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Chapter 15: 56 - Excercises And Problems (page 418)

Orangutans can move by brachiation, swinging like a pendulum beneath successive handholds. If an orangutan has arms that are 0.90 m long and repeatedly swings to a 20掳 angle, taking one swing after another, estimate its speed of forward motion in m/s. While this is somewhat beyond the range of validity of the small-angle approximation, the standard results for a pendulum are adequate for making an estimate.

Short Answer

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The speed of the pendulum will approximately 0.65m/s.

Step by step solution

01

Given information

Given in the question that the Orangutan swing like simple pendulum with length of the simple pendulum L=0.90m and at an angle=20

02

Write the equation of time period and speed for simple pendulum 

The length of the Orangutan arms is Apply the equation to find the period T of a simple pendulum of length L. It is given by,

T=2Lg

The angle of swinging of the orangutan is =20. The Orangutan is modeled as a pendulum.

Where g is the acceleration due to gravity. Notice that the period of a simple pendulum depends only on its length and on the magnitude of the gravitational constant. It does not depend on the mass of the object hanging at its end or the amplitude of vibration.

The average speed of particle is equal to the ratio of the total distance it travels to the total interval during which it travels that distance:

v(avg)=dt

03

Apply the given values of L and θ in the formula for time period of the pendulum

T=2Lg

Substitute the known values of L and ,

T=20.90m9.8m/s
=1.904s

The time taken by the orangutan to move from one end to another end will be half of the time period.

Therefore,

t=T2=1.904s2=0.952s

04

Apply the expression of speed

Therefore, the speed of the pendulum will be approximately,

v=dt=2Lsin200.952s=2(0.9m)sin200.952s

=0.647m/s=0.65m/s

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