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You鈥檝e taken your neighbor鈥檚 young child to the carnival to ride the rides. She wants to ride The Rocket. Eight rocket-shaped cars hang by chains from the outside edge of a large steel disk. A vertical axle through the center of the ride turns the disk, causing the cars to revolve in a circle. You鈥檝e just finished taking physics, so you decide to figure out the speed of the cars while you wait. You estimate that the disk is 5m in diameter and the chains are 6m long. The ride takes 10s to reach full speed, then the cars swing out until the chains are 20 from vertical. What is the cars鈥 speed?

Short Answer

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The car's speed is4m/s.

Step by step solution

01

Given Information

The ride takes 10sto reach full speed, then the cars swing out until the chains are 20 from vertical.

02

Explanation 

The disk rotates and makes the chair move a distance dsinfrom the disk. So, the chair rotates in an orbital radius

r=rdisk+Lsin

Where Lis the length of wire. and rdiskis the radius of the disk. Plug the values for rdisk,, and Lto get r

r=rdisk+Lsin=2.5m+(6m)sin20=4.54m
03

Explanation

Now, we analyze the situation by draw a free body diagram for the problem. In the horizontal axis the centripetal force which is given by equation (8.6) acts on the chair in opposite direction to the horizontal component of tension force Tsin, so the net force in thex-direction is

Fx=Tsin-Fc

Fx=Tsin-mv2r

0=Tsin-mv2r

Tsin=mv2r

In the vertical axis, the chair is under two forces Tcosand mg. so the net force in the y-direction on mis

Fy=Tcos-mg

Tcos=mg
04

Explanation

Our target is to find the velocity v, so we can divide equation (1) by (2) to find an expression for v

TsinTcos=mv2/rmg

tan=v2gr

v=rgtan

05

Explanation

Now, plug the values for r,gand into equation (3) to get v

v=rgtan

=(4.54m)9.8m/s2tan20

=4m/s

06

Final Answer

The car's speed is4m/s.

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