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Chapter 12: Q. 7 (page 330)
The three masses shown in FIGURE EX12.7 are connected by massless, rigid rods. What are the coordinates of the center of mass?
The coordinates of the center of mass are
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Force is exerted on a particle at . What is the torque on the particle about the origin?
The earth鈥檚 rotation axis, which is tilted 23.5颅 from the plane of the earth鈥檚 orbit, today points to Polaris, the north star. But Polaris has not always been the north star because the earth, like a spinning gyroscope, precesses. That is, a line extending along the earth鈥檚 rotation axis traces out a 23.5颅 cone as the earth precesses with a period of 26,000 years. This occurs because the earth is not a perfect sphere. It has an equatorial bulge, which allows both the moon and the sun to exert a gravitational torque on the earth. Our expression for the precession frequency of a gyroscope can be written 惟=饾湉/蠅. Although we derived this equation for a specific situation, it鈥檚 a valid result, differing by at most a constant close to 1, for the precession of any rotating object. What is the average gravitational torque on the earth due to the moon and the sun?
A 75 g, 30-cm-long rod hangs vertically on a frictionless, horizontal axle passing through its center. A 10 g ball of clay traveling horizontally at 2.5 m/s hits and sticks to the very
bottom tip of the rod. To what maximum angle, measured from vertical, does the rod (with the attached ball of clay) rotate?
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