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What holds the moon in place, orbiting around the Earth

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The Earth's gravity keeps the Moon orbiting us. It keeps changing the direction of the Moon's velocity. This means gravity makes the Moon accelerate all the time, even though its speed remains constant.

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You pull on a spring whose spring constant is 22 N/m, and stretch it from its equilibrium length of 0.3 m to a length of 0.7 m.

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Answer:

W= 4.4 J

Explanation

Elastic potential energy theory

If we have a spring of constant K to which a force F that produces a Δx deformation is applied, we apply Hooke's law:

F=K*x Formula (1): The force F applied to the spring is proportional to the deformation x of the spring.

As the force is variable to calculate the work we define an average force

$F_{a} =\frac{F_{f}+F_{i} }{2}$ Formula (2)

Ff: final force

Fi: initial force

The work done on the spring is :

W = Fa*Δx

Fa : average force

Δx : displacement

$W = F_{a} (x_{f} -x_{i} )$ :Formula (3)

$x_{f}$ : final deformation

$x_{i}$ :initial deformation

Problem development

We calculate Ff and Fi , applying formula (1) :

$F_{f} = K*x_{f} =22\frac{N}{m} *0.7m =15.4N$

$F_{i} = K*x_{i} =22\frac{N}{m} *0.3m =6.6N$

We calculate average force applying formula (2):

$F_{a} =\frac{15.4N+6.2N}{2} = 11 N$

We calculate the work done on the spring applying formula (3) : :

W= 11N*(0.7m-0.3m) = 11N*0.4m=4.4 N*m = 4.4 Joule = 4.4 J

Work done in stages

Work is the change of elastic potential energy (ΔEp)

W=ΔEp

ΔEp= Epf-Epi

Epf= final potential energy

Epi=initial potential energy

$E_{pf} =\frac{1}{2} *k*x_{f}^{2}$

$E_{pi} =\frac{1}{2} *k*x_{i}^{2}$

$E_{pf} =\frac{1}{2} *22*0.7^{2} = 5.39 J$

$E_{pf} =\frac{1}{2} *22*0.3^{2} = 0.99 J$

W=ΔEp= 5.39 J-0.99 J = 4.4J

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Answer:

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Answer:

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A 22.0-kg child is riding a playground merrygo-round that is rotating at 40.0 rev/min. What centripetal force is exerted if he i

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Answer:

F=480.491 N

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mass ,m = 22 kg

Angular speed ω = 40 rev/min

$\omega=\dfrac{2\pi \times 40}{60}\ rad/s$

ω =4.18 rad/s

The radius r= 1.25 m

We know that centripetal force is given as

F=m ω² r

Now by putting the values in the above equation we get

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