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It shows an accelerometer, a device for measuring the horizontal acceleration of cars and airplanes. A ball is free to roll on a parabolic rack described by the equation, where both and are in meters. A scale along the bottom is used to measure the ball's horizontal position.

a. Find an expression that allows you to use a measured position to compute the acceleration. (For example, is a possible expression.)

b. What is the acceleration if x=20cm?

Short Answer

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(a) An expression that allows to use measured the acceleration is a=2g

(b) The acceleration ofx=20cmisa=3.92m/s2

Step by step solution

01

Friction Force (part a)

(a) Let's draw a free body diagram when the system is accelerating.

It is crucial to state that there is no friction, since a friction force, due to the discontinuity at the maximum , would not allow for a continuous measurement spectrum

Having drawn the free body diagram, we can project to the vertical and horizontal axes and have:

ncos-FG=0n=FGcos=mgcos

nsin=maa=nsinm

Substituting, we have

a=mgcossinm=gtan

The key to solving is realizing that the tangent of our angle tanis equal to the slope of the line tangent to the y=x2urve at the same point. The latter is easily determined, as one remembers from calculus, as

Combining, we have

Please note that we can't perform dimensional analysis on this result.

the acceleration will be

(b) Ifx=0.2

a=29.80.2=3.92m/s2


02

Tangent to the Curve (part b)

If you are not sure why the angle between nand the vertical axis is equal to the angle between the line tangent to the curve and the x- axis,consider the close-up below.

1+1=90Since nis perpendicular to the surface and the line is tangent to this surface. Therefore we have 1=90-1. On the other hand, 1=2as opposite angles. But 2=90-2since they are both in the same right triangle. Therefore,

1=2

In the first sketch both angles were denoted by

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