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A ball of unknown mass mis attached to a spring. In outer space, far from other objects, you hold the other end of the spring and swing the ball around in a circle of radius 1.5 mat constant speed.

(a) You time the motion and observe that going around 10times takes 6.88 s. What is the speed of the ball?

(b) Is the momentum of the ball changing or not? How can you tell?

(c) If the momentum is changing, what interaction is causing it to change? If the momentum is not changing, why isn't it?

(d) The relaxed length of the spring is 1.2m, and its stiffness is 1000 N/m. While you are swinging the ball, since the radius of the circle is 1.5m, the length of the spring is also 1.5m.What is the magnitude of the force that the spring exerts on the ball?

(e) What is the mass mof the ball?

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(a)The speed of the ball is 13.70 m/s

(b)The momentum's magnitude does not change, but its direction does.

(c)The perpendicular force applied to the ball causes the momentum to change direction.

(d)The magnitude of the force is 300N

(e)The mass of the ball is 2.40 Kg

Step by step solution

01

Given

An unknown mass is attached to a spring. In outer space, far from other objects, you hold the other end of the spring and swing the ball around in a circle of radius at constant speed.

02

Define speed and momentum

The magnitude of an object's rate of change of position with time, or the magnitude of change of position per unit of time, is its speed; it is thus a scalar quantity. The magnitude of the velocity is called speed. The product of mass and velocity is called momentum. This means that speed is a scalar quantity while momentum is a vector quantity

03

(a) Find the speed of the ball

When the time for 10 round is 6.88 s, then for one round the time will be:

t=6.88s/round10round=0.688s

The change in distance over time is the speed. As a result, it is provided by

v=dt …………………… (1)

The ball moves above the diameter of a circle as it travels through one round. The circumference is calculated using

2Ï€¸é

Where is the circle's radius. As a result, the ball's travel distance is

d=2Ï€¸é

To get the new form, enter the expression into equation (1).

v=2Ï€¸ét

Now we can insert our and numbers into equation (2) to calculate the engineer's speed.

v=2Ï€¸ét=2Ï€(1.5m)0.688s=13.70m/s

The speed of the ball is13.70m/s

04

(b) Determine change of the momentum

The net force on an object is equal to the rate of change of momentum and can be written as the sum of two parts. The parallel rate of change of momentum dp→dt||and the perpendicular rate of change of momentum dp→dt⊥are the two elements that we are concerned with. As a result, the net force on the object is provided by Fnet.

Fnet=dp→dt=dp→dt||+dp→dt⊥

The parallel rate of change of momentum affects the ball's speed, and since the speed is constant, the parallel rate is zero and equal to the rate of change of the size of the momentum.

dp→dt||=0

As a result, the rate change is the direction change due to the perpendicular rate of change. At speeds much slower than the speed of light, the net force applied on the ball equals the rate change of momentum, and the magnitude of the perpendicular rate change is given by

Fnet=dp→dt⊥

The momentum's magnitude does not change, but its direction does.

05

(c) Determine the interaction to change the momentum

The perpendicular force applied to the ball causes the momentum to change direction.

Fnet=F⊥=dp→dt⊥

The perpendicular force applied to the ball causes the momentum to change direction.

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Step 6:(d) Find the magnitude of the force

The spring's tension force FTis given by,

FT=kx ……………………. (2)

Where represents the spring's stiffness (Force per unit length) and is 1000 N/m, and represents the cord's stretched length or elongation. And it's equal to the difference between the spring's starting length (relaxed length) L and its ultimate length after R elongation, which we can figure out by,

x=R-L=1.5m-1.2m=0.3m

To solve the equation (2) for k by plugging in our and values.

FT=kx=(1000N/m)(0.3m)=300N

The magnitude of the force is 300 N.

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(e) Find the mass of the ball

The centrifugal force exerted on the ball is caused by the tension force calculated in component (d), where the rate change is the change in direction owing to the perpendicular rate of change. At speeds far slower than the speed of light, the amount of the perpendicular rate change matches the rate change of the direction of the momentum.

FT=dp→dt=mv2R …………………….. (3)

Where denotes the ball's mass. To get , we can solve equation (3) for and plug in the values for FT, v, and R.

m=RFTv2=(1.5m)(3000N)(13.70m/s)2=2.40kg

The mass of the ball is 2.40Kg.

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