What does UCM stand for?
Uniform Circular Motion
What is the centripetal acceleration on a ball moving in a 1m vertical circle that has a period of 1s?
If you move further from the earth's surface what happens to the acceleration due to gravity?
It gets lower
What is the force of gravity of a 10kg object that is at seas level?
98 N
What is the FBD for a ball rotating in a vertical circle at the bottom of it's path?
What are the two names Drag force is also known as?
Air Resistance or Air Friction
Star Wars: A New Hope
Atlanta
What stays constant during UCM?
Tangential Velocity
A ventilation fan has blades 0.25 m long rotating at 20 rpm. What is the tangential velocity of each blade tip?
0.52 m/s
What is Newton's Universal law of gravitation?
Planet Z is 10,000 km in diameter. The acceleration due to gravity on Planet Z is 8.0 m/s2.
What is the mass of Planet Z?
3*1024 kg
What is the FBD for a ball rotating in a vertical circle at the top of it's path?
What two forces must be equal for a an object to be at terminal velocity?
Drag force and Force of Gravity
Wizard of Oz
Boston
What are 3 examples of forces that can cause centripetal motion?
Normal, Friction, gravity, etc. or a combination of these forces
A 0.40 kg object is swung in a circular path and in a vertical plane on a 0.5 m length string. If the tangential velocity at the bottom is 4.0 m/s, what is the tension in the string when the object is at the bottom of the circle?
16.7 N
If your mass is doubled what happens to your gravitational force?
it doubles
Two spheres with mass mA= 800 kg and mB=600 kg are separated by 0.25 m. What is the net gravitational force (in both magnitude and direction) from them on a 2.0 kg sphere located 0.2 m away from A and 0.15 m away from B?
4.4x10-6 N
What is the FBD for a car going over the crest of a circular hill?
What are the two drag equations and when do you use each?
Fast and Furious (1)
Cairo, Egypt
What happens to the centripetal force on an object if it moves twice as fast?
The centripetal force quadruples
A roller coaster, loaded with passengers, has a mass of 2000 kg; the radius of curvature of the track at the bottom point of the dip is 24 m. If the vehicle has a speed of 18 m/s at this point, what force is exerted on the vehicle by the track?
4.66 * 104 N
If your distance from earth is tripled and your mass is halved what happens to your gravitational force?
1/18th as much
A 50 kg satellite circles planet Cruton every 6 hours. The magnitude of the gravitational force is 80 N. What is the mass of planet Cruton?
8.6*1024 kg
What is the FBD of a roller coaster car going through a vertical loop at the top of the loop?
A 3.00-g leaf is dropped from a height of 2.00 m above the ground. Assume the net downward force exerted on the leaf is F = mg - bv, where the drag factor is b = 0.0300 kg/s.
Calculate the terminal speed of the leaf.
0.98 m/s
The Dark Knight
Cape Town, South Africa
What is the normal force on a car going into the bottom of a circular hill?
A satellite is in a circular orbit about the Earth at a distance of one Earth radius above the surface. What is the velocity of the satellite?
5,600 m/s
If I am orbiting earth and then move to a higher orbit what happens to my velocity?
It decreases
A planet requires 300 Earth days to complete its circular orbit about its sun, which has a mass of 6.0 x 1030 kg. What is the orbital radius of the planet?
1.9*1011 m
What is the FBD for a mint sitting on rotating turntable?
A 0.142-kg baseball has a terminal speed of 42.5 m/s. If a baseball experiences a drag force of magnitude
FD = Cv2, what is the value of the constant C?
7 * 10-4
2001 A Space Odyssey
Melbourne, Australia