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In traveling to the Moon, astronauts aboard the Apollo spacecraft put the spacecraft into a slow rotation to distribute the Sun’s energy evenly (so one side would not become too hot). At the start of their trip, they accelerated from no rotation to 1.0 revolution every minute during a 12-min time interval. Think of the spacecraft as a cylinder with a diameter of 8.5 m rotating about its cylindrical axis. Determine (a) the angular acceleration, and (b) the radial and tangential components of the linear acceleration of a point on the skin of the ship 6.0 min after it started this acceleration.

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The result for part (a) is\(1.44 \times {10^{ - 4}}\;{\rm{rad/}}{{\rm{s}}^{\rm{2}}}\) , and those of part (b) are\(0.011\;{\rm{m/}}{{\rm{s}}^2}\) and \(6.12 \times {10^{ - 4}}\;{\rm{m/}}{{\rm{s}}^2}\),respectively.

Step by step solution

01

Given data

The revolutions per minute are\(N = 1\;{\rm{rev/min}}\).

The time interval is\(t = 12\;{\rm{min}}\).

The diameter of the cylinder is\(D = 8.5\;{\rm{m}}\).

The time after acceleration starts at \({t_0} = 6\;{\rm{min}}\).

02

Understanding acceleration

In this problem, for the evaluation of the components of the acceleration on the outer skin, use the kinematic relation between angular speed and the radius of the cylinder.

03

Determine the angular acceleration

The relation to find the angular acceleration is given by:

\(\alpha = \frac{{{\omega _2} - {\omega _1}}}{t}\)

Here, \({\omega _1}\) and \({\omega _1}\) are the initial and final angular velocities, where the initial angular velocity is equivalent to zero.

On plugging the values in the above relation, you get:

\(\begin{aligned}{l}\alpha &= \left( {\frac{{\left( {1\;{\rm{rev/min}} \times \frac{{2\pi \;{\rm{rad}}}}{{1\;{\rm{rev}}}} \times \frac{{1\;{\rm{min}}}}{{60\;{\rm{s}}}}} \right) - 0}}{{\left( {12\;{\rm{min}} \times \frac{{60\;{\rm{s}}}}{{1\;{\rm{min}}}}} \right)}}} \right)\\\alpha &= \left( {\frac{{\left( {0.104\;{\rm{rad/s}}} \right)}}{{\left( {720\;{\rm{s}}} \right)}}} \right)\\\alpha &= 1.44 \times {10^{ - 4}}\;{\rm{rad/}}{{\rm{s}}^{\rm{2}}}\end{aligned}\)

Thus, \(\alpha = 1.44 \times {10^{ - 4}}\;{\rm{rad/}}{{\rm{s}}^{\rm{2}}}\) is the angular acceleration.

04

Determine the instantaneous angular velocity

The relation to find the angular velocity is given by:

\(\begin{aligned}{l}{\omega _0} &= {\omega _1} + \alpha {t_0}\\{\omega _0} &= \left( 0 \right) + \left( {1.44 \times {{10}^{ - 4}}\;{\rm{rad/}}{{\rm{s}}^2}} \right)\left( {6\;{\rm{min}} \times \frac{{60\;{\rm{s}}}}{{1\;{\rm{min}}}}} \right)\\{\omega _0} &= 0.051\;{\rm{rad/s}}\end{aligned}\)

The relation to find the radial acceleration is given by:

\(\begin{aligned}{l}{a_{\rm{r}}} = {\omega _0}^2r\\{a_{\rm{r}}} = {\omega _0}^2\left( {\frac{D}{2}} \right)\end{aligned}\)

05

Determine the radial and tangential components of acceleration

On plugging the values in the above relation, you get:

\(\begin{aligned}{l}{a_{\rm{r}}} &= {\left( {0.051\;{\rm{rad/s}}} \right)^2}\left( {\frac{{8.5\;{\rm{m}}}}{2}} \right)\\{a_{\rm{r}}} &= 0.011\;{\rm{m/}}{{\rm{s}}^2}\end{aligned}\)

The relation to find the tangential acceleration is given by:

\(\begin{aligned}{l}{a_{\rm{t}}} = \alpha r\\{a_{\rm{t}}} = \alpha \left( {\frac{D}{2}} \right)\end{aligned}\)

On plugging the values in the above relation, you get:

\(\begin{aligned}{l}{a_{\rm{t}}} &= \left( {1.44 \times {{10}^{ - 4}}\;{\rm{rad/}}{{\rm{s}}^2}} \right)\left( {\frac{{8.5\;{\rm{m}}}}{2}} \right)\\{a_{\rm{t}}} &= 6.12 \times {10^{ - 4}}\;{\rm{m/}}{{\rm{s}}^2}\end{aligned}\)

Thus, \({a_{\rm{r}}} = 0.011\;{\rm{m/}}{{\rm{s}}^2}\) and \({a_{\rm{t}}} = 6.12 \times {10^{ - 4}}\;{\rm{m/}}{{\rm{s}}^2}\) are the radial and tangential acceleration.

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