2 3²
k = 10.8 N / m
h) the total energy of the oscillator is
Em = ½ k A²
Em = ½ 10.8 4²
Em = 43.2 J
i) the potential energy is
Ke = ½ k x²
for t = 0 x = 4 cos (0 + 0.1)
x = 3.98 m
j) kinetic energy
K = ½ m v²
for t = 00.1
²
v = A w sin 0.10
v = 4 3 sin 0.10
v = 1.98 m / s
The trickiest part of this problem was making sure where the Yakima Valley is.
OK so it's generally around the city of the same name in Washington State.
Just for a place to work with, I picked the Yakima Valley Junior College, at the
corner of W Nob Hill Blvd and S16th Ave in Yakima. The latitude in the middle
of that intersection is 46.585° North. <u>That's</u> the number we need.
Here's how I would do it:
-- The altitude of the due-south point on the celestial equator is always
(90° - latitude), no matter what the date or time of day.
-- The highest above the celestial equator that the ecliptic ever gets
is about 23.5°.
-- The mean inclination of the moon's orbit to the ecliptic is 5.14°, so
that's the highest above the ecliptic that the moon can ever appear
in the sky.
This sets the limit of the highest in the sky that the moon can ever appear.
90° - 46.585° + 23.5° + 5.14° = 72.1° above the horizon .
That doesn't happen regularly. It would depend on everything coming
together at the same time ... the moon happens to be at the point in its
orbit that's 5.14° above ==> (the point on the ecliptic that's 23.5° above
the celestial equator).
Depending on the time of year, that can be any time of the day or night.
The most striking combination is at midnight, within a day or two of the
Winter solstice, when the moon happens to be full.
In general, the Full Moon closest to the Winter solstice is going to be
the moon highest in the sky. Then it's going to be somewhere near
67° above the horizon at midnight.
