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Experiencing Acceleration: The backward force you feel whenyour car accelerates is caused by your body's inertia.
Chapter 3.3
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Feeling of apparent weight: Caused your body's reaction to the push that the seat is exerting to push your body forwardwhen being accelerated.
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Astronauts at take off feel as if their apparent weight has increased by 200 to 400 percent depending on the accelerationof the vehicle by the launch rockets.
A rocket ship orbiting the earth in a circular orbit is fallingtowards the earth (centripetal acceleration), so is the astronaut.There is no net force the astronaut feels with respect to the spaceship – he is weightless !
Artificial gravity can be generated in a space ship by spinning itrapidly.
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Acceleration in circular motion:
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� Uniform circular motion occurs when an object moves in a circular path with a constant speed
� An acceleration exists since the direction of the motion is changing � This change in velocity is related to an acceleration
� The velocity vector is always tangent to the path of the object
In such motion, the object has a constant angular velocity with respect to its axis of rotation. The relation betweenits linear velocity and its angular velocity is
Linear speed = radius x angular speed Angular speed = (2 pi radians) / (period of revolution)
��2�T
and v�R�
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Changing Velocity in Uniform Circular Motion
� The change in the velocity vector is due to the change in direction
� The vector diagram shows ∆v = vf - vi
angle turned :���� sr
distance covered:� s�v� t
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Centripetal acceleration: �ac���v� t
the change in �v is due to the angle turned:��
and ��v�v�� in magnitude
Now we can express :���� sr
Where � s is the arc length covered in � t which is � s�v� t
hence ac��v� t
�v��
� t�v
� sr� t
which is �vr� s� t
using � s� t
�v
we get ac�v2
r
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Centripetal Acceleration
� The acceleration is always perpendicular to the path of the motion
� The acceleration always points toward the center of the circle of motion
� This acceleration is called the centripetal acceleration -towards the center.
ac�v2
r
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� The magnitude of the centripetal acceleration vector is given by
� The direction of the centripetal acceleration vector is always changing, to stay directed toward the center of the circle of motion
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Centripetal Force: F c�Mv2
rDirected towards the center.
Making a tight high speed turn involves lots of accelerationand a large centripetal force.
Direction of centripetal force is continuously changing althoughits magnitude is a constant for uniform circular motion.
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� This is an example of an inverse square law� The magnitude of the force varies as the
inverse square of the separation of the particles
� The law can also be expressed in vector form
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
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M 1
M 2
�R1 to 2
�F 21
�F12
�F12�� �F 21
Magnitude F12�F 21�GM1 M 2
R2
Where R is the magnitude of �R12 or �R21
This is an example of a centrally directed force.
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Earth does not collapse under its own gravity because outward atomic forces balance the inward gravitational forces
Sun does not collapse because the hydrostatic pressure of its gases, which are at high temperature, balance the inwardpull of gravity. The source of energy which provides thesehigh temperatures is nuclear reactions at the center of the sunwhich transform 4 Hydrogen nuclei into one Helium nucleus.
Neutron stars ( stars with nuclear densities) are prevented fromcollapsing by quantum pressure.
Next we estimate some centripetal accelerations of celestial bodiesmoving in nearly circular orbits: the moon around the earth and theearth around the sun.
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Centripetal Acceleration� The Moon
experiences a centripetal acceleration as it orbits the Earth
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Mean distance of moon from earth: Rm�384 404 km�3.84 108 m
period of revolution T�29 days�29 x 86400 s�2.5106
Centripetal acceleration of the moon ac�4�2 Rm
2
T 2 Rm
�2.44 10�3 m s�2
Similar calculation for pull of the Sun on earth
distance ' R�1.44 1010 m Period of revolution T�3e7 sacceleration�6.3110�4 m s�2
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Racing car in a circular track of radius = 500 m
Speed of the racing car 150 mph = 66.7 m/s^2
Acceleration = 8.89 m/s^2 !!
Why does the racing car track have to be 'banked' ?
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What provides the centripetalforce ? Friction, because if there was no friction boy would not goaround in a circle. The boy ' feels ' a fictitious forceoutwards.
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